Tulane Regional Urban Design Center: Student Work, Fall 2012

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East Development of JINTANG, CHENDGU, CHINA David Campanella 5th Year Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Development Zones The new development of East Jintang is broken up into three distictive zones, which are organized around the existing river and university conditions. The zones consist of a variety of building types including single family residences, mixed use residential towers, low-rise commercial, and high-rise office towers. Municipal functions are arranged along a riverfront park.

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Mixed-Use/Low-Rise Commercial Tulane Regional Urban Design Center

Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Drawing Title Subtitle Municipal/Low-Rise Commercial Tulane Regional Urban Design Center

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Jintang Public Avenue and Greenspace CJ Gassam

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Fall 2012

The existance of public green spaces are critical elements of growing metropolitan population centers. Given the westward expansion and population growth of Jintang, a public green space would serve as an effective buffer between various activity and use zones in future development schemes. This plan assesses the merits of a public avenue and park space.

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Commercial Green Space Residential

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Urban Activation Zone

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Urban Activation Zone Aerial

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Urban Central Park

Aerial

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Central Intersection Artist’s Conception

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Central Intersection

Aerial

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15’

Section 1

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35’

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15’ 3’ 7’

Section 2

Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Jintang New Town

Masterplan Proposals

Yueqi Jazzy Li & Michael Kirschner 5th year Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Context photos of old town Jintang

Individual Project I Yueqi Jazzy Li This proposal focuses on the idea of giving back the waterfront to the public as green spaces and civic amenities. The two islands are also integrated and connected by newly built foot bridges to form a pedestrian friendly network of green space.

The rest of the new town are laid out into 10 smaller districts. Rather than have a central business district, the commercial buildings are planned to spring up in the area in an organic fashion.

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Drawing Title Subtitle

Overall Masterplan

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Riverfront Section Waterfront Stadium Pittsburgh

FDR Memorial by Louis Kahn

Urban Island Park Section

Riverfront Highway / Promenade Section Shanghai Greenway

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

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Render This image shows the view from one of the two islands in the river looking at the master planned new town. The stadium can be seen in the distance and the elevated highway floats in the foreground.

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Render This bird’s eye view image showcases the threshold between water and land and between green space and urbanized space.

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Fall 2012

Individual Project I Michael Kirschner This proposal centered on creating accessible waterfront park space and real estate to encourage urban and economic expansion. A continuation of vehicular infrastructure was woven into a grid east of the river. Commercial and residential zones were incorporated into a layout allowing for effective transportation networks to be established and to give university students access to a large portion of the city. The industrial sector is positioned to the northeast, preventing river, noise and air pollution from affecting the general population. Park space and community sites along the river attempt to create an active public corridor and promote bicycle and pedestrian activity.

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park section

street section

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river area section

city section

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Rendering

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

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Collaborative Project We focused our collaborative efforts on the public as green spaces and civic amenities. The two islands are also integrated and connected by newly built foot bridges to form a pedestrian friendly network of green space.

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Rendering

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Rendering

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Rendering

Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Rendering

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Revolving Urbanism

Michael Bosio 5th Year Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

This project takes place in a developing city in China. The city has multiple elements which currently exsist that had to be taken into consideration when designing a master plan. Located to the East a small university sits near the edge of the footage hills. There is a stream which the client has asked to perserve. The river divides the city into the old and the new only linked by bridges.

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Bike Trail Walking Path

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Government/Civic Central Business District Low-rise Commercial School Zone Multi-Family Residential Retail Zone Farmers Market Single-Family Residential

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Government/Civic Central Business District Low-rise Commercial School Zone Multi-Family Residential Retail Zone Farmers Market Single-Family Residential

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Figure Ground Map Tulane Regional Urban Design Center

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Fall 2012

Youth Sporting Complex

City Zoo / Nature Preserve

Amphitheater

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

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10’ 8’ 12’ 12’ 10’ 10’ 7

Building Height 60’

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Government/Civic Central Business District Low-rise Commercial Multi-Family Residential Single-Family Residential

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

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Jintang Greenbelt

Michael Kahn 5th Year Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Arena Site

Riverside Stadium Site

Dam Overlook Park

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This plan for East Jintang proposes blocks of between 700’ and 1000’, meditating between the large-scale development of western Jintang and the small-scale nature of the historic centre. A greenway runs along the river and, with planted boulevards, encircles the city, connecting the existing universities with the new civic institutions. The CBD is bounded by the river to the west and the universities to the east. To the south, lining an avenue which breaks the grid, is the government centre which, at the river, resolves into a cultural cente with library and museum. To the north of the CBD, separated by a large park at the top end of the greenbelt, is a reisdential section of the city at a smaller scale than the central city.

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Arena Site

Riverside Stadium Site

Dam Overlook Park

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Active Frontages

primary commercial corridors with active frontages to provide for vibrant street culture

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Arena Site

Riverside Stadium Site

Dam Overlook Park

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Bike Paths

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Bik ing Tra ils

the city is well equipped with bike paths which run in designated right-of-ways or single-use lanes on boulevards

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2 storey 3 storey 4 storey 5 storey 2 storey 3 storey 4 storey 5 storey

6 storey 7 storey 8 storey

Arena Site

Riverside Stadium Site

Arena Site

Riverside Stadium Site

Dam Overlook Park

Dam Overlook Park

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Streetfront Heights

street wall heights yield the perceived scale of the neighbourhood and delineate primary, secondary, and tertiary corridors

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6 storey 7 storey 8 storey

Arena Site

Riverside Stadium Site

Dam Overlook Park

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Greenbelt

East Jintang is encircled by a greenbelt connecting all major civic institutions and providing a promenade along the river

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sidewalk

bike lane sidewalk parking lane

parking lane travel lane

median / turn lane travel lane shared transit lane bike lane

shared transit lane

median / turn lane 16’

10’ 6’ 13’ 16’13’ 13’ 6’ 10’13’6’ 6’ 18’

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sidewalk

travel lane parking lane

18’ 12’

travel lane median

8’ 13’ 13’ 13’ 10’ 8’ 13’ 13’ 13’ 10’ 18’ 12’

median

travel lane sidewalk parking lane

travellane / turn lane travel

travel / turn lane

Secondary - Bikeand Path and Transit Secondary Street - Street Bike Path Transit CorridorCorridor

sidewalk

travel lane sidewalk parking / hook turn lane

travel lane turn lane parking / hook

travelshared lane transit lane

travelmedian lane

shared transit lane

median

Primary Traffic Corridor - Non-Transit Corridor Primary Traffic Corridor - Non-Transit Corridor

8’ 13’ 13’ 13’ 10’

18’ 12’ 18’ Primary Traffic Corridor - Transit 12’ Corridor

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Primary Traffic Corridor - Transit Corridor

CBD

all streets which define the super-blocks of East Jintang are 100’ wide, providing for light at street level and space for transit

Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Aami Park - Yarra River - Melbourne

Soldier Field - Lake Michigan - Chicago

Park Heinz Stadium - Allegheny River - Pittsburgh

Riverfront Stadium

sited in the riverfront park, situated between the river promenade and a major north-south commercial corridor of the CBD, the stadium stands as a monument to the city, both visible from, and providing views of, the old city across the banks of the river

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Commercial / Resi

Stadium 100’

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250’

500’

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8’ 13’ 13’ 13’ 10’

18’ 12’

8’ 13’ 13’ 13’ 10’

sidewalk

parking / hook turn lane

travel lane

travel lane

median

shared transit lane

Primary Traffic Corridor - Non-Transit Corridor

18’ 12’

Primary Traffic Corridor - Transit Corridor

Bourke Street- Melbourne

CBD Artery

the artery streets of the CBD serve three lanes of traffic in each direction with tram running in mixed traffic in the centre lane, divided by a planted, lit median - to facilitate the flow of tram traffic, left turns are completed using the right lanes in hook-turn fashion

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Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

24’

setback

sidewalk

13’ 13’ 6’ 10’

travel lane

bike lane parking lane

shared transit lan

median / turn lane 16’

24’

16’

13’ 13’ 6’ 10’ 6’

sidewalk

bike lane parking lane

travel lane

shared transit lane

median / turn lane

Riverfront Parkway - Bike Path and Transit Corridor

18’

24’

setback

sidewalk

13’ 13’ 6’ 10’

travel lane

bike lane parking lane

16’

shared transit lane

median / turn lane

Secondary Street - Bike Path and Transit Corridor

24’

16’

13’ 13’ 6’ 10’ 6’

sidewalk

bike lane parking lane

travel lane

shared transit lane

median / turn lane

Riverfront Parkway - Bike Path and Transit Corridor

18’

Secondary Street - Bike Path and Transit Corridor

Government Centre

the party headquarters for Jintang are to be set back from the streetfront of a wide boulevard which slices through the grid of the city south of the CBD, with a scale smaller than that of the city to the north, culminating in monumental civic structures

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Party Offices

Library 100’ 100’

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250’

Offices 500’

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Jintang - New City

Matt Skoda 4th Year - Undergraduate Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Overall View of the New City From the South

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The addition of the New City to Jintang focuses on freeing up green space along the river, as well as two other “branches” of green space that come off of it. Along the river, there is a bike / walking path, a large City Park, and the civic institutions. The city’s residential and light commercial districts are distributed throughout the city, with the Central Business District at the core of the city. Cutting through the CBD is a main boulevard with a large neutral ground that can be occuppied, and contains public sculpture.

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Fall 2012

major circulation paths

modified grid

basic grid

Grids

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CBD

commercial

residential

Zoning

Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

riverwalk, san antonio

riverfront path, oregon

peace boulevard, hiroshima bottom: millenium park, chicago

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Entry View Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Enlarged Plan CBD

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Section Side Street

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Section

Heavy Traffic

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Main Boulevard

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Fall 2012

Section

Main Boulevard

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Main Boulevard

Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Jintang Masterplan

Steven Baker 5th Year Undergraduate Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2012

Existing New

This proposal for Jintang attempts to create a “new” city while maintaining connections to the “old” city. A cultural district is created along the riverfront, with the most prominent institutions located directly across the river, between the existing infrastructure. Beyond the cultural district is a Central Business District with mixed-use buildings, and residential towers.

North of the CBD there is a large urban park, which allows preservation of the land surrounding the river transecting Jintang.

The northern end of the city is a residential district which connects to the ‘old’ city via a proposed bridge.

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Cultural Commercial Green Space

Jintang City Plan

Proposed Districts

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Birdseye View Disrict Divisions

Interpretive Urban Design Seminar

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Primary Street 34’ median 30’ at points to accomodate bus 12’ driving lane 8’ parking lane 6’ bike lane Secondary Street -12’ travel lane -8’ parking lane -8’ bike lane -wider because of adjacent park Courtyard -alley for delivery access -maintains 50’ green space

Design Guidelines Focused Development

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Riverfront -max 4 storey building adjacent park -over 4 storeys min. 100’ setback -array of paths connecting river and street -trees to enhance natural environment -open space for active use - raised mounds for leisure

Focused Plan Cultural District

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96’

48’

8’ 8’ 12’ 12’ 8’

18’

18’

Section Perspectives Secondary Street & Riverfront

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72’

12’

18’

8’ 6’ 12’ 12’

34’

12’ 12’ 6’ 8’

32’

18’

12’ 12’

60’

25’

24’

Section Perspectives

Primary Street & Courtyard

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Rendering Courtyard

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Rendering

Riverfront to Cultural Center

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Fall 2012