Cooler South Mountain Transit
Mitigating Heat through Wind, Shade & Circulation
‘Heat T - Zone’
Opportunities
Site location
Transit Center
Vacant Lots
Huge pedestrian pull
Existing site centered within ‘Heat T - Zone
Cool, ‘desert green’ redevelopment
Within close proximity to heat vulnerable residents
Residential and commercial connectivity
Ed Pastor Transit Center:
S Central Avenue
This site contains a lower percentage of local residents who own a car, a lack of structural and ‘living’ shade,’ and a lack of mobile accessibility, all contributing to higher heat vulnerability scores within the area. Resultantly, this project aims to be a multi-functional and multi-modal ‘cool spot,’ transit center and land-use hub for local residents and visitors alike.
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Site Plan 1) Parking Garage 2) Mixed-Use Development 3) Commercial 4) Transit 5) Pedestrian Plaza
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Broadway Road
Light Rail Extension
Wind Cooling
Circulation Access
Facilitating West - East air flow - long, linear corridors - Infrastructural cooling with Cooling Towers
Target Audience: Local heat vulnerable community - Light Rail Extension - Redeveloped, multi-modal ‘cool transit’
Shade Comfort
5pm July 7th Shade Study - Cooler microclimate temperatures
Multi-functional & Multi-modal Access
Park n’ Go Garage Lot
Cool Spot
Cool Transit
Topped with solar panels to help provide energy
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Mixed-Use
Increased tree canopy shade
Increased infrastructural shade
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Low Impact Development Ecological Infrastructure strategies such as rainwater harvesting and bioretention basins will be utilized in order to sustainably cool transit and pedestrian hub microclimates. Water collection tanks Cooling Towers provide infrastructural cooling Warm, moist air out
Fan Hot water in
Spray nozzles
Fill material Dry Air In
Rainwater Harvesting
Collection Basin Cold water out
LDE 461: Fall 2018 Landscape Architecture Design Studio III
Student: Megan Downes Instructor: P. Coseo, A. Hargrove