TAYLOR TIDWELL “When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. but when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it’s wrong.
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-R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
EMAIL: taytidwell24@gmail.com PHONE: 303/731/7153
TABLE/OF/CONTENTS chapters sorted by project
01 SEOSOMUN/MEMORIAL/PARK located downtown seoul, south korea
02 BOSTON/LIVING/WITH/WATER located downtown boston in the Boston harbor
03 URBAN/STRATEGY located downtown denver at the 10th and osage lightrail stop
04 RIVERSIDE/PARK located along the shore of the poudre river in fort collins, co
05 REPRESENTATION/SKILLS photography, models ranging from 3d to hand made, alabaster stone, laminated wood, hand drawing, fabrication
06 TECHNICAL/DOCUMENTS grading plans, construction documents, planting plans
The Seosomun Memorial Park was
a unique design opportunity in that the park itself was already a religious grounds. But more than that, the park has three stories of hollow infrastructure underneath it. Having a 30 foot void underneath the site allowed for a unique opportunity to remove all top soil and infrastructure to reveal the 30 foot deep void. The design is meant to be experienced much more as space relating to the memorial itself rather than its function solely being a park.
SEOUSOMUN/MEMORIAL seoul, south korea
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EXISTING/CONDITIONS W
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Traffic impacting site
Train running through the park
Open space/parks
Accessibility: bus and train stops
Religious and cultural buildings
Taking out the void underneath the site allowed space to
create a design that draws people down and into the memorial heart. The premise of the design is a living catacomb. Having the memorial being sunken allows visitors to wonder down into the site, and go down again to explore the glowing catacomb memorial piece. Lighting plays a huge part in this design and again plays off of the idea of going down into a catacomb which is usually dark and decrepit. The living memorial is a well-lit and densely vegetated site where people can come and enjoy the presence of life rather than death.
Concept design: Living catacomb,
Lantern to the city
Existing site conditions
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Removing cap to reveal 30’ void
DESIGN/PROCESS
Hollow site after removing cap
2.Inside view
1.Topside Perspective
Sunken rail line Perspective views Circulation flow
PLAN/VIEW
diverted train route
1.Top perspective
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2.Inside view
The Boston Living with Water
competition involved designing a new sustainable and self-reliant peninsula off of the Boston coast. The design team was C2 studio, two graduate students, and two undergraduate students, consulting with Paul Lukez Architects. The main design strategy was to purify flowing water through the ‘Hydrokinetic Canal’ by adding in oyster beds, brackish wetlands, compost zones, as well as introducing local hardy vegetation to the region to clean up any excess toxins and polluted waters in the harbor.
BOSTON/LIVING boston, ma
TAYLOR TIDWELL Prespective by: Matt Bombard, Long Li, and Myself
The competitions main focus was to be
able to redesign the peninsula in a way that would mitigate and manage any storm surges to relieve flooding and further damage to the coast line. The other main concern for the competition was to design a city plan that was prepping for the estimated 7 feet of sea level rise in the next 50 to 100 years. The tidal studies focused on specific coastal ecologies, how they absorb and slow water, as well as experimenting with adding more coastline to allow for incremental water level rises as well as become a new barrier between the city itself and any future storm surges to come.
TIDAL/STUDIES
CURRENT LOW TIDE
50 YEAR HIGH TIDE
100 YEAR HIGH TIDE
Prespective by: Scott Carmen, Long Li and Myself
Wetlands integraded with walking paths W
hen the team first started design ideation for softening and reviving the canal edges and coastal fronts, the first move was to start thinking about incorporating large undulating wetlands in the civic corridor. Once this idea started the team began to think about adding in culverts between the canal and wetlands. What this allows for is to have fresh water mixing with salt water whenever the tide rises and reaches the culverts level to spill into the wetlands. Designing brackish wetlands allowed for a much more diverse ecosystem as well as inviting a wider array of birds to come and use the site. Although creating a diverse ecosystem was very important, the team also wanted to create a dynamic and exciting civic space for the locals to use as well.
Axon of canal and wetlands juxtaposition
The largest obstacle to overcome
was designing civic space along the canal with such tight space constraints. The constraints only allowed for about 50 feet on each side of the canal. To mediate this issue the team decided to create an asymmetrical canal and remove the walk ways from the western wall of the canal and add that volume onto the eastern side allowing for double the space. This allowed our team to incorporate full bike and pedestrian pathways along the entire canal. In doing this we also created 13 more feet of storm water retention area.
section of canal with no west pedestrian paths
Aerial perspective of brackish wetlands
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Section of flooding levels
Prespective by: Matt Bombard, Long Li, and Myself
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owntown Denver is undergoing a large scale revitalization of its more run down areas. The project site was located at the 10th and Osage light rail stop and extends south about 20 blocks into the residential areas of downtown Denver. The focus in the project was creating a new multimedia transit stop and text center district. The problems with the site focused on was how to create a pedestrian friendly barrier between the train and the people. Accomplishing this without completely cutting off circulation and obstructing views of the site making pedestrians feel isolated was the main objective.
URBAN/STRATE denver, co
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URBAN/STUDY
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green swaths with radial plan
2
connecting nodes and arteries
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The ideation phase began with the idea of trying to incorporate
large vegetated swaths into the city and to begin to design and plan around that. This first idea came to a halt as we began to see this was highly impractical. We then began to study the main nodes and parks in our design district and searching for solutions to connect them through a series of public transit lines, walking paths, bike trails, ect.. Once we had a loose structure built with the node web we started to add in more complex systems such as pedestrian arteries, cluster living developments, and a public transit layout to connect the whole city district.
main axis with webbed city
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Nodes integraded with walking paths
Final master plan
Master plan 1st iteration
MASTER/PLAN
When focusing on my portion of the design, the goal
was to design a stripped transit line through our business tec center and shopping area. The challenge when designing this corridor was that the pedestrian traffic is very high and there are no set barriers between people and the moving train. The found solution to creating a new barrier was to implement thick vegetation and water storage canals along the edge of the rail line with four circulation gaps to allow for uninhibited flow of pedestrian traffic when the train is not running.
Master plan districts
Design focus
transit station
AREA/OF/FOCUS
East facing perspective TAYLOR TIDWELL
Inspiration for this design was the urban plazas in central Europe.
These plazas generally took more of a circular shape because they were created by the organic flow of foot traffic. The form mimiced this shape because the site is purely pedestrian and when the train is not running it will only function as an outdoor plaza. The surrounding buildings will be allocated as a shopping and business district. Considering the site is foot traffic only, the circular design has integral bench seating and plenty of shade provided by the plethora of trees and the large shade structures on either side of the train stop.
Night time aerial
West facing perspective
Day time aerial
The riverfront wetland park design is a
project site that is very dear to the city. The site incorporates a decommissioned rail line, abandoned factories, and a large natural area with degraded wetlands. The site right now is hardly used but full of potential to design a park that would really liven up the city of Fort Collins and create a gateway to the city. The design proposal includes a wetlands boardwalk as well as restoring the natural vegetation along the river’s edge to improve the health of the shore lines. The main reason for these design solutions is to show the citizens of Fort Collins how crucial and critical abandoned open space can be to the environment and how improving it can impact the city and future eco systems.
RIVERFRONT/W fort collins, co
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1 ripple
2 mounding
6’ x 1’ clay boards
3 retention
4 circulation
IDEATION/CLAY/STUDIES
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organic
SITE/DESIGN
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Path system
Site boundary
Contour design
Master plan
The site edge is rough and full of hardscape which hinders the ability of and storm water retention. Fort Collins experienced the importance of retention and absorption basins during the 100 year flood in the 90’s and the 500 year flood in 2013.
The steep front on the south bank of the river allowed for the opportunity to design steep landforms and create a diverse and winding river edge. This undulating river edge is not only for aesthetics but it will slow the rate of flow, absorb more water, and become a retaining basin during future flooding.
WETLAND/BOARDWALK The board walk is such a large part of the River Front Park design because it is the main
place for pedestrians to come and really interact with the environment and park itself. Most of the park is planted with wild flower fields and rangeland grasses that are native to Fort Collins and Colorado. The planting pallet for the park was chosen so that the park would require minimal maintenance and the least amount of outsourced water. Changing the definition of a park from soccer fields and gazebos to a natural and functional space was the main goal in this design. A park is not only a place for recreation and leisure but can also hold vital functions to a city in storm water retention and wild life habitats.
Wetlands boardwalk perspective
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The model was designed with chip board and colored paper. It was important to design a full scaled detail model so that the viewer can really see the park in its entirety. Only so much can be seen in perspectives and sections. As important to detail as sections and perspectives are, a lot of times it is very hard for the viewer to get the bigger picture of the design and how the grade changes work on a practical level. Physical models also allow for the displaying of the main areas where the water will be stored in large storms.
PHYSICAL/MODEL
Technical skills are comprised of 3d
and physical model making, fabrication, and photography
REPRESENTAIO photography/models/fabrication
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SKETCHUP/MODELS All models built during Fort Collins city planning internship.
New Belgium Brewery
Lincoln center
City planning building
Discovery museum
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Aztlan community center
New Pres. Church
Urban strip park: shadow
Life guard stand balsal wood
Urban strip park: kinetic
wood/chipboard/foamcore
Life guard stand balsal wood
MODEL/MAKING
Berkana recovery garden
Berkana recovery garden
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Berkana recovery garden
Plaster self portrait
Plaster self portrait
Hand chiseled alabaster
Hand carved wood
SCULPTURE/FABRICATION wood/alabaster/plaster
Laser cut baltic birch
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Laser cut baltic birch
I
was enrolled in an independant art study in the sculpture and fabrication department of the College of Arts. In this study I focused on form, texture, and lighting. The mediums I used were experimental for larger scale projects and designs.
Laser cut baltic birch
San Fransisco, CA
Fort Collins, CO
Italy
France
Paris, FRA
Denver, CO
Fort Collins, CO
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Geen River, UT
TECHNICAL/DOCUMENTS construction/grading/plans
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PLANTING/ GRADING
CONSTRUCTION/ DETAILS TAYLOR TIDWELL
DISCOVERY MUSEUM GREENWALL
PLANT LIST Symbol Dc Vr H Ar Mr Au
Latin name
Common name
Size
Quantity
Delosperma cooper Veronica repens Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’ Ajuga reptans Mahonia repens Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Hardy ice plant Creeping speedwell Coral Bells Carpetweed Oregon grape holly Bearberry
6” 2” 6” 6” 3” 4”
254 147 26 231 153 392
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