Membership & Program Coordinator :: The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education :: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: 2007 to 2009
Transitional Landscapes: Food Urbanism in Philadelphia :: Advisors: Craig Verzone and Kristina Hill:: Fall 2011
Food Urbanism Initiative :: researcher :: Verzone Woods Architectes :: Summer 2011
Terragrams :: researcher :: Craig Verzone :: Summer 2011
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paradoxcity :: new orleans // 4
sinking city :: venice // 6
mapping the tourist flows :: venice // 10
the slow digital library :: barcelona // 12
subterranean to celestial :: observatory hill // 21
community works :: charlottesville // 16
la praille station :: geneva // 23
biodiversity on a biscuit :: biscuit run state park // 24
urban acupuncture :: philadelphia // 26W. P e t e r M a l a n d r aw p m 2 k j @ v i r g i n i a . e d u
curriculum vitae // 29
p a r a d o x c i t y : : n e w o r l e a n s2 0 1 0 f a l l s t u d i o | c r i t i c : J o r g S i e w e k e
Working in collaboration with Leah Wener (MLA 2012), we identify a corridor of monofunctional infrastructure crossed only three times in the 2-mile stretch from City Park to the London Avenue canal, isolating neighborhoods and severely disrupting the urban fabric along the way. Complicating matters is the spot flooding of low-lying neighborhoods, experienced during moderate to heavy rainfall when the pumps which drain the city are overwhelmed.
wiltshire avenue
paris ave recreation center
gentilly avenue and paris avenue
Using the urban drosscape created by the CSX railway and Interstate 610, this space becomes a fatten portion of the drainage system where stormwater is detained while waiting to be pumped out to Lake Ponchartrain. At the same time, this area is transformed into a vital public space braided through the existing infrastructure, connecting people to water and the surrounding neighborhoods to each other and to City Park.
As the most visited place on earth, Venice today stands as an “inert living museum”, a Disneyland-like fossil floating in a lagoon bustling with cruise liners, vaporettos, and tourists on over-priced gondellas rides. The lack of economic opportunity beyond menial service jobs met with a rising housing market driven by tourists’ demands forced most residents off the island. At the same time, worsening acqua alta, or high tides, threatens its physical existence.
Instead of costly and misguided MOSE lagoon gate closure system, the design proposes a rule-based system to use acqua alta as a mechanism to alter the city’s hard edge and habitation patterns, drawing together permanent residents and a variety of economies which breathe new life and dynamism into Venice. By giving up the edges of the city to the sea that are now subjected to acqua alta, new marshy spaces are able to exist in the city itself. These spaces act as nodes within the city where new businesses, parks, residents, and tourists could reside. Dynamism and resilience are the qualities most lacking in Venice, and by mimicking the nature of the lagoon (as a landscape in flux), these areas would be places for experimentation in a frozen city where preservation -- not adaptation -- has been the regime for the past century.
2 0 1 0 s p r i n g s t u d i o | c r i t i c : J o r g S i e w e k e
s i n k i n g c i t y : : v e n i c e
All buildings within 120cm tidal range must abandon the first floor to the city.
The owner may choose to demolish the building completely or allow the load-bearing walls, foundations, and friction mats to remain
Owners may opt to sell their property to the city.
Owners may build new structures (residential, commercial) between load bearing walls at the level of second floor and above.
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demolished to
foundation
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foundation
maintain
loadbearing
habitable bracing
structures
habitable bracing
structures
restore wetland
habitat
utility conduit
prevent
erosion
elevated
walkways
marine life
habitat
bird habitat
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accommodations
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new souvenir
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within 120cm
tidal range
outside of 120cm
tidal range
city-owned
privately
owned
maintain
loadbearing
demolished to
foundation
demolished to
foundation
maintain
loadbearing
habitable bracing
structures
habitable bracing
structures
restore wetland
habitat
utility conduit
prevent
erosion
elevated
walkways
marine life
habitat
bird habitat
tourist
accommodations
affordable
housing
new souvenir
photo op
ruin as
artifact
alternative
accommodations
infrastructure
park
€
support channel
embankment
€
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within 120cm
tidal range
outside of 120cm
tidal range
city-owned
privately
owned
maintain
loadbearing
demolished to
foundation
demolished to
foundation
maintain
loadbearing
habitable bracing
structures
habitable bracing
structures
restore wetland
habitat
utility conduit
prevent
erosion
elevated
walkways
marine life
habitat
bird habitat
tourist
accommodations
affordable
housing
new souvenir
photo op
ruin as
artifact
alternative
accommodations
infrastructure
park
€
support channel
embankment
€
traveler
The Istrian stone foundations and walls which remain are used to create new dwellings, public spaces, and programmatic opportunities.
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t h e s l o w d i g i t a l l i b r a r y : : b a r c e l o n a
Working in a soon-to-be abandoned industrial rail corridor through the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona, the design draws from the burgeoning media, design and publishing economies of its immediate surroundings to create a digital library distributed along a new pedestrian and bicycle corridor. A work in progress, this proposal seeks to understand the site as an industrial heritage landscape which continues to link Barcelona to the world, and as a specific type of public space, the institution of the library, which functions at the intersection of the digital, civic, and urban realms where we project our public identity.
2 0 1 2 s p r i n g s t u d i o | c r i t i c : M a r g a r i t a J o v e r , a l d a y j o v e r a r q u i t e c t u r a y p a i s a j e s
Membership & Program Coordinator :: The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education :: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: 2007 to 2009
Transitional Landscapes: Food Urbanism in Philadelphia :: Advisors: Craig Verzone and Kristina Hill:: Fall 2011
Food Urbanism Initiative :: researcher :: Verzone Woods Architectes :: Summer 2011
Terragrams :: researcher :: Craig Verzone :: Summer 2011
Membership & Program Coordinator :: The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education :: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: 2007 to 2009
Transitional Landscapes: Food Urbanism in Philadelphia :: Advisors: Craig Verzone and Kristina Hill:: Fall 2011
Food Urbanism Initiative :: researcher :: Verzone Woods Architectes :: Summer 2011
Terragrams :: researcher :: Craig Verzone :: Summer 2011
Membership & Program Coordinator :: The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education :: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: 2007 to 2009
Transitional Landscapes: Food Urbanism in Philadelphia :: Advisors: Craig Verzone and Kristina Hill:: Fall 2011
Food Urbanism Initiative :: researcher :: Verzone Woods Architectes :: Summer 2011
Terragrams :: researcher :: Craig Verzone :: Summer 2011
s u b t e r r a n e a n t o c e l e s t i a l : :o b s e r v a t o r y h i l l
Focusing on the sensory conditions of the existing forest and the relationship between a headspring in the valley and an observatory center on top of the hill, this design incorporates conceptual models and hand drawings to explore topography, vegetation density, and circulation through a passage from subterranean to celestial.
2 0 0 9 f a l l s t u d i o | c r i t i c : N a n c y T a k a h a s h i
Membership & Program Coordinator :: The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education :: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: 2007 to 2009
Transitional Landscapes: Food Urbanism in Philadelphia :: Advisors: Craig Verzone and Kristina Hill:: Fall 2011
Food Urbanism Initiative :: researcher :: Verzone Woods Architectes :: Summer 2011
Terragrams :: researcher :: Craig Verzone :: Summer 2011
b i o d i v e r s i t y o n a b i s c u i t : : b i s c u i t r u n s t a t e p a r k
Tasked with increasing biodiversity in a rapidly developing area south of Charlottesville,VA, this 1200-acre parcel acts “rung on ladder”; that is, a relatively small piece of land running east-to-west which connects two larger pieces of land running north-to-south which also possess quality habitat for a variety of threatened wildlife.
By making Biscuit Run a connector to these larger patches, visitors are able to begin to share a space with other non-human species native to the region which pass through this area. As a studio, we focused on the designing the perch from which people would begin their visit, the parking lot.
2 0 1 0 s p r i n g s t u d i o | c r i t i c : K r i s t i n a H i l l
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Membership & Program Coordinator :: The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education :: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: 2007 to 2009
Transitional Landscapes: Food Urbanism in Philadelphia :: Advisors: Craig Verzone and Kristina Hill:: Fall 2011
Food Urbanism Initiative :: researcher :: Verzone Woods Architectes :: Summer 2011
Terragrams :: researcher :: Craig Verzone :: Summer 2011
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