SUBURBAN TACTICS PROGRAMMING VOIDS IN SUBURBIA
American suburbia over the past half century has created voids within both public and private spaces. Public-private thresholds become boundaries that separate neighbors causing social inaction. Examining the situations found in many neighborhoods within the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, suburban voids become programmed through the implementation of suburban tactics that respond to social connectivity, economic sustainability and environmental symbiosis, resulting in a holistic neighborhood on multiple scales.
ISSUE_SUBURBAN HOUSING IN A SPRAWL CITY
POSITION_URBAN CORE
MANIFESTATION_URBANIZED SUBURB
ANA . BIOTIC (sub)URBANISM ANABIOTIC SUBURBANISM noun 1. a resuscitation of life within the suburbs resulting from social activity, economic stability and environmental symbiosis through the collection of varied anecdotes of suburban neighborhoods.
TACTICAL FRAGMENTS
The tactical fragments are three case studies of anabiotic suburbanistic growth. From a tactical approach, the first changes to the neighborhood are hypothesized to begin from the desire to be more socially active followed by the economical and environmental paradigms. Each change to the neighborhood responds to the immediate needs of the homeowner, the needs of the neighborhood and the needs of the city.
THREE THRESHOLD CASE STUDIES
2_CORE
1_INTERSECTION
SITE PLAN
3_CORRIDOR
4_CITY
N.T.S.
1_INTERSECTION
REALITIES
2_CORE
3_CORRIDOR
The previous fragments dealt with social conditions of public spaces while this case study layers in the realities of how to utilize the void spaces within the house and transform them into social, economical, and environmental spaces that diffuse out into the community fabric. The long term goal is to densify the neighborhood not only in population, but also in activity to produce an identifiable suburban community, which responds to the social inactivity found in many neighborhoods within suburbia.
CONNECTION TO CITY
After the transformations are complete from suburban tactics, a private-public partnership happens among the residents, the city, energy providers, and Arizona State University. The partnership allows for the development of an infrastructural addition in the public space of the alley and city for socially active space, economic stability and environmental symbiosis.
ADE 622 / INT 622: Spring 2015 Advanced Architectural Studio IV / Advanced Interior Architectural Studio IV
Students: Marissa Mendoza, Tyler Sternberg Instructor: Milagros Zingoni