D I S R U P TI N G TH E A project that urges its users to break the orderly cycle of their everyday life to experience exploration of the built environment.
CONTEXT
VISION
The site is conveniently located within walking distance of Downtown Phoenix in the historic Warehouse District.
The overall concept for this project is to demonstrate the history of Phoenix’s street grid organization and how canals, washes and railroads slice through this orderly system. These disturbances to the city’s grid are vital to its inhabitants because without the canals and railroads, the city wouldn’t be able to thrive. “Disrupting the Gird” is a project that urges its users to break the orderly cycle of their everyday life and experience something new.
This 5.2-acre urban space accomplishes this concept with public art installation space that cycles with new art regularly. Leonardo daVinci says; “Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” These installation spaces symbolize the positive disturbances that are essential to the vitality of humans, similar to the breaking of Phoenix’s grid.
EXPLODED AXONOMETIRC DIAGRAM
SITE PLAN
Underground Parking Entry
In addition to art, the layout of the site is organized to where the outer walkways and buildings represents a grid, and a series of paths and water features in the middle disrupt that framework. The architecture of the new restaurant and retail space includes terraced planting areas that frame the center of the site so that when you are in there, it feels like you are in a valley, influencing you to explore the contents of the space.
Trees
Hotel Turf Pool Shade Structure
Buildings
Hotel Pool Walkways
Hotel Main Entry
Grade / Water
Park Entry Water Feature Outline of Parking Structure Ramp to Roof Terraced Green Roof
2) CENTRAL WATER FEATURE
Restaurant Entry At-Grade Patio 2)
Interactive Water Feature Art Installation Plaza
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Event Space / Shaded Plaza
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Shallow pool and stepping blocks is more exciting than a traditional splash pad and can be aesthetic as well as playful.
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Water Feature Roof-Top Patio / Green Roof Ventilation For Patio Stairwell From Parking
Updated Restaurant Patio The Duce Lawn 1/8”=1’-0”
Park Entry Water Feature
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3) ART SPACE
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1) SECTION ELEVATION Ramp to Patio
Terraced Landscape Area
Water Feature
Hotel
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Patio / Green Roof
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Restaurant
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Art installations will be placed and regularly changed to excite and interest users.
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Restaurant
The plaza is placed between the green terraces to give the space more of a secluded feel.
Seating Area
Underground Parking
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HUMAN COMFORT DIAGRAM
Cool air from directional winds creates air movement for a more ideal environment during warm months. Openings in the roof of this overhang allows for warm air to escape and creates more ventilation for increased human comfort.
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4) SOUTH ENTRY
“The needs for heating and cooling a structure reduce drastically due to the thermal efficiency of green roofs. Acting as natural shade and a heat-absorber for a building, a green roof can significantly reduce cooling costs by as much as 25%.” (go-gba.org).
“Shaded surfaces may be 20–45°F cooler than the peak temperatures of unshaded materials.1 Evapotranspiration, alone or in combination with shading, can help reduce peak summer temperatures by 2–9°F” (epa.gov)
Green walls enclosing the patio helps to block harsh winds in the winter.
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Water flows out of the top of the concrete blocks, cascading down the sides to create a soothing sound and block out the noise of traffic. A shallow pool of water invites people to run their hand or foot through it.
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LDE 362: Spring 2018 Landscape Architecture II
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Student: Maria Maurer Instructor: Kristian Kelley