Tulane Regional Urban Design Center - Student work, Fall 2011

Tulane Regional Urban Design Center

Student Work

Professor Grover E. Mouton IIIInterpretive Urban Design Seminar

Fall 2011

Tulane Regional Urban Design CenterTulane Regional Urban Design Center

Design Urbanism Seminar Fall 2011

Eric BaumgartnerFourth Year

Layers of Development



I started the development of the Point Cadet North site by looking at the surrounding neighborhood and areas to analyse cir-culation, commerce, and residential zones. The project includes low rise commercial that wraps around a central courtyard which then flows into a large community park. The shoreline is developed with a boardwalk and small kiosk style buildings.


Design Urbanism Seminar Fall 2011Design Urbanism Seminar Spring 2011

Left: Highlighting the residential and commercial areas of East BiloxiRight: Road circulation around the site

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The site is organized in to three zones for community occupation. Built occupation, outdoor occupation, and water front occupation

Site Organization

Design Urbanism Seminar Fall 2011Design Urbanism Seminar Fall 2011

The site is developed west to east with low level commercial development around a courtyard, a large park, and a boardwalk Site Plan and Section


Site View



Leland Bailey BermanFifth Year

Connecting Cadet Point


The design started by looking at how people would enter the site. From these points the paths on the site were created. A focus was placed on connecting the south side of Cadet Point to the fishing pier, casino, and new shrimping pier. The paths become boardwalks across a marshy area in front of the plaza. Paths also started where roads were removed and one forms into the shrimping pier. By removing the existing road it became easier to work with and change the shoreline.

The program for the project is placed to create a enclosed central park that is focused away from the highway (I-10) to the south. The goal was to move people away from the highway and then allow them to focus out on the water.

On the site a shrimping museum that opens onto an extensive plaza that provides access down into the water. is at the center. Along the street edge retail space is provided. A restaurant with a second floor dining deck focused out to sea is closest to the museum. Across the lawn is a major retail anchor store and a music venue that could hold crowds on the open ground.

The design seeks to create an urban street edge with an open aired park on the other side, reacting to both the need for commercial and recreational space.


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Diagram of Site and programThe digram was used to establish how the most direct paths would go. It also help show how blocks of space could be programed most appropiately.

Diagram of Site and ProgramThe diagram was used to establish how the most direct paths would go. It also helps show how blocks of space could be programed most appropriately.


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The 3-D model of the site allowed for more indepth design and spatial understanding. This view aimed at the central lawn shows the nature of the bridge paths and the forms of both the retail an the museum.

Birds Eye ViewThe 3-D model of the site allowed for more indepth design and spatial understanding. This view aimed at the central lawn shows the nature of the bridge paths and the forms of both the retail and the museum.


Restaurant Lawn Plaza


The site section shows the transition from urban to nature walk that occurs at the site. The cut shows the restraunt, with the retail behind it, the lawn, plaza, and water stairs, and the viewing platfrom in the marsh land.

Site Sections

Plaza Water stairs Viewing Platform

Water Stairs Rendering


Nick CusimanoFourth Year

Variating Densities



Biloxi has a rich gambling and tourism history, that has the potential to become greater. The coastline can become as de-veloped and trafficed as similar destinations like Las Vegas, but Biloxi has an landscape like no other. My proposal tries to interlace aspirations of economic growth with regional ecological practices. By looking at contemporary Chinese urban vil-lages with innovative landscaping methods, Point Cadet can be a thriving, sustinable hub in a recovering community.






Site and Precedents

Tulane Regional Urban Design CenterDesign Urbanism Seminar Spring 2011

By researching the different programmatic uses one can see the diverse context of the site. With this date, I envision a microcosm of Biloxi within Point Cadet.

Land Use Survey

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Design Urbanism Seminar Fall 2011Tulane Regional Urban Design Center

Schematic Programming

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Austin FrankelThird Year

Greening Point Cadet


It is important to express and utilize the beauty of the site. There are great views of the Gulf of Mexico. By placinga waterfront park that runs along the length of the site both residents and visitors of the area can benefit from thenatural landscape. To promote economic development of the area and bring more tourists, commercial retail storesalong with a restaurant are placed on the south end closer to the casino row. The educational components of the sitehave a separate more intimate entry and location on the north. This area can be more protected and controlled forgroups and foster a better learning experience. The community garden and fishing pier are ideally located near theresidential zone for security and to promote sustainable lifestyles.

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RENOVATED FISHING PIER

MARINA

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RETAIL

SEAFOODMUSEUM

COMMUNITYGARDEN

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EDUCATIONAL PIERWITHFERRY DOCKS

RESTAURANT

VISITORS & RESIDENTS

EDUCATION & LEISURE

-Seafood Industy Museum + Piers-Community Garden

-Park + Play Space/Fountain-Commercial-Fishing Pier

-Seafood Industy Museum-Retail

-Community Garden-Marina

--Retail & Park-Fishing Pier

--Ferry

It is important to express and utilize the beauty of the site. There are great views of the Gulf of Mexico. By placinga waterfront park that runs along the length of the site both residents and visitors of the area can bene�t from thenatural landscape. To promote economic development of the area and bring more tourists, commercial retail storesalong with a restaurant are placed on the south end closer to the casino row. The educational components of the sitehave a separate more intimate entry and location on the north. This area can be more protected and controlled forgroups and foster a better learning experience. The community garden and �shing pier are ideally located near theresidential zone for security and to promote sustainable lifestyles.


Program Allocation

VISITORS & RESIDENTS

EDUCATION & LEISURE

-Seafood Industry Museum + Piers-Community Garden

-Park + Play Space/Fountain-Commercial-Fishing Pier

-Seafood Industry Museum-Retail

-Community Garden-Marina

--Retail & Park-Fishing Pier

--Ferry


Precedents

Biloxi, MississippiPoint Cadet

PRECEDENTS

SOUTH POINTE PARKMIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA

PIER 84 - HUDSON RIVER PARKMAHATTAN, NEW YORK


Penultimate Plan & Aerial

PLAN

AERIAL


Final Plan


Site Section

INTERSTATE

BOARDWALK PIERS WATERGREENSPACEBALL-PARKS


Trenton GauthierThird Year

Point Cadet Waterfront Park


This project proposes something quieter and less intensive than the typical development scheme.As such, the project aims to stand in contrast to the gaming district that surrounds the site.

The project is a boat launch.It also calls for rebuilding a popular hanger for use during community events and the addition of an outfitters, a fuel dock, a bait and tackle shop, and a gas station as well as parkland, a boardwalk, and an elevated peristyle but all of these are to support and enhance the core experience of simply arriving in the pre-dawn light, backing your boat in, and departing.The park is a simple utility.

It is a celebration of unpretentious living; a peculiar sort of waterfront domesticity I recall disjointedly from my own youth.

You can watch a video flythrough of the project at http://bit.ly/tsa5-ubst-fv


The History of the SiteJanuary 25, 2005 August 29, 2005 August 13, 2007 January 5, 2010January 25, 2005 August 29, 2005 August 13, 2007 January 5, 2010

The History of the Site


Showing the totality of the design.

Aerial View


1. The Peristyle2. The Inlet near the Hanger3. The Boardwalk

Additional Views


The priority is convenience.

Program Diagram

Tackle Shop

Competitive Overlap on Essentials

Convenience Store

Attractive Profits on Non-

Essentials

Outfitters

Existing Marina

Fuel Dock

Waterfront Walk

Museum

Multi-use Shelter WPA-esque Peristyle Boat Launch


Simple notions in placemaking. Precedents include Ando’s Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum as well as his Chichu Art Museum and the Igualada Cem-etary by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós.

Aesthetics

Moments

concrete planes carving through rough topography; mounds of rock and shells

abrupt shifts in scale and view emulate the emergence from cabin to ship’s deck vistas spring from tunnels vastness

the park is built for the quiet pre-dawn launch

Materials

Concrete Low Quality Wood Shells Rocks

\Ruin \Dampness \Darkness \Smell

Moments

concrete planes carving through rough topography mounds of rock and shells

abrupt shifts in scale and view emulate the emergence from cabin to ship’s deck vistas spring from tunnels vastness

the park is built for the quiet pre-dawn launch

Materials

ConcreteLow Quality WoodShellsRocks

\Ruin\Dampness\Darkness\Smell


Dixon B. JelichFifth Year

Restoring an Urban Landscape


The new urban plan for point cadet is focused on the pedestrian walkway and pier. A continuous and fluid circulation plan will provide the user alternate ways to view, experience, and access the piers all from the same path. Returned green space will make up most of the site in an effort to take away from the hard surfaced commercial area and noisy interstate that intersects the site. A return to nature in this area will provide a park like environment in a busy urban setting. The existing maritime museum serves as an educational opportunity for children and adults to gain a perspective on how the gulf coast has sustained life for many years. The topography of the land tappers off towards the water and is lowest at the southern most tip. As a process of bio-remediation, the new landscape will filter all water that is presented to the site as well as run-off from the streets and highway. Cleansing this water before it is returned to the gulf will ensure a positive future for the maritime and seafood industry of the Gulf Coast.


Site


Site and Major and Minor Circulation


Zoning and Flood Plain Map


Plan of Proposal


Aerial View and Section


Sarah KnappFourth Year

“Main Street”



Looking at Biloxi, MS it is easy to see how the resort and casino industries have taken over what was once a small com-munity town centered around the Air Force base. The site that lies as the entrance into this town the design is made to bring the community back into the site. By creating local industry such as small town shops; creamery, sewing shop, tackle and bait shop, the community is given the opportunity to have an escape of their own. While some may argue that the small town aspect may deter the tourism that is already in place, the design also plays to the strength of tourism. On almost all vaca-tions the fast pace atmosphere becomes too draining for a long period of time and the design of a small town main street on the site allows for that slower pace that the already in place tourist can visit for a slower pace.

Site MapThe circles show the main stops along US-90 going through the site.



Looking at Biloxi, MS it is easy to see how the resort and casino industries have taken over what was once a small com-munity town centered around the Air Force base. The site that lies as the entrance into this town the design is made to bring the community back into the site. By creating local industry such as small town shops; creamery, sewing shop, tackle and bait shop, the community is given the opportunity to have an escape of their own. While some may argue that the small town aspect may deter the tourism that is already in place, the design also plays to the strength of tourism. On almost all vaca-tions the fast pace atmosphere becomes too draining for a long period of time and the design of a small town main street on the site allows for that slower pace that the already in place tourist can visit for a slower pace.

Site MapThe circles show the main stops along US-90 going through the site.

The Circles show the main stops along US-90 going through the site. Site Map


Tourism- Looking at Magazine Street in New Orleans, LA as a way for the small town feel to bring tourism to the site.Local Revenue- Main Street America allows the idea of bringing in local stores to bring back revenue to the community.Community- Kitchen Kettle Village, Intercourse, PA, a cluster of smaller shops that the community can partake in.

Precedent StudiesPrecedent Studies


Site Plan

Boardwalk

Small industry

Parking

Seafood Museum Community/ Informational Wall Community Garden

Site Plan


Site Section

Aerial PerspectiveAerial Perspective

Site Section


Interior Perspective


Jake McGregorFourth Year

Green Connection


PROJECT DESCRIPTIONThe project realizes the disjunction between the north and south sides of Point Cadet and attempts to bridge the gap by use of a programmed landscape. In doing so, the identity of Biloxi will grow beyond a glorified casino cor-ridor and hold an identity that is visually accessible to traffic passing on the 90 freeway. Located along the edge of the natural city perimeter, the new “welcome” sign will be in an optimal position to raise standards of living for local dwellers and act as a precedent for future greenspace/structure developments.

Soft space transitions into hard space via delicately negotiated triangulated slopes, seatings pods, and circulation voids that drop into the programmed structures underneath. While the north end of the site contains the primary commercial amenities of the project, the morphing landscape grows out of the box, passes under the freeway, and rises again to form the secondary commercial zone on the southern end of the site. Compositionally the project will display a process of natural growth that will become more and more evident through construction phasing.

Design Urbanism Seminar Spring 2011

Understanding the site from a large scale is necessary in order to make crucial decisions at a small scale. Point Cadet connects the commercial fabric of Biloxi and a residential grid and is responsible for mediating the rela-tionship between the two.

Vicinity Mapping






Vicinity MappingView from North to South






Vicinity MappingVicinity MappingUnderstanding the site from a large scale is necessary in order to make crucial decisions at a small scale. PointCadet connects the commercial fabric of Biloxi and a residential grid and is responsible for mediating the relationshipbetween the two.


The scope of design intervention is compressed at a smaller scale and strategy reflects observations made at the larger scale. Circulation of program is defined and aims to address the visitors agenda. Whether it be a morn-ing run through the park, a day of shopping, or an evening on the restaurant level of the pier, the placement of structure must consider the reality of access.

Site Mapping


The site plan reveals the project by illustrating a pallatte of materiality, a layering system for program, and an overall attitude that is evoked through the architecture.

Site PlanSite MappingThe scope of design intervention is compressed at a smaller scale and strategy reflects observations made at the larger scale. Circulation of program is defined and aims to address the visitors agenda. Whether it be a morn-ing run through the park, a day of shopping, or an evening on the restaurant level of the pier, the placement of structure must consider the reality of access.


The scope of design intervention is compressed at a smaller scale and strategy reflects observations made at the larger scale. Circulation of program is defined and aims to address the visitors agenda. Whether it be a morn-ing run through the park, a day of shopping, or an evening on the restaurant level of the pier, the placement of structure must consider the reality of access.

Site Mapping


The site plan reveals the project by illustrating a pallatte of materiality, a layering system for program, and an overall attitude that is evoked through the architecture.

Site PlanSite Plan


From the skin to the bones, to the organs working within, the project realized in section helps to digest the scope of items that are addressed through architecture. Since many programmatic elements are compressed into a singular body, adjacencies are delicately considered and then tightly wound together to work as one.

Exploded Section


Aerial ViewExploded Section


Sean William McGuireFifth Year

Point Cadet: A New Cove


Recent catastrophic events have called for a revision of the relationship between the water’s edge and development within Point Cadet. Future proposals for the Gulf region must not only capture a spirit of the past, but also introduce a new means of living with the environment rather than upon or against it. While many casinos in the region are located on the water, and some commercial zoning as well, the approach is that of imposing rather than embracing. This proposal seeks to create a new system of living upon the water and creating a cove or boardwalk condition. The proposal contains both commercial and residential units located on the water, similar to early Creole settlements in Lake Pontchartrain. The creation of a U-like boardwalk seeks to promote a frontage to the water and gateway to the city, while still accommodating a serene moment of tranquility within the cove. Recognizing the historic nature of the city, small scale of development was proposed instead of large scale commercial or residential. The importance of restoring a sense of place in the site was a key tenet of this proposal.


site plan1” = 128’

primary pathways and piers

Low-rise commerical

Beach area

Greenery/ New Coastline

Lagoons

Parking

Maritime Museum/High Rise Commerical


Site Plan


View of Pier


Site Analysis

Pedestrian Past Proposal

Area of Intervention

Vehicular Noise

Nodes of Intersection


Boardwalk Rendering


Residential Unit Rendering


Ian O’CainFourth Year

A Site Divided


Looking at Biloxi, MS and its surrounding areas, it is easy for one to see how this small city can have both the small com-munity feeling while still having a bigger city draw from its resort and casino industry. This duality can most easily be seen by the juxtaposition of the large casino buildings along the coast and the small neighborhoods on the nothern side of U.S. 90.

Seeking to draw from this duality, this proposal is divided along U.S. 90 to separate it into residential and commercial halves. The northern half of the site is dedicated to the community with a community garden being planned with the already planned museum. The southern half of the site is dedicated to commercial industry. A string of buildings parallel the coast providing commercial shopping and eating opportunities on the second floor and residential floors above with parking for those resi-dents on the ground floor. Acting as a buffer for this commercial building is a large public park area on the inside of the site.

Linking both halves of the site is a long active circulation path that hugs the coast and connects to the water through a tiered sea wall. This narrower path encourages movement along the edge of the site and provides areas for running and biking along the coast.

Adjacent polulations to the site

GULFPORTPOP. 67,793

20 MIN. AWAY

14.4 MILES AWAY

BILOXIPOP. 50,644

5 MIN. AWAY

1.9 MILES AWAY

OCEAN SPRINGSPOP. 17,225

6 MIN. AWAY

3.2 MILES AWAY

Site Map


Analysis of building type surrounding the site.Surrounding Program

RESIDENTIAL

COMMERCIAL

Analysis of building type surrounding the site.Surrounding Program


Site Plan


Aerial Perspecitve


PARKING

RESIDENTIALRESIDENTIALRETAIL


Site Section

Perspective from Gulf

PARKING




PARKING




Abigail ReadingerFourth Year

Point Cadet


The site is programmed with a boardwalk and low density commercial area along the water’s edge. Bordering this is the com-munity garden, which provides a green separation between the boardwalk and a residential block across the road, which wraps around a green courtyard. In the community garden are small-scale structures for restaurants and additional small businesses.

A series of walkways provide access to the different areas of the site. On the opposite page, the three zones of the site are shown: residential, business, and the waterfront area. These three zones are kept in the final design, with the planning of a resi-dential block (residential), low density commercial (business), and boardwalk area (waterfront).


WATERFRONTRESIDENTIAL BUSINESSES

Zoning Analysis


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Site Plan

LOW DENSITY COMMERCIAL-along boardwalk

LOW DENSITY COMMERCIAL-along road

RESIDENTIAL

COMMUNITY GARDEN-and additional greenspace

INFRASTRUCTURE

MUSEUM

PATHWAYS-elevated and ground level


Boardwalk Perspective


LOW DENSITY COMMERCIAL COMMUNITY GARDEN

PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYground level

PIER/BOARDWALKRESIDENTIAL

SEATING AREA

COMMUNITY GARDENSAGRA Architects- Budapest, Hungary

KOSSUTH SQUARE

SECTION


LOW DENSITY COMMERCIAL COMMUNITY GARDEN

PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYground level

PIER/BOARDWALKRESIDENTIAL

SEATING AREA

COMMUNITY GARDEN KOSSUTH SQUARE BOARDWALKStoss LU- Green Bay, WI

CITY DECK


Alexandra SeiersonFourth Year

Communal Integration



The development is designed to grow with the budget and is intended with at first a minimal parkspace and board-walk idea in order to connect the marina space at the south end with a proposed hangar at the north end of the site. Once traffic is attracted to the space, commercial development can then be implemented with a promenade type strip, which if successful can later be expanded. The first phase is for the residents of Biloxi, and the second will also hopefully open it up to tourists as well.


By identifying severl nodes along this connecting boardwalk where the path itself fluctuates, we are able to give visitors several destinations along the way including the city’s new Seafood Industy Museum. Hopefully by leaving the rest of the space open with jogging paths and trees on the south side, and a community garden to the north, I hope to give them an oasis from city life itself.

Node Allocation

Hangar

Museum

Pier

Promenade

Marina


Here is the first phase of the proposal showing the main feature of the boardwalk as well as three other major additions to the site itself. The community garden is left open to interpretation based upon the communities needs with the hope that it will evolve organically.

Phase 1 Siteplan

Hangar

Community Garden

Jogging Paths


The boardwalk takes shape as more than just a pathway through the site with the inclusion of different overlapping bench types which allow visitors take time to stop and appreciate the great water views as well as those of the new parkspace.

Perspective and Section of Integrated Boardwalk Seating


Hangar


Phase 2 is when commercial development begins to get brought into the site. First is the addition of the two-storey mixed use development as well as an extension to the marina and addition of a pier for tourists as well as local fishermen and families. It also brings with it much needed additional parkign on the bottom level.

Phase 2 Siteplan

Pier

Commercial Promenade

Marina Expansion


-Restaurants -Stores-Office Space -Biloxi Welcome Center-Art Galleries -Bars

Programmatic Possibilities for Promenade Spaces:

Pier

Marina Expansion

PROMENADE RESTAURANT/ ART GALLERY COMBO CONDITION

PROMENADE OFFICE SINGLE SPACE CONDITION

PROMENADE RESTAURANT/ ART GALLERY COMBO CONDITION

PROMENADE OFFICE SINGLE SPACE CONDITION Promenade Office Single Space Condition

Promenade Restaurant/ Art Gallery Double Space Condition


Guan WangFourth Year

Biloxi Bend


PROJECT DESCRIPTIONBiloxi Bend focuses development on the underutilized yet a highly valuable portion of the Biloxi coastline. In order to promote outdoor activities along the coastline, a snaking pathway is designed to travel from the southern docking port to the northern casinos. This proposal provides a visually simple and economically modest development that benefits both local inhabitants and tourists alike.

WHY DOES THE PATHWAY SNAKE?The path’s bending allows for the addition of parks, a longer exercise pathway, and the introduction of splash steps along one continuous route.

BILOXI BENDA WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT

SNAKING PATHWAYPARKS

SPLASH STEPS


SNAKING PATHWAYPARKS

SPLASH STEPS


Drawing explanation or notation...Etc.Etc.

Drawing Title

INTEGRATED SEATING SPLASH STEPSBIKINGRUNNINGPARKSSNAKING PATHWAY

BEFORE

AFTER


The coastal design features grand splash steps that vary in visibility depending on water levels.

View from the Gulf

SEAMLESS SEATING POCKET PARKS


DIRECT WATER ACCESS GULF OF MEXICO


COASTAL SEA ORGANCHICAGO LAKEFRONTNIKOLA BASIC / ZADAR, CROATIA

VARIOUS ARCHITECTS / CHICAGO, UNITED STATES

JACK EVANS HARBORPRECEDENT STUDIES

ASPECT STUDIO / TWEED HEADS, AUSTRALIA

COASTAL URBAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN


PRECEDENT RESEARCHThe featured precedents are world class coastal developments that exemplify rich usage of a public space. This research is crucial to learning and understand of how a public space, especially along a waterfront, can both improve the

lifestyles and economies.


Jack WatermanThird Year

Point Cadet Recovery


Establish a wetland to recover the land along the coast. With paths and associated educational oppurtunities (Seafood Mu-seum, Shrimping Pier, Communtiy Garden), the coast would become a hub for families, as well as a beacon for joggers and naturalists. Further development would begin at the periphery (restaurants, shops, condos).

The Point is a prime location for a “gateway” because of its location near the Highway 90 bridge connection to Ocean Springs. A public square framed by high rises would provide the necessary monumentality and begin to create a sense of place in Biloxi.

#1SEAFOOD MUSEUM

#2MARINA

EXPANSION

#3SHRIMPING

PIER

#4BOARDWALK

PARK

A.ENTERTAINMENT

DISTRICT

C.APARTMENTS

COMMERCE

#5COMMUNITY

GARDEN

B.MARKET

COMMUNITY


A. Program diagrams (L to R) - Housing, Entertainment, Mixed Use (Commercial + Residential), Recreational.B. User Gradient - Darker areas indicate more adult use, while lighter areas indicate family or recreational use. C. Sight Lines to the proposed Public Square - dotted line indicate pedestrain and vehicular circulation.

Diagrams


Section Perspective

TODOWNTOWN

TOOCEAN SPRINGS

HOK

Precedents


Perspectives

Tulane Regional Urban Design Center - Student work, Fall 2011

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