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PLACE DES INTERACTIFS Harvard GSD Option Studio: Montreal is Back • 2015 Renée Daoust + Aisling O’Carroll 08-25
MOSCOW MOUNTAIN Harvard GSD Option Studio: MKAD: Sexy Beast • 2015 Martha Schwartz + Markus Jatsch Coastal Embayments
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THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE CAPE Harvard GSD Core III Studio • 2014 Pierre Belanger • Niall Kirkwood ammonium
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FIN Harvard GSD Responsive Hydrologies: Cyborg Coasts • 2015 Bradley Cantrell 48-57
(re)STITCH AND INVIGORATE CSU Comprehensive Landscape Design • 2014 Jane Choi 58-65
LOOMWORKS CROSSROADS Fifteenth Annual Greater Boston Affordable Housing Competition • 2015 The Community Builders (Partners) 66-75
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Harvard GSD Option Studio: Montreal is Back • 2015 Renée Daoust + Aisling O’Carroll On April 27, 1967 Place des Nations hosted over 8,000 people for the opening ceremony of Expo 67 which many refer to today as the most successful world exposition in history. Place des Nations was the physical manifestation of the expo’s overarching themes of global unity and forward thinking progress while Place des Nations acted as the ceremonial epicenter of the event. Today, Place des Nations exists as a mere shadow of it’s former iconicity, recognizabe only by the nostalgio invoked to those who experienced Expo 67 firsthand. Establishing Place des Interactifs as an urban beacon for the city of Montreal, invoking sensory appeal, and equipping the site with a set of infrastructures suited to promote a variety of programs will establish Place des Interactifs, once again, as the symbolic and beating heart of Montreal. By integrating activity and interactivity in all of the embedded design elements, Place des Nations can once again recapture its own unique identity while maintaining it’s cultural and historical significance as a relic of Expo 67.
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Illustrative Plan
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Sensory Dock | Visual
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projected expo shadow shell
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Sensory Dock | Aroma
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Swan Lake planters
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Swan Lake viewing area
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Sensory Dock | Sound
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evergreen backdrop/ windbreak
lower sound dock
Montreal skyline viewport
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Connection to Plaza | Aroma Dock L AC D E S C YG N E S B O A R D WA L K
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HELI OTROPE Heliotropium arborescens
JAPANESE MAPLE A c e r p a l m at u m ‘d i s e c t u m ’
FLOWERING TOBACC O Nicotiana tabacum
DIANTHUS Dianthus barbatus
S W E E T A LY S S U M Loburlaria maritima
F OUR O’C LOC K FLOWER Mirabilis jalapa
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EASTERN REDBUD Cercis canadensis
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RED BUCKEYE Ae s c u l u s p av i a
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CONCERT Small to medium enevts/ c o n c e r t s. Sh ow n w i t h 2,200 people 7, 0 0 0 m a x c a p a c i t y
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responsive ground light grid
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expo bike racks
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Harvard GSD Option Studio: Sexy Beast: MKAD • 2015
Martha Schwartz & Markus Jatsch Traffic and congestion in Moscow is more than just a transportation issue. The city of Moscow relies on its central node, the Kremlin, as its center for government, tourism and work. 66% of people work in the Kremlin. This massive amount of influx results a commuting time of over three hours for 44% of the population. This quantity only stands to increase as the population of Moscow continues to grow, making transportation a key issue in the future of Moscow. OMA’s proposal for the future development of Moscow highlights 4 airports as nodes for growth in attempt to decentralize the city. One of the nodes identified by OMA is designated for Research and Education. In order to achieve such ambitions, something must be developed that rivals the Kremlin’s appeal as governmental, occupational, and tourism destination. a new icon for the city of Moscow. The Mountain is located within a site that is in the process of development as an education corridor with backing from tech companies and universities. The Mountain acts as an economic driver for the research and education campus as well as a new cultural icon for the city of Moscow.
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THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE CAPE Harvard GSD Core III Studio â&#x20AC;˘ 2014 Pierre Belanger â&#x20AC;˘ Niall Kirkwood
Collaboration with Enrico Evangelisti and Brett Keese From 1936 to 1995 wastewater from the Massachusetts Military Reserve was dumped in a sequence of infiltration beds located on the south edge of what is now the Joint Base Cape Cod. This half-century long practice has resulted in a groundwater plume that spans from the JBCC to the coastal embayments located in Falmouth, Cape Cod. The polluted groundwater has resulted in a loss of plant and animal diversity and has threatened the drinking water in the area. The Good, The Bad, and The Cape capitalizes on positive aspects of seemingly problematic elements in Cape Cod by introducing a phytoremediation strategy that not only cleans the polluted groundwater but also produces biomass. This hybrid phyto-coppice harvesting strategy introduces a paradigm shift in traditional remediation methods and exploits the groundwater plume as an economic catalyst as well as an exhibitional remediation strategy for Cape Cod and future polluted sites.
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Site Intervention Plan
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FIN
Harvard GSD Responsive Hydrologies â&#x20AC;˘ 2015 Bradley Cantrell Collaboration with Andrew Boyd Over the course of hundreds of years, a chain of barrier islands formed around the Mississippi River Delta. These islands have unique benefits not only to the people in Mississippi, but also to the organisms living in the waters between the barrier islands and the shoreline of Mississippi. In addition to their ecological importance, barrier islands play a critical role in protecting the coast from hurricane events and storm surges. Over the past several years in attribution to sea level rise and hurricane events, the barrier islands that skirt the coast of Louisiana are starting disappear. While dredging canals and using the spoil to rebuild the barrier islands is common, the need for a more responsive process is needed if we hope to continue to benefit from these unique landforms. Using barrier islands as a launching point, FIN aims to explore the possibility of manipulating land formation through the coreography of prototyped FIN devices. To thoroughly explore this phenomenon, a systematic documentation of water and sediment flow against an array of rotating fins is recorded and a notation system to understand the stochastic distribution of flow and deposition is developed. While the investigation was limited and scaleless, the simplicity allowed a formal understanding of these relational patterns.
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CSU Comprehensive Landscape Design • 2014 Jane Choi What was once the center-piece of the city of Tampa, the Hillsborough River currently functions as a mere stepping stone for work-goers when entering the business district of the city. By exploring the call to return the Hillsborough River to it’s once vibrant state, we can begin to rethink not only how a city works with a river, but also uses it to create a thriving urban environment. The (re)Stitch and Invigorate proposal spotlights the Hillsborough River as the key revival agent to the city of Tampa by implementing an ecological infrastructure that promotes remediation, interaction, and occupation within the heart of the city. As with many city rivers, The Hillsborough is the victim of a dense hardscape of parking lots, buildings, and roads. The surface runoff and stormwater deposition has polluted the river and dramatically reduced the both the vegetal and aquatic diversity and abundance to a point that it is no longer a desirable aspect of the city. The strategy for the Hillsborough River takes the shape of a dynamic remediation scheme by integrating a system of wetlands and basins with designated open spaces and transition zones that create a multitude of areas for occupation that critiques traditional “master planning” strategies. The literal “stitching” of pedestrian bridges across the river, a rejuvenation and expansion of the city street car, and implementation of auto-alternative access routes weave the business district with the adjacent side of the river showcasing the Hillsborough River district as an ecological artery for the city.
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URBAN FOREST Sabal palmetto - Palmetto Carya aquatic - Water Hickory
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WETLANDS
Liquidambar styraciflua - Sweet Gum
Rhizophora mangle - Red Mangrove
Taxodium distichum - Bald Cypress
Juncus species - Rushes
Magnolia grandiflora ‘D.D. Blanchard’ Magnolia D.D. Blanchard
Cyperaceae species - Sedges
Podocarpus macrophyllus - Podocarpus
Spartina alterniflora - Smooth Cordgrass
Ulmus americana ‘Floridana’ Florida Elm
Phalacrocorax auritus Double-Crested Cormorants
Halodule wrightii Shoal Grass
Mercenaria mercenaria Hard Clam
Quercus virginiana - Live Oak
Nycticorax nycticorax Black-Crowned Night Heron
Thalassia testudinum Turtle Grass
Panaeus esculentus Northern Pink Shrimp
Acer rubrum ‘Autumn Flame’ - Red Maple
Ardea alba - Great Egret
Syringodium filforme Manatee Grass
Crassostrea virginica Eastern Oyster
Rynchops niger - Black Skinner
Plegadis falcinellus - Glossy Ibis
Tursiops truncatus Bottlenose Dolphin
Argopecten irradians Bay Scallop
Pelecanus occidentalis - Brown Pelican
Sterna hirundo - Common Tern
Trichechus inunguis West Indian Manatee
Menippe mercenaria Florida Stone Crab
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Boston Affordable Housing Competition • 2015 Mentors: Jennifer Molinsky + M. Russell Feldman Worcester’s Main South neighborhood is home to a nationally respected university and a public school that President Barack Obama has praised as being high-achieving. There are also over 1,300 children living in poverty in Main South, and 45% of neighborhood residents receive food stamps. Loomworks Crossroads builds stability in Main South through a development program that supports families and veterans, a design that connects to and builds on neighborhood assets, creative financing for homeownership and supportive rental housing, and a comprehensive approach to community engagement. Collaborators: Andrew Cantu Harvard GSD MUP ‘15 • Matthew Furman Harvard GSD MUP ‘15 • David Henning Harvard GSD MUP ‘15 • Virginia Keesler Harvard GSD MUP ‘15 • Yifei Lu MIT MCP ‘16 • Vanessa Moon Harvard GSD MUP ‘15 • Marcus Pulsipher Harvard GSD MLAUD ‘15 • Robert Wellburn Harvard GSD MUP ‘15
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O NEIGHBORHOOD ASSETS G. A. University Park Campus School
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A public school (grades 7-12) jointly operated by the City and Clark University, UPCS has generated positive outcomes, including 95% college attendance by graduates. H.
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A top-100 research university, with roughly 2,300 undergraduates and 1,100 graduate students. Clark has actively supported community development efforts in Main South since the late 1980s and operates as an Loomworks Crossroads open campus.
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C. Main South CDC Founded in 1988 with financial support from Clark University, the CDC builds affordable housing and operates workforce development programs.
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D. Kilby-Gardner-Hammond This $32.5 million collaboration between the Main South CDC, Boys and Girls Club, Clark, and the City converted 30 acres of blighted land into over 80 housing units and open space.
A. University Park Campus School
E. Boys and Girls Club
A public Loomworks school (gradesCrossroads 7-12) jointly operated by the City and Clark University, UPCS has generated positive outcomes, including 95% college attendance by graduates.
The organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new clubhouse includes a gym, boxing ring, a swimming pool, classrooms, and a multipurpose room.
B. Clark University A top-100 research university, with roughly 2,300 undergraduates and 1,100 graduate students. Clark has actively supported community development efforts in Main South since the late 1980s and operates as an open campus.
C. Main South CDC Founded in 1988 with financial support from Clark University, the CDC builds affordable housing and operates workforce development programs.
D. Kilby-Gardner-Hammond This $32.5 million collaboration between the Main South CDC, Boys and Girls Club, Clark, and the City converted 30 acres of blighted land into over 80 housing units and open space. 68 E. Boys and Girls Club
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F. University Park This sanctuary received a $1.5 million facelift in 2013, with $1 million coming from Clark.7
G. Alumni and Student Engagement Center Clark plans the construction of a new building at the top of Grand Street, increasing lighting and safety on the street.
H. Loomworks I and II The Community Builders recently completed a 94-unit, mixed-income development that rehabbed the abandoned Crompton & Knowles Loomworks.
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92 Grand is a paved, vacant lot
One two sides, 92 Grand Street abuts triple-deckers
The site is adjacent to formerly industrial buildings, including TCB’s Loomworks apartments
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COMMUNITY VOICES Located three blocks from the site, Main Street is a major commercial corridor
One of 92 Grand Street’s neighbors is a light manufacturing building
University Park is less than a block from site
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“There is an acute daycare need in Worcester. Before kindergarten there is a gap in child care, but waitlists can often exceed this gap”
“What we need is jobs, more open space, green space, and stable homes”
Ron Hadorn Executive Director
“[the neighborhood is looking for] low density, owner-occupied housing, a development scale that is appropriate and design thatʼs contextual”
Steve Teasdale Executive Director
Anne Vinick Community Life
“Part of our conversation about the next stage of development has been that people are looking for economic development and jobs”
Jack Foley Vice President for Government and Community Affairs
“As the triple-deckers get older, the real question is whether they still serve the cityʼs need? Stated differently, is the money invested in rehabbing them a worthwhile investment?”
Loomworks Crossroads aspires to augm community partnerships that are curren to strengthen Main South. To this end, t insights from conversations with the lea organizations, including the Main South Club of Worcester, Clark University, the Housing Alliance, the City of Worcester Massachusetts Planning Commission, a
Danielle Lavriere Public Education & Advocacy
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Protected playground
Gateway Plaza
Mixed-use building with daycare and 40 apartments
Community garden plots
Resident garden plot
Community grass area
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Rooftop shade structure for barbecue food prep for parties
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Duplexes with 10 DESIGN PRINCIPLES homeownership units & 10 rental units DESIGN PRINCIPLES Design
The development goal of Loomworks Crossroads is to create a stable and family-oriented neighborhood of choice. designs respond to the physical conditions of the site, 60 While 120the site plan and 240architectural ft The development goal of also Loomworks Crossroads to create a stable and family-oriented neighborhood each decision has been made with thisisgoal in mind. of choice. While the site plan and architectural designs respond to the physical conditions of the site, each decision has also been made with this goal in mind. 0
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Shade structure for picnicking 39 Parking spot
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The design creates an inviting space that serves both the residents The design positions Loomworks Crossroads as part of a To successfully stabilize a neighborhood, design needs to be Connectivity Interactivity Stability of Loomworks Crossroads and the neighborhood. A hierarchy of neighborhood hub that is vibrant and active. Loomworks flexible. The homeownership units create a stable, long-term 70 public spaces physically brings the community together, helping Crossroadsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; unique modular furniture scattered throughout the in the community, while the apartments meet the needs of m The design creates an inviting space that serves both the residents The design positions Loomworks Crossroads as part of a To successfully stabilize a neighborhood, design needs to be to create the informal networks from which a community grows. gateway plaza invites play, creativity, and interaction. At the transient populations, such as recent immigrants and studen of Loomworks Crossroads and the neighborhood. A hierarchy of neighborhood hub that is vibrant and active. Loomworks flexible. The homeownership units create a stable, long-term asset
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The proposal relies on an amendment to the current zoning, RG-5, Zoning to overcome the need for housing with street frontage. We intend to pursue cluster zoning, outlined in the Worcester Energy Generation & Savings The proposal relies on an amendment to the current zoning, Zoning Code. All cluster zoning requires a special permitting Residual Space Engaging Spaces Consolidated Parking to overcome the need for housing process and necessitate that the whole site is controlled by a with street frontage. ves resident quality of life Loomworks Crossroads features a 7 kW solar array on RG-5, the entity.intend Implementing a landcluster banking strategy would not By absorbing and filtering south-facing side of each duplex roof. Main Southsingle CDC We to pursue zoning, outlined in the Worcester only ensure that the houses remain19% affordable in perpetuity, but IMPERMEABLE duces water pollution as well as previously installed solar panels on the duplexes in the KilbyZoning Code. All cluster zoning requires a special permitting nsolidated Parking would conform to this requirement. We are confident that such flow. Green infrastructure also Gardner-Hammond development. According to aMain South process necessitate that the whole site is controlled by a permit would beand granted.
CDC Executive Director Steve Teasdale, these panels reduced single entity. Implementing a land banking strategy would not This choice would also require a special permit in order to resident energy costs by 70% annually. GREEN ROOF
ing shading and deflecting solar infrastructure are particularly he city’s previous problems with S. Environmental Protection for sewer overflow in violation South is one neighborhood stem, with risk of combined Design
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ensure that houses affordable in perpetuity, but reduceonly accessory parking on the the site. Underremain the current zoning, two spaces are required per to unit. Ourrequirement. proposal reduces the would conform this We are confident that such PVWatts calculator, powered by the National Renewable parking ratio to 1.21 spaces be per granted. unit. As a result of Loomworks a permit would Energy Laboratory, indicates that the array on each duplex easy access to public transit, commercial options, SEMIPERMEABLE Crossroads’ 22% 19 and entertainment, this ratio would allow the development would produce about $1,182 of electricity per year. to operate provision a curbsideadrop-off Thiseffectively. choice The would alsoofrequire special permit in order to pick-up area for the daycare, as well as the fact that the reduce accessory parking on the site. Under the current zoning, The purchase and installation cost for TCB wouldand amount development has three street frontages for on-street parking, to approximately $23,100/array, or $231,000 total.further Thetwo 30% spaces are required per unit. Our proposal reduces the manages vehicular access.
Private Green Yard Design
Backyard Parking
Permeable Area further74% manages vehicular access. 74% Permeable Area COMPOSITE
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Several curb cuts
Backyard Parking
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Site plan permeability
We intend to pursue cluster zoning Zoning Code. All cluster zoning re Engaging Spaces process and necessitate that the wh single entity. Implementing a land Cubic fee Cubic Fe only ensure that the houses remain water absorbed Water Ab would conform to this requiremen rain eve in 90% Rai a permit would be granted.
Consolidated Parking
This choice would also require a sp reduce accessory parking on the sit two spaces are required per unit. O parking ratio to 1.21 spaces per un Crossroads’ easy access to public tr and entertainment, this ratio would to operate effectively. The provision and pick-up area for the daycare, a development has three street fronta further manages vehicular access.
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s Stormwater Toolbox, powered federal Solar Investment Tax Credit would lower this cost to parking ratio to 1.21 spaces per unit. As a result of Loomworks Vast Hardscape Shared Amenities d Technology, suggests that Areas $161,700. Crossroads’ easy access to public transit, commercial options, 59% PERMEABLE tormwater runoff by 4,195 cubic and entertainment, this ratio would allow the development 10 D Neighborhoods standard of The project would also incorporate ENERGY STAR efficiency to operate effectively. The provision of a curbside drop-off h capture over a given site’s measures, aiming to reduce energy use by 13%. and pick-up area for the daycare, as well as the fact that the ng to 1,082 cubic feet for this Conventional Site Plan Proposedhas Sitethree Planstreet frontages for on-street parking, 12,13 development rivate Green Yard decreases by 26,528 SF. Conventional Site Plan Proposed Site Plan
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Street Lighting
Tree Canopy
Enhanced street lighting at Loomworks Crossroads (A) and Clarkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alumni center (B) street safety corridor
Denser tree canopy creates seamless transition from Loomworks Crossroads (A) to University Park (B)
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