The Normal – volume 3

The Normal.

Eleven proposals for reimagining the Detroit Dry Dock/Globe Trading Building.

Work by Ivan Adelson, Sean Baxter, Jimmy Bevilacqua, Bruce Findling, Tarlton Long, Justin Mast, Ben Rambadt, Kurt Schleicher, Aaron Weller, Brenna Williams, and Conor Wood.

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003 Flexible Living Brenna Williams

041 Re(Industrial)mediation Conor Wood

085 Social Production Justin Mast

131 Black Sheep Detroit Kurt Schleicher

167 Growing Urbanism Aaron Weller

207 Scraptastic!

Tarlton Long

247 RiverFront Artists James Bevilacqua

299 Lighting G-TAC Ivan Adelson

357 GO. Bruce Findling

397 Writing Detroit Ben Rambadt

445 Restrained Urbanism Sean Baxter

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Left : View of the interior of the Globe Trade Building. 1

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Flexible Living Residential Adaptation of the Globe Trade Building Brenna Williams

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LOCATION

Building into residential units. Residential

Elevator Building, has been transformed into

The Globe Trade Building is located at the

units are ideal in this location because

commercial units. This indicates that the

crux of the Dequindre Cut and the Detroit

the Dequindre Cut and Detroit Riverfront

area has the potential to become a diverse

Riverfront. The expansion and development

allow the inhabitants to commute to work

and vibrant neighborhood. These qualities

of the Dequindre Cut allows multiple

or travel throughout the city more easily by

make this site an ideal location for residential

neighborhoods to become connected by a

bike. Furthermore, the site is located of the

adaptive re-use because the inhabitants will

pedestrian infrastructure. Plans for further

edge of Milliken State Park, which provides

always have the promise of nature in their

expansion of the Dequindre Cut indicate that

an abundance of recreational space. The

vicinity, as well as the opportunity to be the

development along this pedestrian corridor

other side of the property has land that can

first residential building in a burgeoning

is a promising investment. This project

possibly be developed in the future. Close

neighborhood.

proposes to transform the Globe Trade

to the site, a newly renovated building, the

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Right : Map of Globe Trade Building in relation to the Dequindre Cut and Detroit Riverfront . 2

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Left : View of the Detroit River. 1

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Right : View of the Dequindre Cut running adjacent to the Globe Trade Building. 1

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Left : Adver tising campaigns 3,4

Detroit is a city that is constantly portrayed in

many campaigns have chosen to focus on the

a negative light. Recent news of the decrease

younger demographic as the target audience.

in population, according to the recent

It is unlikely that the baby boomer generation

census count, has only added to the notion

will choose to move to the city at this point

that Detroit is a decaying and neglected

in their lives. Therefore, revitalization of

city. There are numerous ad campaigns

the city is already being instigated, and will

that are sponsored by the city or private

continue to be promoted by the younger

entities. These campaigns acknowledge

generation. Advertising campaigns are also

the need to increase the appeal of the city

encouraging the younger generation. For

to the surrounding cities, states and even

example, the D-Brand ad campaign targets

the country as a whole. The researchers for

21-34 years olds within a 5-hour radius of

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Detroit by portraying the city as “the place where cool comes from.” Furthermore, Selling Detroit was a marketing competition sponsored by Time Inc. that challenged a handful of advertising agencies to create campaigns that encouraged the “creative 1834 year old demographic to move to Detroit.”5 The ad campaigns believe that there are many opportunities in Detroit for the younger generation and believe that they can be an asset to the rebranding of the city.

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“More than ever before, place matters. It is the distinct “vibe” that makes communities unique from one another. People want to live in communities that are unique and inspiring to them.” - Richard Florida 6

DEMOGRAPHIC

fast-growing, highly educated, and well-paid

exudes has resulted in a mediocre expansion

The creative class is a significant force in

segment of the workforce on whose efforts

of the creative class. Florida also explains

the development and revitalization of urban

corporate profits and economic growth

how this group of people prefer participatory,

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Furthermore, this

“multidimensional experiences.”7 This project

environments. Richard Florida coined

increasingly depend.”

the term “creative class” and explains the

demographic tends to migrate to culturally

anticipates the creative class as being the

necessity of cities responding to this group

vibrant and diverse cities that provide a

user of this residential building and therefore

of people. Florida says the creative class is

stimulating and exciting lifestyle experience.

aims to create a living experience that differs

comprised of “knowledge-based” workers in

Detroit currently has the resources to appeal

from the traditional single-family residential

industries as diverse as science, law, media,

to this demographic, due to the plethora of

houses throughout the city, and instead

design, computer programming and many

rich and varied cultural activity that the city

focuses on flexibility.

more. He describes the creative class as “a

offers. However, the stigma that the city

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HOUSING SCHEME

therefore they need two or three units rather

choose to add square footage wherever

Groups of eight housing units are assembled

than just one unit. The user may purchase

it is available within the building. This

into a block. This block is made up of two

shares for the square footage of multiple

indicates that a user can expand substantially

stories with each story having four 20’-0” x

units depending on the availability within

horizontally, creating a long linear space,

20’-0” units. Rather than designing a variety

the building. Therefore, the initial identical

or they can buy a unit that is not connected

of unit types, this project develops one unit

scheme of units is a base point from which

to their original unit, thus creating a

type and then allows the user to modify

the configuration of units departs. The axon

disconnected living space. The accompanying

units as necessary. For example, perhaps

diagrams show a few possible configurations

plans display the interior conditions of the

a person moves in and decides that one

of how a user may aggregate individual units.

standard block of eight individual units, as

unit is not enough space for them. Perhaps

The user is not restricted to expanding solely

well as an example of a unit that has been

they like to have out of town visitors and

within each block of eight units. A user can

adjusted by the user to better fit their needs.

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Over time, shares of square footage can be

wall. The exterior windows are organized

are connected to these walkways. The fairly

bought and sold to further negotiate the

so that walls can be located at 5’ intervals

steep stairs rise one floor level to allow for

residential spaces. The 20’-0” x 20’-0” grid

throughout the interior space. Circulation

access to all four potential units on the top

can be disrupted in order to account for the

has been established to foresee future

floor, and well as slope down slightly to allow

buying and selling of square footage. Square

possible configurations and allow access in

for access to the lower four units. For the

footage can be assembled and bundled in any

all instances, yet any radical changes to the

South and West wings, the exterior walkways

manner that the tenants wish. For example,

square footage layout will have to consider

are accessed by a vertical circulation core

if a user needs half a unit, but has no use

the circulation.

adjacent to the parking lot. For the East wing,

for the other 200 square feet, then they can

the exterior walkway originates from the

sell that square footage. This involves the

Each wing of units has an exterior walkway.

removal and reconstruction of an interior

The entry stairs for each block of housing

central plaza.

Right : Standard unit plans

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Detail per spective showing adjusted unit configuration

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Left : Per spective of communal kitchen

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COMMUNAL SPACES

Most tenants will own more than one unit and

there are two elevated communal backyards

Utilities are provided and are at an

therefore a bathroom in every individual unit

in the project. Similar to the kitchen, these

appropriate number whether there are a

is redundant. If there is an instance where a

spaces are places for the users to congregate

maximum or minimum number of users

tenantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unit or configuration or units does

and socialize. Since there is a constant

within the building. As shown in the unit

not include a kitchen, he or she will use the

trading of square footage, it is necessary

plan, there is one shared kitchen on each

communal kitchen. The communal kitchen is

that all tenants are friendly with one another.

floor of a block of units. The back two units

located in the central building on the second

This allows square footage negotiations to be

share this kitchen. The front two units do not

floor, above the public bar and cafĂŠ. It is a

more appropriate and amiable. Additionally,

have access to the kitchen. Also, there are

feature that allows this building to become a

it fosters an environment that appeals to the

the utilities available for a bathroom in each

community and encourages the neighbors to

creative class and most importantly, creates a

unit, however not all bathrooms are installed.

cook, eat and socialize together. Additionally,

cohesive community.

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Per spective of communal backyard

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Left : Detail of existing structure 1

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Left : Photo diagram of suspended masses Right : Diagram of suspended masses

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STRUCTURE

overhead cranes hung from them. By utilizing

use. All private spaces are elevated off the

The Globe Trade Building was an industrial

the structurally robust trusses the majority of

public floor, while the singular public space is

ship building factory. The only components

this building is suspended. There is a volume

embedded within the ground. Another strong

that remain from the existing building are the

suspended in each wing and one set of units

formal move was to lift the building at the

columns and trusses because the structure

perched above the trusses. The decision to

corner because this project is located at the

is extremely strong. In the South portion of

provide more housing units on the South side

crux of the Riverfront and the Dequindre Cut.

the existing building, the original columns

was because it allows for views to the river.

This provides the infrastructure for a plethora

were hung from oversized trusses so that

There is a volume located in the center of

of pedestrian activity. By lifting this corner,

two working floors could be suspended.

the site and not hung from the trusses. This

it is a gesture to the public to not be blocked

Additionally, in the East and West wings the

is because it is part of the program for the

out by this building, but rather to feel free to

trusses were quite robust because they had

public, rather than for private residential

slip inside the space.

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Re(Industrial)mediation Detroit Institute for Remediation Technology (DIRT) Conor Wood

Left : Hanging Gardens and Cour tyard, DIRT

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“This is a new notion, nothing like the notion of machines that was current in the Industrial Revolution, absolutely nothing like it. It is, if you like, a much more biological notion, maybe I’m wrong to call such a thing a machine…”

— Gordon Pask, Cybernetics Theoretician, 1972

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According to many, the proper name

city must not neglect to position such re-

for the current era in Detroit is ‘post-

industrialization as integral to reducing our

industrial’.2 Afterwards, proceeding, ad

impact on the natural environment. The

memoriam; the term invokes forlorn

region suffers some of the most contaminated

nostalgia, resounded by national regret. It

brownfield sites in the entire world. This

is an explicit acknowledgement of loss and

not only makes redevelopment in Detroit

death. The Motor City was once synonymous

expensive, but also dangerously toxic.

with industrial enterprise, but what does it

Current Governor Rick Snyder is further

symbolize in this century? Popular media

threatening such redevelopment incentives

has repeatedly categorized this urban center

by eliminating brownfield and historic

as a certain kind of crisis; an economic,

development tax credits. If such a budget

ecological, and cultural failure. But has

were passed through, most entrepreneurial

contemporary media entirely missed the

redevelopment in the region would come to

opportunities presented within inherent

a standstill. Even “The Big Three” automotive

failures? Former Governor Jennifer Granholm

corporations would suffer from such policy,

projected one model for the Southeast

with less incentive to re-tool their historic

Michigan Region: an economy of the “green-

facilities in favor of building outside of

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collar”. In this renaissance of Detroit’s

Michigan. Gov. Snyder cites brownfield

manufacturing prowess, the region would

and historic development tax credits as

effectively become the national leader in the

not central to attracting new businesses,

production of lithium-ion batteries, windmill

but maybe the full potential of brownfield

turbines, electric vehicles, and alternative

sites and green-collar industries hasn’t yet

energy research. While this broadcast

presented itself. 4

has begun to garner global attention, the

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Opportunistic Wastelands

The brownfield site stands as the geo-

Such national ‘failure’ on the ecological

physical manifestation of the post-industrial.

front predicates a search for opportunity

Brownfields are defined by the U.S.

in the current post-industrial situation. If

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be

contemporary society allows brownfields to

real property “complicated by the presence

proliferate urban regions, there isn’t much

of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or

time before hazardous substances over-

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contaminant.” Before tax credits were

saturate our natural ecology to the point

approved in 1997, Detroit was estimated

where our urban survival is threatened.

to have over 5400 acres of brownfield land

Poised as the most endangered, can the city

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within the city boundaries. While this

of Detroit turn this impending crisis into

acreage of contaminated land supersedes

economic capital?

national averages; brownfield sites have permeated our metropolitan centers. The EPA has estimated that there are over 450,000 brownfield sites in the United States.

Assuming that the typical industrial site is 2-3 acres, there are more than 1,350,000 acres of hazardously contaminated land in this country.7 Right : Map of Detroit’s brownfield sites

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Entrepreneurial Remediation

TechTown and NextEnergy in the New

Bringing together energy research and

Amsterdam DIstrict of Detroit have

biotechnology, green-collar industry could

established economic incubators for

be best defined as turning bio-ecological

research-based start-ups such as NexTek

improvements into capital gains. Considering

Energy, A123 Systems (lithium-ion batteries),

that Detroit has a surplus of brownfield sites

and Asterand PLC (stem cells and human

and the means to support heavy research,

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tissue). Besides providing subsidized space

environmental remediation can become a new

to these companies, Detroit has become

industrial export. As in Economics 101, supply

attractive as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;research corridorâ&#x20AC;? with direct

vs. demand: the United States demands the

proximity to Wayne State University, the

recovery of contaminated urban sites for

University of Michigan, and Michigan State

development, Detroit supplies research

University. These start-ups are beginning to

expertise and manufactured mechanical-

operate on a national scale as they continue

computational apparatus to public and

to take advantage of working in Detroit. If the

private markets. In order to achieve such a

model of the research-based organization

model, an incubator could be established

became the new paradigm of Detroit

in the form of a catalytical institution to

economics, then the city may be able to

harbor green-collar organizations: the Detroit

effectively re-industrialize.

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Globe Trading Building and Dry Dock Complex

Immediate Siteplan

The former Globe Trading Building and Dry

that will stretch along the site all the way to

Dock Complex serves as the site for the

Belle Isle. The Dequindre Cut trail also travels

DIRT. A brownfield industrial site along the

the east side of the building. Without any

Detroit River, the facility has a long-standing

adjacent structures, the Globe stands as a

industrial history of shipbuilding. The Dry

monumental ruin in the current landscape.

Dock in front of the complex has now become

Its renegotiation for the DIRT will institute

an inlet for the river, with part of the site

manipulations of scale, material conservation

being developed into a state park. The Detroit

as a historic property, public interaction, and

Riverfront Conservancy is building a trail

ecological phytoremediation strategies.

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Left : Southwest View down Atwater Street , South Faรงade Right : Flipped Truss Box Frames, from Atwater Street

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Structural Prosthesis An excavation of the interior core (shipping and receiving, chipping room) and south end of the building at grade creates a sheltered plaza and courtyard beneath the through the Globe. Due to the extensive dilapidation of the current structural systems, only the primary steel structures can be salvaged to support heavy loads. To supplement new load-paths resultant of the excavations, structural prosthetics in the form of concrete piers and re-oriented trusses are applied to the building. The old steel contacts the new concrete to form box-frame sections that support each of the three wings.

The re-oriented trusses are taken from the existing roof structures, which no longer need to support the loads of ship construction.

Cavities in the piers hold mechanical systems.

Foundr y Column

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Corner Isometric with Hidden Lines, South & East Faรงade

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Left : South Faรงade Right : Structure Exposed, South Faรงade

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Mimetic Machines Exhibit , Exhibition Hall

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Remediation Apparatus & Hanging Gardens To aid in the recovery of the Globe’s brownfield site, robotic geotextile meshworks operate on the landscape and Dry Dock.

The apparatus filter chemical toxins and heavy metals through salt absorption, which is then stored for research and safe disposal within the DIRT’s lab spaces. The geotextile also holds the site stable for the growth of vegetation. The structures of the meshworks are composed of biodegradable corn-based plastics.

Each element has sensors which record on-site chemical and Geotextile Details, Philip Beesley 10

climate conditions, which are telecommunicated back to the DIRT’s Archive and Data Center for data analysis. Sensors are likewise implanted into the cable-mesh of the Hanging Gardens, in the DIRT’s excavated courtyard. Suspended from existing and new steel columns, the mesh serves to cultivate vegetative material for study and implementation in remediation. In both systems, the network is a physical and metaphorical synthesis between the technological and the organic, a primary objective of the DIRT as it seeks to export designs for mimetic remediation machines.

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Left : Oblique Plan Projection, Hanging Gardens Right : Hanging Gardens

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Bio-chemical Response Wall This cable-scaffolding structure is remnant of excavation support during construction. The scaffolding is then applied with hundreds of LED lights and sensors that respond to real-time gas fluctuations. In a clean-air composition, the light defaults to a green hue. If the embedded sensors pick up another gas, the light changes to a color corresponding with the chemical composition. The response of the lights reads as fluid waves of color across the south façade of the Globe. Beyond dynamic aesthetics, the wall serves as an interface for visualizing “Detroit Industr y,” Diego Rivera 11

conditional circumstance in the air. The cause and effect enables the viewer to understand the fluctuations in the air as a form of post-industrial data that is communicated by the environment.

This data reads as a painting of light by nature; a commentary similar to Diego Rivera’s paintings of Detroit’s industrial condition. Because of the Globe’s international context on Detroit River, the south-façade response wall speaks to a much larger audience through Canadian vantage points and tourist photographs of Detroit.

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Top Left : Industrial Loft Section Bottom Left : Response Wall Plan

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Right : Detail Axonometric, Response Wall

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DIRT Residential Courtyard As the Dequindre Cut activates a formerly defunct urban condition, the vacant lots around the Globe have the opportunity to become live-work environments along Detroit’s Riverfront. A residential building completes a ring around the DIRT’s courtyard, protecting visitors from northern winds and protecting a park space with access to the Dequindre Cut. With screen-cable scaffolding structures along the façades of the building, residents can plant wall gardens to grow small-produce and flowers. This scaffolding also enables a freedom of aesthetic and construction for the true building walls behind the cables. This infill could be any masonry

Volume Model, Residential Cour tyard

unit, from cheap CMU blocks to custom stone. Though designed for this building, such a method could be implemented in further residential development throughout the area.

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Social Production Reformatting Studio Space Justin Mast

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Clockwise from Left : Jerr y Paffendorf and Mar y Lorene Car ter of LOVELAND 1 , Oneita Por ter, Designer and Owner of GrrlDog Jewerly 2, Andy and Emily Linn of City Bird 3 , SOUP 4 , Sarah Lipinski of Wound Menswear in her 2000 Brooklyn workspace 5 , Mike Han of Street Culture Mash, and Claire Nelson of the Bureau of Urban Living 6 .

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Agent Entrepreneur The Spirit of Detroit The days of mourning Detroit are over,

as cheap land, homes, and buildings, an

especially if you ask Detroiters. After years

opportunity for off-the-grid development,

of highlighted fallout, glorified ruin, and

and free-reign. Detroit entrepreneurs are

declarations that the city is dead—the tune

bringing restaurants, bakeries, bike shops,

has changed. And it’s changing from the inside

and produce into the city—not to mention

out. A new breed of wide-eyed wild men and

money, jobs, and occupancy. This decade

women are moving back into the city and

may the be start of a new era in Detroit—one

declaring it a land of opportunity. Deserted

marked by optimism and opportunity. It

properties, stretched infrastructure, and

seems that today in Detroit, there’s nothing

unpredictable services were reasons for

entrepreneurship cannot accomplish.

concern; but now the city is being seen (see “Agent Entrepreneur” in The Normal, Vol. I)

From left to right: GMaps Aerial of The Russell Industrial Center, an interior space at the Russell (March 2011), same interior space in 2008 by Christian Unverzagt.

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Russell Industrial Center With over 150 commercial tenants, including

built to accommodate the growing auto body

former use as a manufacturing facility, has

architects, painters, clothing designers, glass

manufacturing business of the Murry Body

served its tenants well. The space is raw

blowers, wood craftsman, metal sculptors,

Company. After years of being abandoned,

and secluded, perfect for the manufacturing

and graphic designers, the Russell Industrial

Dennis Kefallinos purchased the building

component of new small scale makers. That

Center is the classic example of abundant and

in 2003 and converted into more than one

being said, todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maker-businesses need to

cheap space available in Detroit. Designed

million square feet of studio space and lofts.

thrive at far more than just manufacturing.

in 1915, by Albert Khan, the structure was

In many ways, the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design for its

Successful new business models emerging

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are collaborative and open. Production

the Russell is less effective. Some makers and

not the complete picture. If Detroit continues

now involves ever changing partnerships

entrepreneurs are finding themselves buried

to attract and produce independent maker-

and teams. Entrepreneurs are required to

in the center of a massive complex, isolated

businesses, we need to be ready for the next

be producers, salespeople and marketers.

from each other and from their customers.

step—an architecture that enhances and

Customers want to not only see behind the

To be sure, the Russell is providing Detroit

catapults new social production processes,

curtain, but also play a role in the making of

with something important—low cost flexible

the same way Khan’s designs did for the mass

their goods. In terms of meeting these needs,

space for making and designing. That said, it’s

production era.

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Eastern Market The Eastern Market is another example of

economy - a local food district with more

with hundreds of open-air stalls where

thriving entrepreneurship in Detroit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As

than 250 independent vendors and merchants

everyone from toddlers to tycoons enjoy the

many as 40,000 people flock to Eastern

processing, wholesaling, and retailing food.

strong conviviality served up along with great

Market for its Saturday Market to enjoy one

At the heart of Eastern Market is

selections of fruits, veggies, fresh-cut flowers,

of the most authentic urban adventures

a six-block public market that has been

homemade jams, maple syrups, locally

in the United States. The market and the

feeding Detroit since 1891. Every Saturday

produced specialty food products, pasture

adjacent district are rare finds in a global

it is transformed into a vibrant marketplace

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From left to right: Eastern Market’s plan for it’s public core8, a vendor unloading produce9, a bird’s eye view of a portion of the Eastern Market as proposed10 , and a scene inside of one of the market’s interior spaces.

By serving as a larger entity under which

buying locally from dozens of independent

spaces, and they are planning on connecting

many independent entrepreneurs gather, the

vendors, Detroit restaurants can still go to

to the DeQuindre to enhance the pedestrian

“Easter Market” creates something tangible

one place at one time for their supply.

access to the market. In their plan, however,

that customers can approach. One doesn’t

Building on this success, the Easter

they have decided to limit their focus to

need to know about a specific cucumber

Market has big plans. They are expanding

produce. The Easter Market is a place for

farmer, for example, to know where to find

the market to include more places for food

selling meats, vegetables, and flowers—not

fresh, locally produced cucumbers. While

production, they are planning out live/work

clothing, furniture, and paintings.

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The Globe Trading Co. Building 1801 Atwater Street The intersection of Detroitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pedestrian corridor The Globe Trading Company Building, also knows as the Detroit Dry Dock Company Complex, is located at the Rivertown Warehouse District, just Northeast of Downtown Detroit. It sits adjacent to the Tricentennial State Park and Harbor and is located at the intersection of Riverfront Conservancy and the Dequindre Cut. The Dequindre Cut, a below-grade 1.35-mile pathway, offers a pedestrian link between the Riverfront paths, Eastern Market, and many of the residential neighborhoods in between. These pedestrian paths, community focused bike shops, and the Eastern Market have created a car-less and local market lifestyle potential in this city. The Globe Building is situated perfectly to tap into this network.

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Building History Started in the mid 1852, the Globe Trading Building consists of six interconnected buildings. The complex is significant as a remnant of Detroitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s once considerable maritime manufacturing industry. For decades, this facility made and repaired ships and also manufactured ship engines. For a time, the building also housed the Dry Dock Hotel.11

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FLEX Spaces/Shed 7

The main halls are left in place, serving as

Detroit. The spaces are available for special

non-produce related trade. Vendors, either

flex space used by all groups in the building.

events where tenants might invite their

tenants or regional makers, activate the two

During the day, the FLEX spaces serve as

customers to co-design and co-make items.

halls with market-style commerce.

workspace for the fabrication shop and the

During evenings in the summer, the

studio occupants. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing that local/

restaurant is able to spread out into the East

micro-manufacturing models run differently

Hall space. Typically, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll use the space for

than traditional large scale manufacturing.

summer seating, but they may also rent the

Tenants might spread out for a collaborative

space out for catering special events or for

manufacturing process with another tenant

concerts from the Bar/Lounge.

in the building or with another business from outside of the building, or even outside

During weekends, the Eastern Market spills into the FLEX spaces to host

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Construction Diagram

Structure Removed

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The NORMAL Detroit

Detroit is a place full of contradiction

another side though. Car rims still get stolen.

and irony. The enthusiasm and belief in

A visitor gets sidetracked and ends up in the

entrepreneurship is real. There are things

wrong part of town. An unexpected turn can

working in Detroit that would not work

enchant or demystify the place. You can never

anywhere else. The wild-eyed bunch that

be sure what Detroit you will get. One day it’s

inhabit the place are as authentic as they

the place of opportunity, the next, your car

come. And they believe in their city—they

gets broken in to. The problems are real. This

will insist Detroit does not need rebirth

is the normal in Detroit—a place of extremes.

or rejuvenation, it’s already alive. There is

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Black Sheep Detroit Embracing Individuality in the Post-industrial Landscape Kurt Schleicher

Left : View looking nor th up the Dequindre Cut , Detroit .

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A Point of Transition The Globe building is situated between Detroitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban center and its shrinking neighborhoods, most of which are growing more rural each day.

With all of this open land and little city finance to maintain properties, grasses grow tall and neighborhoods continue to vanish. Utilizing sheep and goats as a means to maintain this land and manage that public space belonging to the Riverfront Conservancy, offers an alternative solution a longstanding problem.

Goat and sheep migration in and around the city behave as attractors for the new Globe building: an urban farm for veterinary research and the production of milk and cheeses to compliment the area just south of the Eastern Market.

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Projections into the future as trends continue

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Maintain Shade and protect against rain and snow.

Use Existing Structure Structure provides good framework structure

Locate Core of Building and Maintain Facade and Remove all Windows Increased ventilation through buiding and a central focus.

Combine Circulation Paths Around Core Publick paths offer views to ground floor while circulating through building above.

Cut and Fill for Public Infrastructure As far back as the dry dock, the Globe has had a long history with ground manipulation. Cut and fill methods offer a unique opportunity.

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Stretch of Detroit Riverfront: The Globe as hub between the Conrail Exposition Spur, the Eastern Market, and Belle Isle. All three locations are situated within less than a three mile radius from the site, offering ideal daily migration distances to sheep and goats.

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Milking Parlor Both the milking parlor and the Dequindre Cut serve as precedents for ground removal and the manipulation of the ground plane.

Both cases reposition the view of the user, altering their sense of vision, providing a different position from which to view our surroundings.

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Sheep Dip The sheep dip serves as an ending to a traditional sheep chute, where the sheep are fenced in single file and led into a pool of water for cleaning. The dimensions of this dip,the sloped walls, the narrowness, and ground alteration offer ways of thinking about how people may move through this building, as well as sheep.

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BELOW GRADE A tunnel beneath the existing Globe building serves to create a direct connection between the Dequindre Cut and the riverfront. For those not wishing to visit the farm, the new cut serves to create a more direct route in either direction.

While the passage passes beneath the building, it is not fully enclosed. Air is free to pass through the building and up through its central core. Drainage is directed through this passage which is sloped towards the riverfront.

The blue represents an enclosed/human environment.

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Ground Level (Sheep held on Site) The ground level is opened up, creating an environment that showcases both the production of milk and cheese, and the raising of sheep and goats.

Production takes the form of exhibition, as the public is able to engage with the processes involved in with maintaining livestock.

The blue represents an enclosed/human environment, including milking and cheese making infrastructure, as well as recreation and veterinary locations.

The red represents the areas in which the sheep kept on site cycle through daily.

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Ground Level (Sheep Held in Transition) Unlike the sheep held on site, these sheep do not need to be milked. They are the caretakers of public spaces, migrating along the river front and up the Dequindre Cut.

These Sheep come in through the gathering pen, enter the chute, and are directed a holding pen. They also utilized the sheep dip during warm months, less as a means to delice, and more as a means to stay cool and act as demonstration to the visiting public.

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Ground Level (Goats) Goats are utilized to maintain the northern end of the Dequindre Cut where the vegetation is more diverse and rugged, while the sheep are left to maintain the grasses along the riverfront and out to Belle Isle.

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Second Floor (Housing, Workspace, and Retail) The Second floor serves as the primary entrance for employee/resident housing while providing ample space for a number of research and educational components tied into the program of the farm. Employees are affiliated with the University and local communities, both of whom work for temporary periods of time.

The enclosed areas are bordered by a public ramp which frames an open floor below, offering constant views to the animals and production of Cheess and milk below.

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Third Floor and Rooftop (Housing and Extended Park) This level primarily serves as an extesion of the park to the east. The two public ramps entering the building from both the riverfront and the Dequindre Cut meet in the middle of the building and direct both parties to the partially enclosed rooftop.

The various temporary Residents of the Farm have direct access to this space from the loft of their respective apartments.

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Growing Urbanism in 4 acts of construction Aaron Weller

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Once, a city became so geographically sparse and so socially stratified it began to consolidate. Within the confines of the Globe Trading Building, a point along the river, 4 acts of construction set into dialogue typological dwelling conditions of the city. The dwelling types by nature of being constructed at different periods were discrete. They maintained individual differentiation and autonomy, however, the dwellings were constructed under a new roof, confined within walls, and among semiexterior interstitial common spaces, such as an open court, streets or ‘docks’, and elevated ‘porches’ or roof terraces.

The scheme GROWING URBANISM projects one form of such consolidation; wondering what type of social ethos would ensue.

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class” The owner initiates schemes to turn the

A crew of laborers is offered on-site living and

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building into a maximum occupancy. Social

wages in exchange for work days. A type of

rental units are modest in scale, open and

and environmental contingencies are

vertical worker housing is produced, modest

flexible, tailoring to a “creative class” who’s

intensified.

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living and work needs are adaptable and

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flourish in an environment such as a post-

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industrial riverfront. The rental units are

existing floors and roof are planed and

built in relation both to the newly polished

utilized as a siding material for a balloon

globe building and what has already been

frame building enclosure.

built. Brick from the building is re-used to construct easily partitioned open floor plans.

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is saved and sorted, and infrastructure

characters: “middle class”

necessary for the Globe Trading Bldg reoccupancy is constructed. Infrastructure

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in order to test the bldg. as a viable economy,

irrigation, stabilization of the bldg. envelope,

given a growing community. The market

‘street’ with white oaks and building service

is constructed with metal frames from the

lines, raised bed agricultural plats with

existing building clerestories and new plate

trenches, and curated “follies” of pre-existing

glass. The building owner enlists real estate

building elements, i.e, loading dock, elevator

agencies to parcel off agricultural plots for

shaft, select stairwells, ladders, light fixtures,

single-family dwellings. Building setbacks and

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Introduction The initial concept for the project originated in considering the image to the right, an image of the Machine Shop of the Globe Trade Building from 1894. As the Globe Trade building represents an artifact of preauto industry in Detroit, a proposal emerged to bring back the practice of making to the Globe Trade complex in a manner that reďŹ&#x201A;ected the emerging entrepreneurial spirit of contemporary Detroit. For the program of the building, my initial goal was simple: to create a maker culture centered on cooperative material sharing and to integrate this work oriented program with the park and recreation space already surrounding the site as well as temporary living program. Therefore, the driver of the project was two-fold. One, I strove to design a system of material sharing that both operated at a micro scale among the tenants of the proposed site as well as on the macro scale that engaged greater material trends in the city. Two, I wanted to integrate the infrastructure of this system into the existing structure of the building as well as preserve certain portions of the building as a means to foster greater public interaction within the site and treat parts of the building as an extension of the surrounding park. As a result, not only does the design scope include the design of a material sharing system, the infrastructure that facilitates this sharing among tenants, but also the design of strategic interventions that allow access to public and private programs and act to preserve certain parts of the existing Globe trade complex.

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Dan Hoffman, Erasing Detroit , 1993

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Material Relocation In Detroit un-building is vastly prevalent to building. As a result, material re-location is a common practice. At the top of the Dequinder Cut, there exists an established system of material sharing. Scrappers utilize a set of abandoned silos to burn off rubber remnants of copper wiring as a means to strip the material to its essentials, then sell the material to the City Recycling center directly across the street. The Recycling Center then sells the processed materials to industry throughout the region. The scrappers

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strip the material from vacant homes throughout the city and in the process leave a considerable path of destruction. However, whether it was Dan Hoffmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project Erasing Detroit in which he de-constructed a singlefamily home and arranged the materials in a gallery, or the work of the Architectural Salvage Warehouse, there exist precedents in Detroit in which the individuals see broader value in the wealth of unused materials that populate the vacant structures of the city.

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in shifts in behavior of the scrapper network; scappers would then have

towards materials as Dan Hoffman or the Architectural Salvage Warehouse

an incentive to consider the vacant structures as valuable beyond just

in which discarded building materials can be granted new life through

their copper pipes, thus increasing the quantity of materials that are

strategically relocating them to my site. Essentially, the proposal seeks to

removed from vacant structures for recycling and diverted from landďŹ lls.

create a type of industrial ecology in that operates at both the city-scale

However, as the type of materials being collected from the City Recycling

through integrating a system of material sharing into the established and

Center may not always be ideal, alternative material sources such as the

robust scrapper network already present at the top of the Dequindre

Architectural Salvage Warehouse or even Home Depot may be utilized.

Cut, but also within the program of the site itself through designing a framework that facilitates symbiotic relationships among the tenants composing a unique entrepreneurial maker-culture.

The project seeks to achieve symbiotic behavior through both macro and micro scale system design. At the macro scale, the system seeks to tap into the existing scrapper network of Detroit, whose informal center of operations lies of at the top of Dequindre Cut. Establishing a connection to this network provides source of material resources to the tenants of the shop spaces, whom are envisioned to be a collection of furniture makers, artists, and other maker-entrepreneurs. Reclaimed materials removed from Detroitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building stock by the well established scrapper network will be collected from the City Recycling Center and brought to the site via the Dequindre Cut. However, through the tenantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; desire to have access to a more diverse range of materials, a demand can be established for softer materials, such as timber and masonry products.

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Shop Organization The design of the shop program seeks to create a framework for material and resource sharing among the tenants within the Globe Trade complex.

The shop spaces are organized around a ramp and storage wall system that facilitates the storage and circulation of reclaimed materials in a manner that creates greater visual connection to the reclaimed materials while also allowing an economy of material movement between tenants.

The storage wall is located within portions of the facade and along the central ramp as a means to have the reclaimed materials on constant display in order to provide moments of inspiration for the entrepreneurial shop tenants to drive a range of small projects.

Teamwork Bags, a company that specializes in making messenger bags from reclaimed materials is an example of a small company centered on making that beneďŹ ted from visual connections to discarded materials. Their shop is located adjacent to a scrap yard in Grand Rapids, Michigan. While their business plan was originally focussed on making bags from reclaimed sails, a chance encounter with discarded chair parts in the scrap yard resulted in a new project that ultimately expanded their business model and the types of objects they make. In the case of Teamwork Bags, it was their visual connection to the materials that stimulated the new creative opportunity.

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RiverFront Artist Cooperative and Dequindre Cut Gallery Can Detroit Support an Artist Movement and Avoid Gentrification?

Over the last few years, the national press has

This is not a new trend; artists have been

The widespread economic hardships may

begun to take notice of the Detroit art world

creating bohemian villages in blighted areas

help create a new model for the urban

as demonstrated through articles written

as early as the 1960s. SoHo and Tribeca in

artist colony. There has been some debate

for The New York Times and Wall Street

Manhattan, Williamsburg in Brooklyn, Fort

as to whether gentrification would even be

Journal. Most of the concentration has been

Point Channel in Boston, River North and

possible in Detroit. Due to the vast surplus

focused on the cheap property values and

Wicker Park in Chicago, and the Arts District

of vacant lots is it possible to cause massive

the possible effects that artist communities

in downtown Los Angeles are examples of the

displacement of the current residents?

can have on building identities and creating

transformational power that artists possess.

Considering that families are leaving Detroit

an environment for urban renewal without

In most cases, the artists are ultimately

without the forces of gentrification at

government involvement. Right now in

displaced once their inside-out form of urban

playâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the 2010 U.S. Census shows Detroitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Detroit, artists can purchase a house for

renewal spurs gentrification. But now, with

population shrank by close to 25% over the

as little as $100 per lot and are starting to

the real estate market collapse, economists

last ten yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how will Detroit move forward?

create small artists colonies that include

and urban planners believe that artists have

live/work spaces and residency programs.

an opportunity for ownership in communities.

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“From SoHo to Detro?”

Detroit Free Press Article written by Andrew Herscher, April 1, 2009

“. . . It might seem utterly bizarre to decry the future effects of gentrification in Detroit, a city that is now desperate for investments of any sort and hopes of any kind. And yet, what might be even more bizarre is how just this same desperation and hope once characterized SoHo itself. In 1962, the City Club of New York published a report entitled The Wastelands of New York, which focused on the area that is now known as SoHo. The report described that area as an ‘enormous commercial slum’ with disastrously low property values. A few decades later, of course, the problems facing SoHo became entirely different—the problems of a massively overdeveloped enclave of and for the wealthy.”

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During the emergence of the artist community in SoHo in the 1960s, “raw space’’ was the phrase used to describe a loft in need of

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repairs—often having cracked walls and ceilings and broken windows.

“Renovation’’ described the process of making the space usable. In effect, Detroit’s raw space does not exist only within the walls of the abandoned warehouses and factories; it exists amongst the streets, the empty shops, the burnt-down homes, the vacant lots, the sense of identity . . .

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The Globe Trade Building Building a Locus for Detroit Artists

Removal of Central Volume, Interior Walls, and Floor Plates

The Globe Trade Building is sited at the intersection of the Detroit riverfront, the Dequindre Cut Greenway, and the proposed Milliken State Park. The building has evolved from its original state, the Machine Shop, built in 1892, as it had to adapt to changing socioeconomic conditions. Originally the building defined the perimeter of the block, leaving a courtyard condition at its center. My proposal recreates the courtyard by removing the central addition. All existing interior walls and floorplates are removed to bring in light and create a large public exhibition and market space. The existing structure is adapted to support two elevated interlocking volumes that house a live-work artist community to the South and East and an artist gallery to the North and West.

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RiverFront Artist Cooperative Southeast Corner

The RiverFront Artist Cooperative is a live-work community consisting of eight units. The five units on the South side of the building are meant to be occupied by permanent residents while the three East units are for visiting artists. Both types of units contain a sleeping loft to separate the work area. The permanent resident units have an additional separation of live and work on the lower level by a hallway.

The sleeping loft in these units acts as a bridge between the two programmatic elements. The living areas are positioned on the South side of the volume to allow for river views and passive solar heat gain in the winter. The work areas to the North allow for access to even ambient light and a visual connection to the public space below. At the Southeast corner of the building is a shared terrace space and access to an additional roof terrace.

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Dequindre Cut Gallery Northeast Corner

Entrance to the Dequindre Cut Gallery is accessed through the original Globe building at the Northeast corner, directly off of the Dequindre Cut Greenway. The Gallery space consists of 15,000 square feet of open exhibition areas. The North wing hovers above the entrance to the courtyard, connecting the original Machine Shop and Foundry of the Globe Trade Building. Natural light is brought into the gallery from above. The West Gallery sits on the existing structural system and overlooks the triple height space of the Machine Shop which is used for large scale installations. Just below the West Gallery, situated between the Machine Shop and the courtyard is a glass enclosed exhibition space and coffee bar. This is meant for the display of local artists work that does not require the controlled conditions of the elevated gallery space. It also allows for art to be viewed when the private gallery space is closed.

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Extending the Gallery Wall Street Art and Outdoor Exhibition

Detroit is home to many different types of contemporary artists and the Dequindre Cut Gallery is meant to bring all the artists together in the hope that the collective spirit of Detroitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artists will help to bring positive change to the city. The Globe Trade Building, as well as the underpass walls of the Dequindre Cut, have served as a canvas to many Detroit graffiti artists. The Dequindre Cut Gallery would add to the landscape for Street Art. The façade of the gallery is meant to be marked, tagged, and illustrated. Additionally, the grounds outside the gallery are open for public art installations.

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Urban Scale Detroit A Return to an Industrial Scale City

A major factor in the rebuilding process for Detroit will be a realistic model for sustained growth. Downtown Detroit is mostly associated with the cluster of skyscrapers that huddle to the West of the Globe Trade Building. Unfortunately, the economy that built those buildings no longer exists in Detroit. The city must be reimagined at the scale of a smaller industrial city. This is not to say that Detroit must rely on its dissappearing manufacturing base to support growth, but rather to think in terms of flexible, mixed-use, adaptable buildings that can support new businesses, artists, craftsmen, and build a closer knit community that promotes residential and work environments.

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Extending the Public Space Milliken State Park

Located in the heart of downtown Detroit, William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor is the first urban state park. It is a showcase of the natural resources collected throughout all of Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state parks.

This green oasis in the heart of the city provides opportunities for picnics, walks and shore fishing. The addition of a local art gallery and public exhibition of local artists work would add a cultural element and attract additional park-goers. The Dequindre Cut Gallery and RiverFront Artist Cooperative would be a destination point connecting the RiverWalk with the Dequindre Cut Greenway as they merge into the parkgrounds. The completely open ground level and courtyard acts as an extension of the park, elevating the public interaction with both the gallery and the original Globe building.

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“ Art is one of the last things outsiders associate with Detroit. But drive the streets and you quickly realize the city possesses an energetic, grassroots creative class that not only spreads color, whimsy and provocation across the landscape, but also serves as an engine of redevelopment.”

—Bill McGraw Free Press Columnist December 18, 2007

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greater visual connection between exhibition and work spaces

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The Normal, a brief brief.

“The studio will consider Detroit, which has

“The studio will focus its investigation on the

“The research will be a stepping off-point

undergone such remarkable transformation

significant transformations that occurred

from which to embark on a project that

during the last century that we don’t quite

between 1955 and 2005 — a fifty year span

engages contemporary conditions of life and

know what to call it. Artists and journalists

where the United States saw a period of

work in the post-boom economy. The larger

are flocking to the city in an attempt to make

significant prosperity, paralleled by the

site for the project will be the area east of

sense of it. We are on the cusp of a period

growth of the suburbs and tremendous gains

downtown Detroit, running perpendicular

where energy and ecology are the defining

in per capita consumption. 2011 marks the

to the Detroit River and parallel to the

characteristics of our time and this studio

year that the first “baby boomers” retire and

Dequindre Cut Greenway. Students are

expects that they will factor in strongly to the

the studio will look at these conditions as an

expected to do produce comprehensive

design process.”

attempt to recalibrate conditions of land-use,

projects that are provocative, engaging,

home-size, commute time, etc.”

intelligent, and inventive.”1

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The Globe Trade Building, a history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first of the buildings, a steel-frame and

a small stove manufacturer, by the Detroit

is an example of the evolution of American

brick machine shop, was erected in 1892 at

Edision Company, for appliance repair, and

construction methods of the late nineteenth

the corner of Orleans and Atwater Streets.

lastly by a machinery wholesale firm, the

and early twentieth century...Third, this

The last one, a structure for shipping and

Globe Trading Company.

complex is one of the last physical remnants

receiving, was constructed during the late-

of the pre-automobile era industries in

1910s. In between these dates, a foundry, a

The significance of the Dry Docks Engine

three-story industrial loft building, a chipping

Works complex is three fold. FIrst, it played

room, and an addition to the machine shop

a significant role in the maritime history of

were also erected. After Detroit Shipbuilding

the Great Lakes as a manufacture of marine

Company dissolve in the late 1920s, the

steam engines for freight and passenger

former engine-building plant was used by

vessels. Second, the complex of buildings

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AlvĂŠole 14 |

Saint Nazaire, France | LIN architects

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Le Lieu Unique | Nantes, France | Patrick Bouchain

Le Pass | Frameries, Belgium | Laurent Niget_post Jean Nouvel 307

Palais de Tokyo |

Paris, France | Lacaton & Vassal

Parc De La Villette |

Paris, France | Bernard Tschumi

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Le Grand Palais |

Paris, France

Le Channel |

Calais, France | Patrick Bouchain_François Delarozière_ Francis Peduzzi 309

Ecole d’Architecture in Nantes |

Nantes, France | Lacaton & Vassal

Les Frigos |

Paris, France | formerly la gare frigorifique de paris-ivry

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La Friche Belle De Mai |

Marseille, France | Patrick Bouchain

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The Cut-Through, a destination connection.

The project started with the idea of creating a connection between the site, The Globe Trade building, and its surrounding context, Milliken State Park and the Dequindre Cut. These pathways would not only allow for a connection between external program of the park but begin to help formulate and establish an organization and flow for the internal relationships of the project within the Globe itself. The pathways were developed in response to the current structural and organizational systems established within the Globe Building, allowing the intervention of puncturing, or rather opening the facade to be less invasive and more logical, pragmatic. In order to render explicit this new move, the idea was to paint the area of the floor with a shiny, glossy bright color so as to reflect and create new visual spaces. A study of various pathway organizations was taken in order to best establish connection points across the site as well as creating the most interesting means of cutting through the complex. Each study includes the rotation of the original grid set putting the participants in constant communication with the systems currently in play.

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The Relationship, a project from research.

In the last 50 years, Detroit has been home

last things outsiders associate with Detroit.

of space, utility, resource, and machinery.

to racial tension, riot, protest, strike,

But drive the streets and you quickly realize

With rentable studios and collaboration

automotive and architectural decay; “ruin

the city possesses an energetic, grassroots

space, the process of making and production

porn” is at the forefront representing

creative class that not only spreads color,

would become transparent, and the public

Detroit’s historical aftermath; meanwhile,

whimsy, and provocation across the

would begin to engage with and be apart

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landscape, but also serves as an engine of

of this process. The hope is to create a

creativity beginning to fill the voids and ignite

redevelopment.”

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a storm of positivity for a city deemed by

teamwork and collaboration, begin to

media as negative and bleak. The city itself is

Branching off this original research, the

redevelop the visual landscape of Detroit as a

now becoming the source of inspiration for

objective was to transform the Globe Trade

means to fight blight with art and vision.

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The Strategy, a siting in Detroit.

The strategy seemed quite simple. The site

engages the idea of further developing the

the Globe Building across and throughout the

was provided, The Globe Trading Company

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new park landscape in order to establish a

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be additions to the state park as well. This

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South), Franklin Street (to the North), and

would in turn create a central island of public

a game of new and old in play while trying

the Dequindre Cut Greenway (to the East). To

activity, that which is the Globe Building. By

to negotiate and maintain the architectural

the South and East of the site is both built

turning the Globe into the central artery of

integrity of the Globe Trade Building.

and proposed land for the Milliken State

the park place, all aims for the project would

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The Plan, an experience.

The plan for the complex was derived from the initial cut through passages. These pathways helped to delineate an organizational pattern and flow of movment throughout the project. The ground floor is seen as the primary exhibition space, leaving the scale of the spaces for the most part as is, allowing for large scale installation and performance to take place. In addition, there is a small black box theater, a bar for daytime and night-time festivities, as well as the fabrication shop space. On the first floor, we begin to move up into the more â&#x20AC;&#x153;privateâ&#x20AC;? spaces. The studios are available for rent and can be outfitted for the live/work scenario as part of the project brief, accompanied by a fine boutique restaurant and a gallery space overlooking the vast ground level. The second floor holds the least of the program. There are additional studio spaces along the southern face of the building with a retail area running up through the roof truss of the machine shop addition. Again, ideas are in constant play with the current logics set up within the building...where were programs places previously? how can this new program mesh with the history of the space?

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The Light, a delineation and organization.

In reaction to the idea of painting the ground surface to highlight the pathways through the building, the concept of lighting the Globe Trade building became the focus of attention for the remainder of the project. The lights would be carried over the same pathways, another endeavor of rendering the space explicit throughout the project. However, the lights were beginning to play with the notion of scale, by both decreasing and expanding the scale to and from the manufacturing and the human levels. The lighting tracks create volumes of light (as seen in the drawing on the left). It would be the lighting system that begins to create the atmospheric energy and productivity of the space. The light becomes the beacon for which the new Globe stands in place for. It is atmospheric, it is spatial, it is welcoming. In addition, as a means to begin connecting the public park exterior program to that which takes place inside the Globe, the lights again serve as the connection point during the day carrying ideas and people to and from, and overnight the constant glow radiates and transforms the landscape.

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The Building, an exterior elevation.

Part of my task for this project is to use a light hand of intervention. Essentially clean up the space to the point of inhabitablity, and as the progress is made within the city at large, or even site specific, then further development can take place. The project is based entirely on the current building; current systems of organization, strucutral layout, facade patterning, etc... The elevations were highly considered in designing the cut through pathways, as additional garage type doors and openings needed to be created so as to have a smooth transition from the exterior to the interior. Here in the drawings above, I have highlighted the areas of interest in red, making sure no windows were interrupted; ideally nothing irregular or out character would be taking place.

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The Pavilions, a new structure.

Derived off of the geometric organizaton and configuration of the facade, these pavilions would become the end game for the project. A place to house public park activities and amenities to fully encapsulate the Globe Trade building, and stand true the objective of this project to establish an island of activity within the Milliken State Park. The pavilions utilize stock material so as to not require customized pieces and or assembly, but as they build out from the facade in single sets, they start to rotate and reorganize themselves into a framework for the inhabitants and participants of the G-TAC to reformulate and establish place within site. The bike tours and rental stand could move into one of these pavilions, an outdoor music venue could inhabit one, bring programs like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Arts in the Parksâ&#x20AC;? to this new site in Detroit, The Detroit Electronic Music Fesitval, etc... There are many ideas and uses of these pavilions and perhaps they do not get used, they could still attract an audience to partake in activities around them, the space within the Globe and around the new park boundaries will be acitivated by the simple energy these creative individuals possess.

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Kayak: 5 mph

Jet-Ski: 65 mph

Detroiters have had a long-time love affair with Fishing Boat: 15 mph

transportation. Known for the birthplace of the mass produced automobile, the city sits on a network of roads, rails, rivers, and paths.

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marinas, and concert venues. Pan out further and the site becomes a part of a larger network of riverfront bars, biking and walking trails, inner city clubs, and open fields. In its current

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state, the Globe has become an abandoned

Motorcycle: 75 mph

legacy to the industrial might Detroit possessed Snowmobile: 75 mph

well into the 20th century. Its future however is bright with a new purpose, one which ties

Automobile: 75 mph

the mobility of Detroiters into a single point of

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to snowmobiles, and kayakers to ice skating.

up from entrances on the Dequindre Cut,

initial approach, grades throughout the path,

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St. Aubin Transient Marina, Franklin St.,

material, length, and the final exodus from

programmatic conditions regardless of what

and the Tercentennial State Park which

the structure. Paths are also meant to be

Detroiters use to get around town.

ultimately links up to the Detroit River Walk.

transcended from one another, so that users

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and stairs throughout the building. Uses

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Phase 0: Current Site Context The building is shown in its current site context (courtesy of Google Maps). St. Aubin Transient Marina is visible to the East, while the historic harbor and Detroit River are directly South East of the Globe. The Dequindre Cut bike and pedestrian path is located against the East side of the building, with Atwater St. running perpendicular to the southern termination point of the Cut. The entry to the Detroit River Walk is just visible in the bottom left corner of the map, which currently dead-ends into a sidewalk that jogs up to Atwater Street. Chene Park lies just beyond the Marina North East of the Globe.

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Phase 1: Excavation and Demolition Demolition of the existing roof, interior walls, and remaining glass would be the first steps taken in the revitalization of the Globe. The harbor would be extended into the building in order to provide access for Jet skis and kayaks. A kayak practice pond/ice rink would be excavated to a depth of 3 feet North of the building, yielding a total cut of 372,827 cubic feet. Trenches for new circulation path footings would be dug as well as those for added underground plumbing and electrical conduit. The brick facade of the Globe would be removed at points of intersection with the circulation paths and temporarily shored up. Structural steel columns would be sand blasted of rust and repaired as needed.

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Phase 2: Circulation Preparation Once excavation was complete, footings for exterior circulation paths would be reinforced and poured. Circulation paths within the Globe would have reinforcing drilled and epoxied in place assuming the existing slab is able accommodate the added forces placed upon it by the path retaining walls. The harbor extension would have its retaining walls formed and poured and the kayak pond would be outfitted with a slurry liner. Modular ‘Reinforced Concrete Tunnels’ (RCT’s), which would be ordered from a precast company much the same way reinforced concrete pipe is, could be moved into place at all facade penetrations allowing temporary shoring to be removed and steel columns to be cut and welded onto embeds cast into the RCT’s. All underground electrical and plumbing would be installed and site wide backfilling would commence. The fill requirements for the paths would be 365,287 cubic feet of soil, which balances out the dirt excavated from the harbor and kayak pond during phase 1.

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Phase 3: Circulation + Site Improvements All structural steel would now be coated to resist further weathering. CMU retaining walls would be built along circulation paths and dirt placed and compacted between them. Paths would be constructed to a minimum width of twelve feet to ensure equipment can maintain access throughout all locations inside the building. At this point, Atwater St. and Orleans St. would be removed around the Globe and sod would be installed to extend the park area to the entrance of the Riverwalk. Paths built up on the South end of the Dequindre Cut would provide a buffer for pedestrian users against motorized traffic while allowing safe access up and down the Detroit River. As paths are backfilled and compacted, final ground finishes such as concrete, rubberized flooring, wood decking, grass, and dirt could be installed throughout site.

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Phase 4: Programmatic Build-out With circulation finalized, construction would begin on kiosks and warming huts. These units consist of wood framing and translucent plastic panels which allow them to be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hungâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; from the existing steel columns. Though they match the vernacular of the RCTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, they have no structural ability and instead serve as places of gathering and retail. All kiosks would be outfitted with plumbing and electrical, as well as roll-down security grills so that localized merchandise can be locked up while the main building stays open. Divided into districts throughout the Globe, kiosks would be available for recreation businesses such as kayak and bicycle shops to lease in 6 month increments. This leaves the kiosks open for seasonal changes that occur in recreational activities, such as selling running shoes in the summer, and renting cross country skis in the winter. Likewise, the kiosks adjacent to the front pond may rent kayaks during the summer and ice skates in winter. These units would be heated and vacant kiosks would serve as warming huts for general public use. In this way a small targeted area would be efficiently heated instead of the entire Globe Building.

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Phase 5: Final Assembly At this time Orleans St. would be repaved to enter the North-West corner of the Globe and pass through under the pedestrian circulation paths onto Atwater St. The Detroit Riverwalk would also be extended to the paths terminating on the West side of the site. The Riverwalk, Dequindre Cut, and St. Aubin Marina would now be linked continuously without having to cross Atwater St. or any other major roads. To maximize sunlight within the building, a corrugated plastic roof would be installed over the entire span of the Globe, providing 24 hour shelter from rain and snow for users who are moving throughout Detroit.

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Write It In response to 47% of Detroitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adult population being illiterate, The Globe Institute is a facility that offers an elite group of educators and teaching fellows with the ability to provide feedback and insight for talented and aspiring writers. Local and traveling writers and thinkers can have the chance to teach and explore the backbone that makes Detroit unique. Located near the Dequindre Cut and Detroit Riverfront Walk, the Writing Institute allows for multiple opportunities of having public interactions year round, creating written inspirations from local experiences.

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Globe Building Cut Formally with respect to the site and the existing Globe Building, the design decisions to remove portions of the building were done in order to bring more natural lighting in to the central spaces of the structure. General moves in extracting the middle was done along the guidelines of the existing structure and remove optimal columns, beams, and trusses. These decisions were also made to allow more public interactions on the ground level towards the center of the Globe Building with the central area creating opportunities of retail spaces, cafe, pub, gallery space with the educational program elevated above the public interactions.

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to become closer and view the building and its hardware.

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Level_Interact Level Interact: The ground level of the facility is situated around the public circulation that runs directly through the building site, creating a central courtyard space where students and public can interact.

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The context around the Globe Building Above: Panorama looking northwest from the top of the hill just southwest of the building between Atwater and the river. Left: Dequindre Cut headed south toward the Globe Building. Right: Intersection of Orleans St. and Woobridge St. looking northeast. Far Right: Orleans Woodbridge Intersection looking southwest.

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The current zoning around the Globe Building remains the same as it was during higher density mixed use days of more active times. This creates an interesting situation where whatever comes next, though likely to be lower density than before, has the opportunity to develop in relationship to rules of high density.

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The narrow streets reminded me of my second home in Busan, South Korea. While Detroit is not and will never be dense enough to replicate the street scenes of the city in Korea, the closeness and frontality that exist(ed) in urban Detroit seem to offer a potential for something interesting to immerge that plays with residents sense of and desire for greater density of services and resources.

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Process sketches and diagrams from earlier in the term that speak to the idea of creating the open facade that gives a site frontality while not requiring building behind it to fill the site.

452 Riverfront Conservancy and Park Development The slow growth of the riverwalk and system of parks and recreation has begun to change the overall perception of a part of Detroit that has been inactive for a long time.

Source: Panoramio Cobo Center

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Detroit GENERAL MOTORS BALANCES RISK & REWARD. page 104

PROFILE:

JEFF DANIELS' FAVORITE DETROIT EATS. page 109

DAYTRIPPING: ANN ARBOR. page 110

JACK NICKLAUS ON BUSINESS, GOLF AND GRANDKIDS. page 130

5 MINUTES WITH BURT REYNOLDS. page 145

INSIDE THE BREAKERS & BOCA RATON RESORTS. page 147

Palm Beach County

MOTOR CITY MOMENTUM From Motown roots to automotive expertise, Metro Detroit has helped drive America forward for over a century.

PROFILE:

OASIS OF OPPORTUNITY There are only two things as bright as the economic outlook of Palm Beach County—its constant sunshine and top-rate talent.

Delta Airlines’ Sky Magazine is already juxtaposing Detroit’s new waterfront with much more attractive waterfonts in more tourist friendly and tropical areas.

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Removal of the facade The initial move is to remove most of the facade to completely open up the Globe Trade Building site to public recreational and leisure.

The structural frame will be refurbished and fitted for future insertions of prefab housing and office space. The longterm goal of the site will be to have a diverse use and inhabitation of prefab units secured within the structural frame but until interest increases enough to bring more occupation to the area, the globe site strives to be a successful extension of the other recreational spaces being constructed now; the Dequindre Cut and Milliken State Park.

455 Iron and Steel Refurbishment Rusting can be prevented by applying diverse protective coatings (e.g. brush, roller, immersion, spraying) and by galvanising processes. The surfaces must first be cleaned of all rust, oil, grease and old paint by way of grinding, blasting or acid treatments. Immersion and galvanising cannot be carried out in situ. The combination of galvanising and painting (duplex method) offers better protection. Joints and small cracks can be made good with putty (formerly containing red lead) and boiled linseed oil or finish coat. Natural pigments, graphite or silicate paints are mixed with water, glass, tar and asphalt and bonded with linseed oil and varnish.

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Proposed Parks (Currently Abandoned Lots) Detroit Riverfront Conservancy Parks Globe Trade Building Current Buildings Dequindre Cut

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458 Expanding the End of the Dequindre Cut Currently, the Dequindre Cut ends in a nondescript way as it slips bhind the high walls of the Globe Trade Building. This cause a problem as it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t achieve its biggest ambition, which is to connect those who have walked or ridden down the cut to the new paths along the riverfront. I propose that the Globe Building, instead of hiding the end point of the cut, can intself become the grand entrance, exit point.

Dequindre Cut Currently Ends In the Shadow of the Globe Building

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Proposal to have the cut end within the remains of the Globe Building

460 Process of removing floor to allow for a new landscape to immerge inside the Globe.

Parts of the original concrete ground floor will be removed to allow for raised beds to be placed.

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463 Creation of and desire for good public space Lighting and seating have been added along the Dequindre Cut and as part of the investments in revitalizing the infrastructure of the area.

These small scale improvements have a large impact on the appearance of inhabitability of the space.

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Photos above Source: Google Street View

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The tranformation of the Elevator Building may hint at the new confidence building in the area as a response to the construction of the Dequindre Cut bike path.

Photos above Source: Google Street View

468 Perspective/Axon Exploded Simplified Explanation of Inserted Program

(Exploded Diagram describing two units currently inserted into the design and the exhibition space behind the slice of wall thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been preserved on the Southwest corner of the Machine Shop.)

An exhibition space sits behind the one section of wall that will be preserved and provides public access to information on the history of the building and Detroit.

One section of the facade will be kept in order to remember the original character of the building.

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Live units on the East Side of the building are inserted into the former Machine Shop.

The units hang from the large cross member that extends between the trusses.

Work units on the West Side of the building sit between the columns.

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Le Jardin de Fonderies, Nantes, France, ADH: Doazan and Hirschberger Website, http:// www.doazan-hirschberger.com/.

483 Precedent Le Jardin de Fonderies in Nantes, France, dealt with a similar context to ours. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Project is the transformation of a long unused factory and warehouse district into a large working and housing neighborhood.â&#x20AC;? (Paisea, #016, pg. 34)

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System 3, New York, USA, Oskar Leo Kaufmann/Albert Ruf Website, http://www.olkruf.com/.

Casa Minga, Dumay Arquitectos Website, http://www.dumayarquitectos.cl/.

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Precedent Samples of some inspiration for thinking about what might be able to be built within the structural grid of the Globe Building.

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490 The Normal, volume 3 is a book of studio work produced and assembled by students in the M.Arch graduate option architecture studio at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning under the direction of studio critic Christian Unverzagt in the Winter of 2011.

The work is produced as an academic inquiry into the history of Detroit and its current condition relative to fifty-years of post-war American prosperity.

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The Normal.

Grotesque. Projects.