ANDRES E MENDOZA GUTFREUNDTHESIS

2007 Veterans Affairs Dept Budget

$037,189,000,000

US Military Veteran

$399million Research Expenses

$1.3ththousand/veteran

2007 United States Military Budget

$463,025,000,000*Estimated future emergency funding for the Global War on Terror is not included.

Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor

$62billion Research Expenses

$137.5million /raptor

Demographic Analysis Invisible Disabilities

Veterans Civilians

Veterans in Homeless Population

33%

Daily Suicides

18

23%

PTSD Veteran Population

31%

Unaccounted Veterans for Disability Compensation

National Spatial Analysis

0 - 420,000

420,000 - 840,000

840,000 - 1,260,000

1,260,000 - 1,680,000

1,680,000 - 2,100,000

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2008 Veteran Population

National Spatial Analysis

$ 2,530 - 3,300 / vet

$ 3,300 - 4,300 / vet

$ 4,300 - 6,000 / vet

$ 6,000 - 8,100 / vet

$ 8,100 - 38,900 / vet

0 - 420,000

420,000 - 840,000

840,000 - 1,260,000

1,260,000 - 1,680,000

1,680,000 - 2,100,0000 300100 Mi

2008 Veteran Population vs VA Expenditure

Regional Spatial Analysis

$3,7ththousand/veteran1,026,289 veterans

3,762,506,000 dollars =

VA Expenditure - Veteran Population Discrepancy

Networks

Performance

Optimization

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274,7781,118 245.8

324,140338959.0

244,100821297.3

72,2053,45320.9

149,93236,6084.1

128,86011,73511.0

77,3423,32623.3

23,9573,0737.8

125,2705,37523.3

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$ 2,000 - 3,000 / veteran

$ 3,000 - 3,500 / veteran

$ 3,500 - 4,500 / veteran

$ 4,500 - 5,300 / veteran

$ 5,300 - 6,000 / veteran

700 - 20,000 vets

20,000 - 40,000 vets

40,000 - 60,000 vets

60,000 - 80,000 vets

80,000 - 100,000 vets

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Military Installments

NY Counties in Critical Need of InterventionRegional Spatial Analysis

NY VA Medical ServicesRegional Spatial Analysis

Canandaigua

Albany

Syracuse

Montrose

Batavia

Buffalo

Castle Point

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Manhattan

Brooklyn

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New York, New YorkLocal Spatial Analysis

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Veteran Center

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Distance btw Medical Centers

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Brooklyn War Memorial Brooklyn NYSite Analysis

Brooklyn War Memorial No Man’s Land Urban Battleground

The site addresses demands for (geographic & programmatic) connectivity and visibility: Downtown Brooklyn is a vibrant urban center and a transportation hub for the New York City Metropolitan Area; the location of the Brooklyn War Memorial and the Korean War Veterans Plaza enable a micro-network of institutions to be established with nearby academic, judicial, medical, and military entities.

The Brooklyn War Memorial Park & Korean War Veterans Plaza are interpreted as an urban no man’s land, a disputed ground between two transited trenches. Its artificially turfed landscape provides no urban connectivity as it lacks a circulatory system and no programmatic vibrancy as it has insufficient spatial diversity. It frequently becomes, however, a political battleground for public demonstrations.

The site tactics aim to enable urban connectivity, programmatic vibrancy, and semantic friction: the park is conceived as an urban battleground where dialectic conflicts take place between the Brooklyn War Memorial & the rehabilitation center as well as between landscape & architecture; smooth and striated spaces are employed to create spatial relations between these contradictory forces.

BKLN VA Medical ServicesProgrammatic Analysis

Health Care

Hours of Operations24 hrs.

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Spectra of Typology & Environments

FieldInternalized LandscapeLandscape Strip Perimeter

Programmatic Analysis Programmatic Conditions

Architectural ConflictsFormal Investigations

LandscapesFormal Investigations

LandscapesFormal Investigations

Scattered ConsolidationConceptual Strategy

Categorize Consolidate Relocate

Split Shift Scatter

Scattered ConsolidationConceptual Strategy

Program Consolidation Public-Program Insertion View Orientation towards On-Site Programs

Urban BattlegroundSite Plan

Field - Strip - PerimeterPlans

InvestigationsDesign

InvestigationsDesign