Susanna Castiello
Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design - Class of 2015 GSAPP - Columbia University in the City of New York
s.castiello@columbia.edu
Table of Content Urban Design Studio I MICROVENTION: The BIG Picture of MICRO Units Made in Home
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Urban Design Studio II American Cities – St. Louis Trail of 2 Cities
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Urban Design Studio III TransitCulture: Transit and Culture Oriented Development
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Reading New York Urbanism Lighten Up
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Open Cartographies
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Urban Preconfiguration: NY/Global
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MICROVENTION MICRO The BIG Picture of SMALL Units
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO I
Group work: Castiello Susanna / Jian Yuxiang / Sharma Parul / Viteri Filiberto / Xu Long
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Micro Units are small apartments, usually with an area between 250 and 400 square feet. They feature a flexible space that works as a living and a bedroom at the same time, a bathroom and a kitchenette. Because of their size, for the rest of the spaces, they rely on common and shared facilities.
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(Zoning Resolution ยง 28-21)
Size of Dwelling Units
(Zoning Resolution ยง 23-22)
Maximum Number of Dwelling Units
Minimum Size of Regular Dwelling Units
Micro Units
Lot Coverage(max)= 45% 44,000 X 45%= 19,800 SQFT
Factor of R4 is 900 39, 600/ 900= 44 Units
FAR= 0.75+ Attic Allowance=0.9 44,000 X 90%= 39,600 SQFT
Area of Max Micro Unit is 400 SQFT 39, 600/ 400= 99 Units
Up to 20% in the max FAR for pitched roof - Two-story Unit Attic Allowance
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In R7 district, the Max FAR is 3.44
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More Floors 22,068/ 6953= 4 Floor More Units 22,068/ 400= 55 Units
Manhattan
Get FAR 2.02, From Surrounding Lots
Where CAN THE MICRO-UNIT LIVE IN NYC? HOW AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Mitchell-Lama Policy
REZONING: From M1 to R4
If developers build housing with limits on profits, rents and residents’ income, the city and state will provide low-interest mortgages, tax breaks and other subsidies to them
Migrants in transition
WHY
to increase density WHO
STATEN ISLAND - PORT RICHMOND
WHAT
to supply the needs for a new increasing population WHAT
HOW AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY
Students Elderly people
WHY
WHO
MANHATTAN - INWOOD
Inclusionary Zoning Policy (80% MFI)
20 min walk from THE BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE Area with high amount of elderly people
If developers set aside 20% of the units for families at 80% MFI, they can have tax breaks and build a 33% larger building HOW AFFORDABILITY STRATEGY Policy 421A (60% of MFI)
Community amenities shared between different others micro units buildings
Young professionals Workers
WHY
209 Illegal ADUs WHO
BROOKLYN - EAST NEW YORK
WHAT
Micro Units could regularize the illegal dwelling units GSAPP - Columbia University in the City of New York
If developers buy city owned vacant lots and build 20% affordable housing, they gets incentive of paying tax on it as if it were still vacant land
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MADE IN HOME Looking at the data, the first thing that appears is the big amount of missed opportunities that East New York can offer, starting from the IBZ zone, with a manufacturing that changes year after year. The big demand for jobs and the high density of homeless families in the area are the starting point of the “Factory housing� project that aims to redesign part of the IBZ zone to create a MX zone, in which housings, micro factories and social services are combined in the same blocks.The idea is to strengthen the sense of community, increase the job opportunities, reinforce the social services network already available in the area and create supportive, affordable and market rate housing. This allows for upward mobility for the low income and homeless people from ENY. The top-down pilot project is applied to three city own blocks and combines manufacturing, housing and social services. From that, we established four design guidelines that set buildings height (FAR), density, types of manufacturing, location of social services and supportive housing and public spaces among others. In a long term scenario, following the guidelines, we expect different private developments for some selected blocks that can further increase the social cycle
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO I
Group work: Qian Qi / Susanna Castiello / Tzu-Yi Chuang / Yeeun Kwon
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ENY TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
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Plastic & Chemicals Electronics Machinery & Equipment Furniture & Wood Printing & Paper Food & Beverage Secondary Manufacture Miscellaneous
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SUBWAY SUBWAY STATION ROAD
HEALTH TRUCK
SICKNESS AND DISEASE LOW
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LUNG CANCER risk; Chemical Bulk Storage Facilities and Vehicle Dismantlers can produce a certain amount of chemical release, as well as automotive fluids, spent refrigerant, mercury switches, lead-acid batteries, and air bags. Neighborhoods from a certain socioeconomic status near factories, sanitation transfer stations and busy roadways produce high levels of air pollution. Poor housing conditions in stressed communities from encounters with vermin, roaches and mold, show high
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ASTHMA risk.
GREAT ACCESSIBILITY
STRONG SENSE OF COMMUNITY
ENHANCED INDUSTRY
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business zones in NYC
Percentage of workers age 18 & over employed in low-wage jobs in Brooklyn, the highest in all NYC
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INDUSTRY + RESIDENCE WITH MX ZONING
HOW AMERICAN MANUFACTURING HAS CHANGED?
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EXPECTED INFLOW FOR JOB FROM OUTSIDE OF ENY
Today the typical industrial zone is completely separated from the residential area but we envision a future where housing zones are integrated within the smaller, cleaner and more affordable industries that are already emerging. In our vision social services represent the glue that connects housing and factories inside the entire ENY Industrial Business Zone. By developing new housing around the IBZ we create a virtuous cycle that reinforces the strengths of the area: a strong sense of community and enhanced industries. In other words, the more we invest in mixing industries with housing the more we strengthen the sense of community and the inflow of jobs from outside the IBZ. Factory housing can be a new type of housing project that is embedded with the industrial space thanks to the support offered by existing and new social services.
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STREET 52% UNITS
SHELTER
Existing SUPPORTIVE HOUSING SOCIAL SERVICES + WORK
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL + RESIDENCES AFFORDABLE HOUSING 27% UNITS
BROADWAY JUNCTION
New MARKET RATE HOUSING
21% UNITS
New SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
NYCHA PROPERTIES
HEAVY INDUSTRIAL
LIGHT INDUSTRIAL
Connection to the city
52,6%
PROPOSED AFFORDABILITY
80% AMI
130% AMI
MARKET
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2035
57% 5.8%
ENY residences
The residents of the factory housing can afford the opportunity of self-sustainability, through the difINFLOW ferent scale of the new industry. large number FROMAOUTSIDE OF ENY of new job positions will be created in the large OUTFLOW manufacturing, and the residents can start local FROM ENY business with their own products as a co-operLIVING AND ation with the micro factory PEOPLE on a medium WORKING IN ENY scale, and thay could even have small business with the home workshops on smaller scale. We propose different types of affordability for the residents of the different AMI, from homeless families to the average income families. Based on the existing condition of the industrial facilities in different scales, we can offer social services and workplaces with the supportive housing, and then suggest them to move into affordable housing with the new industry. Finally, we envision this neighborhood to increase the number of affordability and market-rate housin. Compared to the present predominant outflow of workforce, the new factory housing can grape job flows with the new industry, and increase the number of people who live and work in the same neighborhood.
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ENY residences
JOBS + RESIDENCES
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60% AMI
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Connection to the city
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Focusing on three adjacent city own blocks in the center of IBZ, will be possible to have top-down approaches with the Pilot project? Can this public development shows new opportunity and attract investments?
2014 TOP-DOWN Pilot project Public development
Industries
Residential Social Services
Private ownership to take part of the changing of the industries on their own lots as a bottom-up approach.
Residential Industries
BOTTOM-UP Public development 2025
Social Services
CITY OWN LAND
DESIGN GUIDELINES In 10 years
ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES
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We created 4 design guidelines for the affordable housing, manufacturing, social services and public spaces. For the affordable housing guideline, the distance from the 3 subway stations will impact on the building heights, density and affordability. Based on this gradient guide, developments can create their own mixed-use buildings, combining different ratio of functions. There are some housing typology that can potentially fit in our housing guidelines.
HIGHRISE RESIDENCE TOWER 500 to 999
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MIDDLE RISE RESIDENCE WITH AMENITIES ON THE BOTTOM
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LOWRISE HOUSING WITH COURTYARD
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PRIVATE OWN LAND
MANUFACTURING GUIDELINES
large
For manufactory, we’ll create a new circulation system for the trucks, also connected to the new Freight Station. These gray streets as a new infrastructure will not only separate the heavy traffic from the pedestrian streets but will also create a gradient guide for the different sizes of industry. If the lot is next to the gray street, it can have a bigger size factory. If it is far from it, it can have lighter and small-scale industry, such as home workshops, micro factories, where the custom-made production needs more individual transportation.
LARGE INDUSTRY FACTORY/WAREHOUSE
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MEDIUM INDUSTRY MICRO FACTORY
SMALL INDUSTRY HOME WORKSHOP
SOCIAL SERVICES GUIDELINES (INSTITUTION CORRIDOR)
CLOSE
Social Services corridor will link the original institutions in the area and will control different percentages of social services in the area. These corridors will transform the industrial zone into a new training hub in ENY. In this places, residents can learn new skills and share their knowledge. Furthermore, homeless people can use this facility to learn new skills.
SERVICE AREA
FAR
ADJACENT FACILITY
COMMUNITY AMENITY
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OPEN SPACES GUIDELINES (INFLOW CORRIDOR)
boulevard
In Public Space guidelines, the lot that is closer to the Inflow corridor needs to setback more and to provide more open spaces for public uses.
LINEAR PARK / COURTYARD
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FREIGHT STATION INDUSTRIAL PARK
SETBACK / BIKELANE
PARAMETRIC FAR CODE Overlapping these four design guidelines, it will be possible to create a new parametric code for the micro-scale planning, mixing three different programs together at different locations in the IBZ and to introduce a new way for the private owners to develop this neighborhood as well.
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FACTORY HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Based on this parametric FAR code, we placed 10 typologies, including housing, social services and industrial units.
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These are three examples of typologies which represent different priority of the FAR Chart. Using the three spatial zoning, we will have different approaches to embed housing and industries, and then consider the circulation of pedestrians and trucks. GSAPP - Columbia University in the City of New York
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WILLIAMS AVE PENNSYLVANIA AVE
HELP WOMEN CENTER NEW FREIGHT STATION PITKIN AVE PILOT PROJECT
NYCHA
PILOT PROJECT 2020 MASTERPLAN We focus on one of the locations that is adjacent to three city owned blocks on Pitkin Ave, in the center of the IBZ. As a five year plan, we will develop the factory housing complex and the new freight station as a pilot project to enhance industries and afford housing with a top-down approach. In the pilot project, Pitkin Ave is the green corridor, connecting the factory housing complex and the NYCHA properties to enhance its residence friendly open spaces and the streetscape. Then, Glenmore St and Belmont St will be set as grey corridors from Pennsylvania Ave to new freight station. This will allow the truck traffic and the loading docks for the products distribuition. Also, based on the existing institutions such as public schools and social services, Williams Ave will be set as the blue corridor, right to left of the pilot site. The effect on the site will be to have more concentrated social services along Williams Ave.
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TYPOLOGY AXON These three adjacent city owned blocks offer five new mix used towers and one existing factory with different affordable housing units and different scale of factories, based on our FAR Chart analysis.
TOWER 1 60/6/1 UNITS
TOWER 2 30/0/15 UNITS TOWER 4 25/10/15 UNITS
HOUSING
TOWER 5 15/28/15 UNITS
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AFFORDABLE HOUSING MARKET RATE HOUSING SOCIAL SERVICE HOMELESS SHELTER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER
TOWER 3 20/5/16 UNITS
CORRIDOR 0/12/52 UNITS EXISTING FACTORY
JOB TRAINING CENTER FACTORY MICRO FACTORY WORKSHOP MANUFACTORY
UNIT TYPOLOGY
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Sidewalk extensions and pedestrian lanes will provide a safer street. Paved lanes, cafes seatings and traffic lights, combined with street lamps and so on, are all part of the components of a completed street.
Dedicated Bike Lane Sidewalk Extension
Street Trees & Landscaping Pedestrian Refuge
Ecological Stormwater Planter
GREY STREET SECTION In the gray street design, we consider large trucks carrying the heavy loads. Sidewalks be provided on one side of the street, while the other side will be the loading zone for trucks. Building will be setback of 65 feet to allow the loading decks. Shrub will be planted as a buffer. Higher street lamps will be provided in this street. Warehouse will be located on the gray streets for an easy loading. GREEN ROOF
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
GREEN ROOF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER ROOF GREENHOUSE
MANUFACTORY GREEN ROOF TRUCK LOADING ZONE
SHOWROOM
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PEDESTRIAN STREET JOB TRAINING CENTER
SHRUB
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WORKSHOP WAREHOUSE
GREEN STREET SECTION
On the green street section, we want to complete the streets by adding bike lines, street trees and a storm water management system, seatings areas and energy efficient pedestrian streetlights. Any buildings will be set back of 20 feet for wider sidewalks andthis will allow the creation of a public open space in front of the building. The design of the pilot project is entirely based on the guidelines. The entrance of the new housing will be located on the green street, as well as the showrooms and job-training centers. Large-scale manufactory is placed on the ground floor, while the mid-size manufactory is located on the second and third floor. Workshops will combine supportive housing and affordable housing located on the other floors. Roof gardens will also enhance interaction between people.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
MANUFACTORY
PARK
AFFORDABLE HOUSING TREES
MARKETRATE HOUSING
ROOF OPEN SPACE
ROOF COURTYARD
WAREHOUSE MANUFACTORY
SIDEWALK LOBBY
SHOWROOM MANUFACTORY
BIKE LANE
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER
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ST. LOUIS
ANOTHER KIND OF ‘RICHNESS’ The City Government had precise responsibilities for the disparity among different ethnicities. The urban sprawl and the consequent shrinking city created an even more strong division inside the city and the county. The North area, opposite to the “Happy Island” in the suburbs, is lacking of opportunities, jobs, open spaces, and access to healthy food. It has, instead, a big amount of crime rates, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, dismissed factories and a huge amount of social services. The Government should use the ”opportunity area” to regenerate the North of St. Louis.
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A TRAIL OF 2 CITIES The project looks at strengthening the links between Newburgh and Beacon by treating it as one entity that could be mutually benecial and developed as a regional attractor. This sister city network would foster new revenue and employment and be a stimulus for Newburgh’s development. Beacon enjoys an annual average of 75,000 tourists visiting Dia:Beacon and a great number of passengers use the Metro North Station on a daily basis. Our project looks at tapping into, and growing, the tourist and younger population who might enjoy the historic resources and unique experience that Newburgh and “the other side” of the river has to oer. Our project sees the Hudson River as a connector rather than as a divider, and it can reinforce the historic connection between the two cities. Simultaneously we will address the barriers that Newburgh and Beacon possess individually, in order to promote strengthened connections related to their infrastructure, landscape and economic development patterns.
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO II
Group work: Jenny Cadena Molina / Susanna Castiello / Qian Qi / Parul Sharma
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The project draws on the existing tourism activity and economy of the Hudson River Valley, including Storm King and Dia: Beacon, in order to leverage both Newburgh and Beacon as a combined regional asset. The proposal is based on a public-private partnership model and envisions the Cities of Newburgh and Beacon and the MTA working with the private sector to catalyze new waterfront developments along both sides of the Hudson River. GSAPP - Columbia University in the City of New York
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COMMUNITY/CULTURAL DINING AND NIGHTLIFE TRANSPORTATION
NEWBURGH PUBLIC LIBRARY
VISIBILITY POINTS ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE MUSEUM CONNECTION TO THE INNER CITY AND THE AIRPORT
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Fare
FERRY SERVICE: A CATALYST FOR DEVELOPMENT
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Beacon
8 rides 37,603 passengers in 2013
Passengers per day (in 2013): 144 Earnings per ride at actual capacity (in 2013 with subsidies): $40.71
Passenger in the morning (full capacity): 894 Passenger in the evening (full capacity): 1194 Earnings per ride at full capacity (with subsidies): $590
Cost: $570 per hour (medium catamaran)
Travel time: 10min (one way)
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2020
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Max capacity: 149 Passengers per ride
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What keep this service in operation?
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Federal Formula Fundings
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Passengers per day: 250
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213,000 passengers in 2025
Passengers per day: 600
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Earnings per ride at actual capacity (with subsidies): $61.52
Fare
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Private Public
$940 million from State and local subsidies
$1 million Dollar Grant from FTA to reduce the gap between fares and costs
FTA Region (Allocated by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council)
Dutchess County transportation council
$500,000 to support ferry operations in 2010-2011 from FTA
Section 5307 for capital project
Public Private
Subsidy +
$1.75
$2.21
+4.9%
Weekends included
Newburgh
City tax revenue
Subsidy
NY STATE
Fare
Department of Environmental Conservation
2025
Earnings per ride at actual capacity (with subsidies): $70.71
12 rides 16 rides 337,250 passengers in 2030
Passengers per day: 950
Beacon
Higher real estate values also coincided with an increase in residential and commercial building space of over 4.9% within 1/4 mile
+8%
FERRY IMPACT Residential property values within 1/8 mile of the closest ferry stop
Source: The New York City Economic Development Corporation
Earnings per ride at actual capacity (with subsidies): $99
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By increasing awareness of Newburgh’s and the Hudson Valley’s past by linking existing historic, built and natural assets via mobile and digital platforms our project will generate public interest in both cities as a cultural hub. A public capital project investment in Newburgh would include an Industry Museum on the city’s long-vacant waterfront, traversing the freight line barrier between the riverfront and inner city. This initial investment would also include enhanced ferry services and building and an improved harbor and piers in both Beacon and Newburgh. With improved access across the Hudson and a destination “up the hill”, the city would be able to better promote the redevelopment of the entrance of Broadway to become more pedestrian and bike-friendly, with the addition of retail, cafes, and a digital library and exhibition space. This would be further connected with a new bike loop with pedestrian streetscape improvements between the two cities that would connect key destination such as
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the Washington Headquarters and the Brewery in Newburgh, and Dia:Beacon and the Metro North Station in Beacon.
Mix-use: Residential + Commercial + community spaces PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT
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Waterfront restaurants
Ferry
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SISTER CITIES
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IMPROVEMENT OF
NEW DEVELOPMENT
Ferry increased schedule
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WATERFRONT ACCESS
ACCESS
patent medicines
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lawnmowers
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Community Development
Improved Connectivity
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Fishing pier
New Plaza: Seatings and passenger spaces Improved connection to Dia: Dia:Beacon
Increased ferry service Improvement of the pedestrian path
Scenic Hudson Dock Park
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Retail Recreate the human scale of the past
Grant to improve existing facades
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1st St.opened
Museum
Ferry station
Variety of stores and commercial activities
Mix-use: Residential + Commercial Max height: 3-4 floors to preserve the view of the Hudson River
Developers must provide a minimum of 10% of square footage for community spaces in order to have tax breaks Historical map Small plot size (max 32’ x 49’)
LANEWAY
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BEACON: ZONING AND GUIDELINES
Street: comfortable, safe and inviting for pedestrian
Narrow, shaded streets conducive to pedestrians and cyclists Cross cutting strategy
High degrees of internal connettivity
On street parking allowed for residents
17’ Mix-use: Offices + Commercial Variety of stores and commercial activities on the first floor
Mix-use: Residential + Commercial
4-5 stories
250’
Max height: 5 floors to preserve the view Buildings close to street at a pedestrian scale
Transit hub: Parking + bikes + car rental
Hotel
120’
Parking and garages placed behind buildings and away from street frontages
Public use areas Access to the station
Metro North station
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NEW PIERS AND PLAZA
TRAIL FROM THE STATION TO FISKILL CREEK
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TRANSITCULTURE
T ransit C ultural O riented D evelopment
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO III
TransitCulture is a development model that merges a strengthened social infrastructure with improved transit networks to revitalize Santa Cruz. It is an infill proposal that poses an alternative to the current government-led, green field development strategy that locates new housing in disconnected sites far from physical or social infrastructure.
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Santa Cruz’s 447 year history has imbued it with a rich cultural legacy, from the Jesuit canals, to the current vibrant community, with its unique lifestyle and its tradition. The neighborhood is characterized by a lively street life that spills from the sidewalks into the street day and night and involves both formal and informal activities across private and public spaces. The neighborhood has grown rapidly over the past 5 years prompting the construction of a BRT system in 2012. The introduction of this new mode of transit has improved the commute to other areas of the city in both time and quality. It has also, however, destroyed the train station plaza at the end of Rua Felipe Cardoso, a large cultural space with a strong identity that was formerly the site of the popular, historic carnival parade. Even without the Phisical plaza, the train station area remains essential to Santa Cruz’s urban core where the evolution of social infrastructure is deeply related to the evolution of transportation infrastructure. Santa Cruz’s rapid growth can be attributed to a number of factors including rising housing costs in Downtown Rio and low land costs at the western periphery. This has made Santa Cruz one of the main target areas for the Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) state housing program. Currently, MCMV developments are built outside of the urban center without proper transportation support and are completely disconnected from the social infrastructure of the city. We see the population influx into Santa Cruz as an opportunity to densify the urban core rather than building irresponsibly on vacant agricultural land. Rerouting the BRT creates a continuous transit loop that serves as a connective armature tying existing cultural elements together and triggering further cultural development. Revitalizing historical sites and diverting the BRT route will return lost pedestrian space to the community and attract additional investments along the new route. An enhanced cultural network coupled with Santa Cruz’s rich historical heritage would make it appealing to a mixed income population. The TransitCulture strategy seeks to build a series of neighborhoods in the center of Santa Cruz, each with a strong identity and an accessible transportation network. A series of new building typologies will be introduced to create living spaces on the street level paired with robust social activities. A re-envisioned MCMV that combines market rate with subsidized housing and allow flexibility within the units, the new developments would provide 15,000 units, 3,000 of which will be low income. The design focus will bring a balanced growth between population and cultural density. The social-infrastructure based development of TransitCulture will transform Santa Cruz bustling urban center poised to absorb the projected increase of 100,000 inhabitants in the next 5 years as well as catering to an increasing flow of tourists from regional neighborhoods.
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The first step will involve mainly the renovation of the cultural heritage in the center. This will be possible thanks to federal funds, allocated by the IPHAN, a federal agency under the Ministry of Culture or in partnership with private developers that will be able to build cultural facilities in exchange of additional FAR. On the second phase the train station frame will be implemented with mix use
development, with the creation of ramps to increase the north-south connectivity, and a new BRT station. At the same time on the densification frame a small scale armature will break down the big empty lots. On phase 3, through a government land policy support, mixed use units will be developed as an alternative to MCMV, while the empty lot next to the Cultural Center will serve as a reaching point for the linear park. A new
FELIPE CARDOSO Rd.
Tram service will be operated by SuperVia and will connect Santa Cruz train station to the city of Itaguai and to the industrial area. On phase 4 street scape and further private and public investments will occur along the new BRT route reinforcing the urban armature and creating a series of neighborhoods, increasing the cultural density in the area.
FELIPE CARDOSO Rd.
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CULTURAL DENSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO & LOCAL CULTURAL LIFE OF SANTA CRUZ
Residents 320,000 in 2015 (+100k from 2010)
Commuters 90,000 per day to Barra de Tijuca to Center
Festivals
Informal vendor
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Santa Cruz in characterized by a community that is growing really fast in the last few years.This happens mainly because several Rio residents were relocated to Santa Cruz from other neighborhoods through the Minha Casa Minha Vida housing program.The new BRT route system increased the quality of commuting from Santa Cruz. Is estimated that almost 90,000 passengers take the BRT every day, commuting mainly to Barra, neighborhood with a high concentration of leisure
Rio City Center
activities, shopping areas and work places. Due to long travel times of the BRT and the lacking of a direct connection to the center of Rio, many commuters use the train as a main mode of transportation. As the diagram shows, while the population is increasing mainly in the periphery, the biggest amount of leisure and cultural activities remains, indeed, in Rio center and in the neighborhood of Barra. The periphery has also a different kind of culture and one of its main characters is GSAPP - Columbia University in the City of New York
Ipanema
the intense street life.This is characterized by markets and festivals that occupy the entire street, while other activities like the informal vendors are mainly on the sidewalks. All these formal and informal activities involve private or public spaces, facades and delimited areas and they often overlap in space and time.
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ARMATURE, CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND NEW BRT LOOP. ISSUES AND POTENTIALS
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Santa Cruz is defined by an urban armature often hidden by the overlap of different layers. Especially in the Santa Cruz center it is possible to notice that the social infrastructure is deeply related to the transportation infrastructure. The role of the train station is still crucial for the Santa Cruz population, even without a proper public space. The overlap of these layers creates several issues in the neighborhood. For example, the BRT system improved the time and the quality of commuting but, at the same time, the presence of this infrastructure in the center destroyed what used to be a big cultural space with a strong identity, home of the historical and very popular carnival parade, characteristic of Santa Cruz.
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Also, the low density growth of the neighborhood center and the use of fences and walls are increasing the perception of enclaves.As previously addressed, Santa Cruz is also one of the main target areas for the Minha Casa Minha Vida housing program. These new areas are located outside the center and are completely disconnected from the social infrastructure of the city. Furthermore, these new residential developments are surrounded by walls and don’t provide mix uses on the ground floor. Our project wants to delineate and reinforce the elements of the built and unbuilt environment involved with movement, activity and cultural meanings. This will be supported also by the re-routing of the BRT that can give the lost pedestrian space
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to the community and attract additional investments along the new route. The three frames chosen, the train station, the Cultural Center and the densification zone, are located along the new BRT route and include parts of the armature of the city and are all characterized by different cultural activities. The frames are very different in terms of functions, connections and roles within the neighborhood. In either frames infrastructural or topographic barriers impact on the perception of the place and on the traffic congestion, delineating conflict zones. Our methodology aims to increase the porosity of the lots, shifting from residential enclaves with private or semiprivate outdoor spaces to semipublic permeable ground floors and shared open public spaces.
Increased traffic Destroyed spaces for festivals, carnival, gathering
BRT
Trigger for investments MCMV
Actual Enclave
Market Rate Surrounded by walls Low density Private open spaces
Existing Fabric
Infill of small lots
MCMV
Proposed Porosity
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SANTA CRUZ STREET LIFE - THE ARMATURE VIEW
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As a potential development area along the BRT Loop, the densification zone suggests a break through strategy for the large parcels to infill the huge empty lots with a courtyard type neighborhood. The breaking-through path is another kind of proposed urban armature that will link courtyards, cultural facilities and the ground levels of a new floating housing typology. This floating typology will capture the
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Soft Barrier
Solid Barrier
Shading
Communal Space
Retail
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living experience of the existing housing, looking at these moments and atmosphere as an important factor of culture as well. With two different types of living units, this typology suggests a mixed demographic living style for both middle and low income classes. The courtyard in the middle will be shared by everyone in the community. This typology will free the ground level space and will create opportunities for informal retail and gallery
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programs while will also offer flexibility for future expansions on top of the building. Together with the central courtyard, the building will work as a media rather than a separation between the community and the front street. We envision that the new BRT route will be a catalytic agent for further investments and streetscape along the loop, reinforcing the urban armature.
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In the train station frame, we will delineate the social infrastructure through both pedestrian paths and building typologies, supported by different kinds of activities. The rerouting of the BRT will allow the design of some of the streets around train station for pedestrian use only. Together with the central ramp and the decking system, the pedestrian boulevard, that used to be an active walkway
for carnivals, will highlight this major axis towards the Imperial Palace. A linear park will start from the end of the active train line along the abandoned rail road, linking together the train station, a new BRT terminal and the future tram station and connecting them to the cultural center on the South. Connected by the BRT loop and the linear park, the Cultural Center zone is designed to GSAPP - Columbia University in the City of New York
be a community shared zone with sports fields weaving with naturalscape. Thus, the isolated street between the actual empty site and cultural center will be developed as a main armature to incentivize the development on both sides. A new trail along the abandoned railway will be renovated around the slaughterhouse, behind the cultural center.
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APARTMENT
RETAIL
CULTURAL CENTER
DECKING
LINEAR PARK
PARKING COMMERCIAL INTERFACE TYPOLOGY
Ă lvaro Alberto Rd. GROUND LEVEL PARKING
This design strategy takes some benefits from the existing Olympic Village and Cultural Center facilities to reinforce the role of this area within the neighborhood of Santa Cruz. This new type of circulation will slow down the pedestrian flows with a series of open public spaces designed with different facilities to provide different experiences. The combination of ramps, steps, stairs and retail spaces
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GREEN SHADING
will create a constellation of public spaces along the Carnival Boulevard for both formal and informal activities to happen. The proposed housing typology will also emphasize the public use of the ground and second level areas to maximize the possibilities of social interaction. Supported by the huge number of pedestrian flows, the bridging typology located on top of a new
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CROSSING DECK
COMMERCIAL PEDESTRIAN
bridge across the railway, will mostly be used as gallery and as an office tower and will be owned by the railroad department. Along the main boulevard, an interface typology will be characterized by two levels of retail an, on the decking level, a semi-public commercial corridor between the retail and the high-rise apartments.
SECTION OF NEW TRAIN STATION
OFFICE VERTICAL CORE GALLERY/WORKSHOP
CROSSING DECK PLATFORM TRAIN STATION PEDESTRIAN
BRIDGING TYPOLOGY
BRT TERMINAL
TRANSIT PLAZA
Pátio da Estação Rd. LINEAR PARK ENTRANCE
TICKET OFFICE
INFORMAL MARKET
CORNER PLAZA
LOCAL BUS STOP
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LIGHTEN UP Using Adobe Maya and After Effect, we imagined to lift up Penn Station to provide a new passenger space on the ground level and a new open space. This provocation is shown on a digital table in a constant interaction between reality and digital experience. Video here: https://vimeo.com/103328812
READING NEW YORK URBANISM
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OPENCARTOGRAPHIES Using unconventional way of mapping, like Processing and online platforms as CartoDB and MapBox, I explored different ways to represent and manage data flows. Some of the maps are a combination of Facebook and Fouresquare APIs elaborated by Processing and, eventually, ArcMap. Interactive maps are made in MapBox, Tilemill and CartoDB.
OPEN CARTOGRAPHIES
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KALEiDOSCOPIC KNOTS
PRIVITIZATION OF PUBLIC SPACES IN NEO-LIBERAL BEIRUT Post-war, Lebanon, a weak-quasi state after being in war ever since 1975-90 resulted with sectarian divisions & political Corruption. This lead into privitization of the centre as well as various open spaces present within the city, leading to Displacement of local population to the peripheries.Current real estate boom has open doors to Expats & tourists in the city. Lack of interest in social reconciliation & growing vested interests of the private powers controlling the city has left no scope for social interaction within an already divided community.
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URBAN PRECONFIGURATIONS
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RE-ENVISIONING SAIDA ROAD
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CITY MORPHOSIS WITH TIME 1975- 1978
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RECONCILIATION LIMITED TO PRIVATE SPHERE ERASURE OF PAST & MEMORY ARSHIA CHAUDHRI, JENNY CADENA, SUSANNA CASTIELLO
Strategies to recreate contextual architecture and provide a ‘traditional’ fabric and historic link to the past of the city has failed in the attempt to preserve the city’s rich history and character.
The mental image of Beirut Centre as remembered by people above the age of 68.
Areas typified by low rise, poor quality consruction and unplanned layouts.
Most of these areas are illegally occupied
Areas typified by medium rise, fair and Most of these good quality areas construction built on are legally occuplanned pied as The mental image of Beirut Centre subdivisions. remembered by people between the
ages of 48 and 68.
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GENTRIFICATION OF NEIGHBOURHOODS
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Poor and non attractive area of the city
Developers created up market apartments for a population with higher spending Low income people power forced to move out (doubling of house The mental image of Beirut Centre as prices and rents) by the war generation remembered
below the age of 48.
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Selective in the history it reproduces and the memory it evokes
The remnants of a traumatic and debilitating violent struggle have all but been erased, and replaced instead with an appeal to a more glorious, illustrious and heroic past.
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PROJECTED GROWTH OF URBAN AREA
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PROVIDING PUBLIC GREEN SPACES MANAGED BY LOCAL ORGANISATIONS TO OVERCOME EXISISTING CHALLENGES OF PRVATE AND POLITICAL CONFLICTS
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Built a Better Block
De-Pave
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Pop-Up Cafes
Food
Public Market
Art
Micro Retail
MALL
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STRATEGY: GENERATIVE STREETS STRA STRATEGY ASTREETS :ASGENERATIVE STREETS, A SOCIAL CONNECTOR
SCALE 1 : LARGE EVENT SPACES /SEASONAL
STR R STREETS AS A SOCIAL CONNECTOR
SCALE 2 MEDIUM & SMALL TEMPORARAL ACTIVITIES WHICH HAVE POTENTIAL TO BE SUSTAINED
ACTIVATING THE STREETS BY PUBLIC PLACE BY UTILIZING UNDERUTILISED SPACES IN FORM OF PARKING LOTS, VACANT LOTS
OPTIONAL STREET CLOSURE
RECLAIMING STREETS AS PUBLIC SPACES BY BLOCKING THEM BAED ON SCHEDULING AND TIME OF THE DAY
SMALL SCALE TACTICAL INTERVENTIONS BOTH FOR FUND RAISING AS WELL AS SOCIAL INTERACTION
LOCAL PARTNERS AND INSTITUTIONS
BEIRUT GREEN PROJECT YOUTH ECONOMIC FORUM
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Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design - Class of 2015 GSAPP - Columbia University in the City of New York s.castiello@columbia.edu