[CNU Illinois Pecha Kucha Presentation] by Tyler Wade

GOWANUS FROM RESILIENCE TO SUSTAINABILITY

A STUDIO DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER MILLER, PH.D

JUSTIN BANDA KAY HAVLICEK TYLER HOPWOOD MARVIN REYES TYLER WADE ANDREW WITEK

Cobble Hill

City-wide Connections

Carroll Gardens

Boreum Hill Park Slope

Red Hook Surrounding Neighborhoods

South Slope

IBZ

Connecting Streets

Connecting Subway (1/4 Mile Radii)

Industrial Business Zone (IBZ)

Topography (10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Increments)

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Regional Composite Analysis

Transit station w/ 1/4 mile walking circle

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A Sustainable, Resilient, Environmentally Healthy Community Invest in Our Parks, Schools, Transit, and Waterfront Strengthen the Manufacturing Sector and Create Good Jobs

Keep Gowanus Creative and Mixed-Use Preserve and Create Affordable Housing for an Inclusive Community

Secure a Pathway for Responsible Growth

Residential Narrative

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Narrative

3 Industrial Business Zone (IBZ) Narrative

PROPOSED PHASING PROPOSED PROPOSED PHASING PHASING PIONEERPIONEERPIONEER

Pioneer Plan

INTERMEDIATE INTERMEDIATE INTERMEDIATE MATURE MATURE MATURE

Intermediate Plan

Mature Plan

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FOUND IN: Main Street Neigborhood Street (T5/T6) Rowhouse elevated entry/at grade

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Flats with shared stair (tenament)

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Flex Street (T5/T6/Special District) Open Floor Plan (1-2 story at grade)

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Head of Canal

Market Center

Arts District

Transit Oriented Development Commercial Transit District

Industrial District North

The main goals to achieve in this node were to create a public space to celebrate the historic industrial buildings at the end of the canal, and to form a connection from the park to the canal activity. This area will serve as a Butler St. Creating pubic space natural ending of a path of public space along the canal, close proximity to Market to with celebrate the historic Central and eventually to the highest industrial buildings at theexisting end residential density of Gowanus in the public of the canal, and expanding housing towers to the South.

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Axonometric View 1” = 50’

the park to connect to The headthe of the canal orThis nodearea one ofisour canal. the northern natural half of our master plan intoof ending of atakes path A C consideration the future need for housing public space along the canal, Section Cut [Reflecting Pool Between Bond St. and Nevins St. ] after the Superfund and priorities from 1” = 32’ D with close proximity topiece. the Bridging Gowanus as an inspirational highest existing One approach was to make theresidential Gowanus Canal waterfront accessible in by the densitypublicly of Gowanus redirecting the canal using historical public housing towers.

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A. Shows a snapshot of the historic pump house being renovated into a museum. The existing pump house will be relocated on Degraw Street. B. Leading to the head of the canal will feature a green/paved path that will reliven the canal and make it more approachable. The pathway will be flanked with retail for a safer community. C. The community center features outdoor areas for private and public events and gatherings. D. A reflecting pool will allow people to commemorate the canal and allow for a communal space for gatthering and ice skating in the winter. E. A gathering open space that allows for a diverse culture to exericise a multiplicity of activities.

Degraw St.

Nevins St.

Bond St.

Degraw St.

buildings as an organizational strategy. I placed an accessbile reflecting pool running from Degraw St. to Douglass St. and adding a and smaller one Section Cut [Reflecting Pool Between Douglass St. Degraw St.]on axis with the historic 1” = 32’ pump Degraw St. E house and the ASPCA memorial building. Another approach was the priority about improving parks, schools, transit, and waterfront. In this case the addition of shared streets allowing for humanly paced movement encompassing human, cyclist and car traffic; three shared streets have been added connecting to Douglass St. Degraw St. and Market Central. And finally the addition of a community center relates Sackett St. the activities in the disconnected park for all season use and outdoor activities featured in N the public space along the canal side. B Nevins St.

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Market Center

Center

Market Center

This second node was developed as a neighborhood market center of Gowanus. The proposed market is located between Union Street and Carroll Street, two of Creating a neighborhoodthe existing streets that bridge the Canal. Union Street is the highestof existing center scaled center Gowanus of activity in the neighborhood, strong focused around awith market connections both within Gowanus and to surrounded by the densest the greater Brooklyn area.

Axonometric View 1” = 50’

Section Cut Through Canal and Nevins Street 1” = 32’

Section Cut Through Union Street and Carroll Street

Axonometric View

Carroll Street

Shown is one option on how the market building and market area could be phased within the same phasing of the urban plan. The pioneer phase provides space in an existing parking lot for people to gather along the canal and develops the highest density residential and commercial buildings. The intermediate phase consists of continued residential and commercial development as well as the first stage of the market building. The mature phases further develops the surrounding fabric and creates an addition to the market building. This potential version of the proposed market building consists of two enclosed portions not at grade, spanned by an atgrade open air portion and fronted by a public plaza. This would allow phasing within the development of the market as would best suit the community at the time.

Union Street

Nevins Street

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surrounding the market is one-story open President Street interior buildings. Those facing the market would be replaced with 4-7 story at grade flat or mid-rise buildings. This proposed change has two goals: (1) to increase the residential density of the area within quick walking distance to promote the market as a neighborhood market and (2) to increase activity during non-market hours, as most of the proposed buildings could be developed with commercial space (retail, restaurant, etc) on the first floor, with residential above.

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Nevins Street

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Canal Street

Bond Street

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Bond Street

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area of commercial activity paired appropriate To increase ease of with circulation to and from the market, three existing streets increases in one-way residential (Union, Carroll and Nevins) are proposed to density with the aim of be converted to two-way streets. The two creating a stronger sense of blocks that face the market from across the This is the canal arecommunity. reconfigured to twoarea north/south highest center of blocks split by a newexisting two-way street. Nevins Street is activity also to be south toward in extended the neighborhood, the next as node, extending the existing block it is intersected by half of structure. the streets that bridge the Most ofCanal. the existing building fabric

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Arts-Focused District

Arts District

The Arts District aims to support the creative nature of the neighborhood while revitalizing one of the neighborhood’s most beloved buildings currently sits Creating anthat arts-focused unused, district the Batcave.within The Arts District Gowanus, encourages people to participate in local aiming to support the creative culture and community.

B Artist Lofts

nature of the neighborhood while revitalizing one of Keep Gowanus Creative the neighborhood’s most The historic Batcave is formed into an beloved buildings Arts that Center, full of galleries and working artist currently the E studios. This building sits gives unused, room for small Batcave. manufacturing and artists to create and sell Section Cut Across Canal Between Second Street and First Street Basin Axonometric View

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locally. It is a creative space for local artists and a multi-use venue for events.

D Inclusion of Mixed-Use With the inclusion of Artists Lofts along with mixed use residential and retail along the canal, the Arts District provides interconnectedness where both businesses and residents can mutually benefit. This place allows people to work, live, and play locally giving a sense of community.

Invest in the Waterfront This site provides a walkable canal and connections to the surrounding area. With the addition of residential housing across the street with locals shopping and dining, it becomes a destination with dining and shopping along the waterfront with double N sided shops. Plan View 1” = 64’

Sustainable and Resilient Environment The restoration of the First Street Basin, next to the Batcave, provides a wetland shelf that acts as a Sponge Park, absorbing and filtering storm water runoff. This improves the quality of the waterway and promotes sustainability of the local environment.

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Industrial District North While home to many industrial business types, the outdated building forms housing these businesses is hindering the potential growth of businesses in the area. A lack of diversity in building type and connections to greater Gowanus also hinders District North from becoming a vital part of Gowanus urban fabric.

Transit-Oriented Development

Intermediate Phase

Mature Phase

Spectre Street

land in Gowanus that would support a redeveloped transit station, while aiming to meet the desire for substantially-increased residential density within Gowanus. Creating a transit oriented development the biggest Not only is the increased density forinthe sought after land along the canal,of butunderit also or nonstretch serves as a mechanism utilized to provideland housing in Gowanus for the growing need thatthat is the middle would class. support a The phrase work-force housing is housing redeveloped transit station, for the middle class population living intoor meet the while aiming around Gowanus and also for new desire formiddle substantiallyclass moving to the areaincreased from the residential increase density of jobs in the Industrialwithin Sector. It is hard Gowanus. to find affordable places in Gowanus and surrounding areas because of the lack of density and variety of building types.

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The Transit-Oriented Development is offering a variety of building types that can be more dense than the current residential fabric existing in Gowanus. In order to keep rent prices down and keep people in Gowanus, developing a shared street along the canal that is fronted by commercial first floors allows people in proximity and variety of classes represented.

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Along with the development there will be an additional school and library to serve the other needs of Gowanus. Both of these types will provide a communal place for the people of the new development to go to and strengthen the characteristic of Gowanus.

CommercialCommercial Transit District

District

Transit

Redeveloping the transit station at 9th / Smith in order to support both the nearby Redeveloping the Con the west transit-oriented development of transit station at sector 9th /onSmith in the canal and the nearby industrial to developing support both the the east of the canal,order while also the transit station as a nearby commercial center that transit-oriented compliments the market commercial center development on the west near the opposite corner of Gowanus. of the canal and the nearby

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This district focuses on two distinct sectors, east of of the the transitcanal, while the thoughtful terminus also the transit oriented community on the developing west bank of the station as aof the commercial Gowanus Canal, and the continuation Industrial Business Zone (IBZ) on compliments the east center that F the onometric View bank. Bordering bothmarket sectors oncommercial the south is center = 50’ the diagonal-north-south Hamilton Avenue,corner of near the opposite with the multi-lane highway I-278 passing E Gowanus. overhead. The highway itself is a unique Plan View 1” = 64’ existing condition that offers a surprisingly D definitive border to the Gowanus region, as it slices the majority of the IBZ off from the ction Cut [Huntington St under the elevated rail facing north] rest of Gowanus.

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To complement the primarily-residential neighborhood immediately to the north, the western side of the canal is densely populated with high-end commercial in and around the transit station, while further south thenorth] area transitions to an urban college ction Cut [9th St curved facade of the transit station facing = 32’ campus zone, in the vein of similar urban campuses like the Metro Tech business and educational center that lies four miles north along Smith Street.

The IBZ side of the canal is populated with densely-packed, small-scale industrial Axonometric View 1” = 50’ buildings, with a handful of larger openfloorplate buildings strategically placed to take advantage of 9th Street’s unique placement as a connecting tissue in the fabric between Gowanus and Red Hook to the east, in order to promote affordable light-industrial business to stimulate the Section Cut [Huntington St under the elevated rail facing north] southern Brooklyn economy. 1” = 32’

Map Legend

A. Facing south on Smith just north of the 9th St/Smith transit station. B. Facing north on Smith just south of the 9th St/Smith transit station. Section Cut [9th St curved facade of the transit station facing north] C. Facing east on 9th looking across the canal.

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