MDM2011-2012 design portfolio

“diversity is crowded out by the duplication of success”y

Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities 1961

+ competitions

matthew david moffitt contact

120 E. Fairmount AveState College, PA 16801

(e) mdm5290@psu.edu

(t) 302.437.5235

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01-02st. louis, mo

17-24toledo, oh

09-12rome, italy

13-16philadelphia, pa

25-26sonoma, ca

03-06nashville, tn

27-28philadelphia, pa

07-08detroit, mi

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The Pruitt Igoe Now Design Competition was created as a hypothetical challenge for architects, writers, and artists to re-imagine the 57 acres on which the Pruitt Igoe housing complex was formally located. The Wildwood Park project is governed by three observations and hopes for the future of the Pruitt Igoe site.[Pruitt Igoe as Luxury] The existing social perception of the site is poor. Fenced off from public access, the site has been demoted to spectacle wasteland. Within St. Louis, a city know for its phenomenal parks and public spaces, Pruitt Igoe should be seen as a ‘luxury,’ rather than a ‘liability.’ This idea is implemented through the establishment of areas for urban education and recreation.[Pruitt Igoe as Collector] The site has always functioned as a collector. First, of densely accumulated humans; then, it served as a waste dump for St. Louis’ scraps, and now it is home to a plethora of urban biodiversity. Our goal was to harness the site as ‘collector’ through the establishment of community-engaging program enclosed by mediating landforms.[Pruitt Igoe as Nature] What is nature to the residents of St. Louis? To many, it is a short list of marginal green spaces. Wildwood Park establishes educational programs that utilize emergent vegetation and enhance the public understanding of ecological succession in urban areas.

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Wildwood ParkPruitt Igoe Design Competition_St Louis, MO

Sean Burkholder, Kevin Mokos

WILDWOODS: fostering community success through succession The Wildwood Park project is governed by three observations and subsequent desires:

Pruitt Igoe as LuxuryFenced off, the former Pruitt Igoe site has been demoted to spectacle wasteland and seen as a liability to St Louis. Situated in a city known for great parks and free public experiences, the former Pruitt Igoe site should be re-considered as an urban luxury as opposed to a liability by providing a new range of urban educational experiences, closely tied to novel and well-managed recreations spaces.

Pruitt Igoe as CollectorThe former Pruitt Igoe site has always been a collector. First, the site densely accommodated humans, then served as a location for material storage and dumping, and now is home to a large collection of vegetation and natural biodiversity. In many ways it has evolved as the dustbin of the great city of St. Louis. This role of collector is harnessed by incorporating community-engaging programs with urban system functions through the use of a series of mediating landforms.

Pruitt Igoe as Nature Exposure to nature for many urban residents comes by way of marginal greenspaces. The former Pruitt Igoe site has become home to a wide range of plant and animal species. Leveraging this, Wildwoods Park park establishes educational programs that utilize the emergent vegetation and enhance understanding of ecological succession and urban biodiversity.

The idea is simple. Embrace the processes currently taking place on the site by re-parameterizing them in ways that become legible and useful to both visitors and the surrounding community. A new Urban Woodland Research Center provides education and outreach opportunities in addition to landscape management regimes that take advantage of newly identified urban woodlots. These woodlots would contain no newly planted trees, but instead will utilize the trees that adapt there naturally.

Existing Urban Forest Collect: snow, wood and parked vehicles. Use landforms to mediate relationship between collection and visitor use.

Divide: site into woodlots with pedestrian access and recreation spaces.

The Woodpile:This area collects untreated wood products from both tree clean-up and untreated building demolition for use in the WRC

Parking:This area provides hidden parking for visitors to the site with access to adjacent recreation lawn

PicnicGallery Hills:Spread throughout the park along circulation routes, these landforms provide picnic areas and outdoor gallery space.

The Snowdump:Salt polluted snow removed from city streets is placed here to melt. This water then runs into the adjacent saline wetland, home to salt-adapted plants an animals.

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The focus of Wildwood Park is the Urban Wood Research Center. It is here that local residents and visitors can take courses in woodworking and learn about ecological succession within urban environments. The WRC also serves as a research hub for the understanding of urban vegetation and its possible uses. This research provides a landscape management regime that culls the various linear woodlots of the site, providing a continually adapting landscape. It is this continual landscape revision that illuminates the dynamic ecological processes to the parks visitors.

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In order to become a progressive city, Nashville must capitalize on their numerous opportunities as a crossroads town. The Nashville waterfront is a template for a new kind of crossroads: the interface of ecology and built environment. The intersection of this thriving metropolitan landscape and a decaying brownfield riverfront space has yielded a ‘tabula rasa’ for urban design. The joining of these systems provides a base form upon which to distribute program and phasing intervention. An ‘ecological corridor’ runs through the heart of the competition site. A series of micro-ecologies accept flood and storm water at modulated entry points through anthropogenic control. Each micro-corridor receives modular fluvial release from one of three aquatic control points in order to perform a specific utilitarian function to renew the health of the site as well as establish the succession of its ecological life cycle. Each micro-ecology varies in elevation from the average level of the Cumberland River meniscus, to allow for a dynamic array of modular floodplains throughout the ecological corridor. Visitors are encouraged to explore alongside, through, and around each of these micro-ecologies via a series of path systems and recreational fields. A dialectic and exploratory park compresses into a place for urbanites to learn of the process of fluvial modulation as nourishment for ecological succession and natural site remediation.

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Designed to FloodDesigning Action Riverfront Competition_Nashville, TN

James Sink, Kevin Mokos

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The process of re-imagination is the emblem of progressive urban change and growth in America. Jetteé introduces a contemporary aesthetic to Detroit. By fracturing the edge between the city framework and the Detroit River, our proposal imagines the competition site as a target for the implementation of this new aesthetic as a conduit, linking downtown Detroit to its disengaged river. Existing programmatic spaces within Noguchi’s Hart Plaza are shifted, extruded and vertically layered into the Detroit River. Woodward Avenue is extended onto the site and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is exposed as a template for programmatic activity. Jeteé, French for ‘pier,’ illustrates the result of an imaginative design process yielding five variations of programmatic space. Program types blend from landform to architecture: exhibition spaces, aquarium spaces, theatres, green roof/event spaces, and a hockey rink. Progressive urban change must pay homage to existing city infrastructure while introducing contemporary dynamic pedestrian-oriented spaces. Jetée proposes the fracturing of the edge between city and river, providing Detroit with connective channels for individuals, families, businesses, visitors, and tourists.

RECREATION PEDESTRIAN IMMERSION EXHIBITION LINEAR AQUARIUM INFRASTRUCTURE

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JeteéDetroit by Design Riverfront Competition_Detroit, MI

Sean Burkholder, Brian Mcloughlin, Dainel Sepsy, Alexander Bruce

THEATRE THE RIVER AS BACKDROP ENERGY GENERATION RIVER FLUX EXTRACTION ECOLOGY STREAMBANK REMEDIATION

In early Roman times, the Via dei Coronari held the crucial function as a threshold for peasants entering from the north at Piazza del Popolo and traveling to the Vatican via the Ponte Sant’Angelo. The following proposal for the Via dei Coronari and the Piazza di Ponte aims to restore the historical geometry of the site. It highlights past circulation patterns through the implementation of contemporary landscape infrastructure. A sub-terrenean vehicular thoroughfare allowed for the introduction of a light rail tram line and a cantilevered piazza extension (matching the site’s historical geometry). A proposed sculptural lighting element induces the organic flow of pedestrians through the renewed space. This design move directs visitors to cultural adjacencies: the Via dei Coronari, the Tiber riverfront, and the Castel Sant’Angelo. Throughout the historical center of Rome, there is little handicap access to the Tiber riverfront. This design includes a switchback ramp to ease access to the river, just below the historic Ponte Sant’Angelo.

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Via dei CoronariPiaza + Waterfront Renovation_Rome, Italy

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A stormwater management system is implemented to physically link the Piazza di Ponte to the city’s forgotten riverfront.Currently, there is little use of the Tiber riverfront walk. An introduced hike/bike trail system aims to return visitors and residents to the river.

Photocatalytic cement is introduced in various compartments of the proposed riverfront walk. This absorbent material is projected to reduce pollutants in its area of implementation by 20-70%.

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Material: photocatalytic cement Lighting: LED fixtures Commercial Introduction Stormwater ManagementUrban Tree Infrastructure

Above: Renewal strategies for the Via dei Coronari are illustrated. Priority is given to the use of photocatalytic cement, planting of urban street trees, and incorporating lighting fixtures.Right: The cantilevered piazza and proposed light rail infrastructure are shown. The guiding lighting element hugs the existing piazza space and stretches to the Tiber riverfront.

above: corridor renewal phasing (in years) - Via dei Coronari

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Philadelphia’s recreation centers have the responsibility of catering to local neighborhood residents as well as the city as a whole. As seen in the master plan, this proposal for the Jardel Recreation Center re-purposes the site for multi-functional use by incoming residents of all ages. The proposed landform sinuously meanders through the site, resulting in outdoor seating ‘theatres’ for viewing of active recreation, as well as an elevated walking and jogging trail. The landform will be built using recycled aggregate materials from adjacent demolition sites in Philadelphia. The creation of gentle sloping lawn areas encourages residents’ use of the site for watching baseball and basketball games. It also becomes a place for parents to safely keep an eye on their children while they enjoy any of the several open natural play opportunities. The proposed parking lot intends to relieve some of the stress from park entries during large baseball events or tournaments. All on-site stormwater run-off will be captured in one of two bioretention facilities along the southern corner of the site. These facilities were designed geometrically to maximize surface area for the proposed landform shape. Other site amenities include a skate ramp, sledding hills, zip lines and slides, a climbing tree orchard, and an outdoor amphitheater. A large open recreation lawn provides un-programmed space for various activities or private events.

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Jardel Recreation CenterUrban Park Remediation_Philadelphia, PA

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At the south west corner of the park, the proposed landform sinuously transitions from a soft seating hill to a wall. Grass seating areas serve as an ideal spot to watch youth baseball games during summer and fall months. During the winter, the hill might be used for sledding and cross-country skiing.

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Catalysis, a process of accelerating a chemical change, may be applied to a regional scale as a design interventionstrategy. Lake Erie’s health has significantly decreased over the past century; it has lost 50% of its coastal wetlands.Sediment dredged from shipping channels has unlimited potential as a catalyst for the revitalization of the health ofLake Erie. Dredge Catalysis introduces a system that re-structures the extraction of dredge material as a machine inconstant flux. Dredge is removed from the shipping channel and brought to the Edison Park site where it is de-wateredand remediated. Dredge is then extracted from Edison Park, in various pulses throughout the year, and used for theconstruction of wetlands at the Harborlands site, adjacent to the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse. At both sites, a dialectic socialagenda is apparent. The ephemeral form and malleability of dredge become a theatre for the site user.

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The Bai-Yun garden was the first of two installations completed by our design team at Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma, CA. The team was lead by Andy Cao and Xavier Perrot of Cao-Perrot Studio, based in Los Angeles. The two installations were finished over a seven week period and have been featured in various design publications. [Bai Yun] A collaboration of common construction materials and simple vegetation to emulate a cloud, visually extending into the adjacent vineyard. [Materials] Chicken wire was meticulously warped into cloud-like shapes. These shape were folded and massaged until they replicated gaseous forms. 5,000 glass crystals were hung from the clouds, using wire ties. Stainless steel piping was used to construct the cloud canopy over the undulating garden base. Prickly Pear Cactus and decomposed granite were used to finalize the ground plane. [Challenges] The weight distribution of chicken wire versus the load bearing capacity of the stainless steel tubes. The removal of existing hedgerows was necessary to sustain introduced landform molding.

Bai-Yun Installation, Cornerstone Gardens_Sonoma, CA

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The Red Lantern garden was the second installation conducted by our team at Cornerstone. The Red Lantern posed a fresh use of the space, replacing Martha Schwartz’ “The Usual Suspects” garden installation. [Designer’s Intent] Andy Cao intended to make a strong cultural statement with this composition. The Red Lantern garden was built as a tribute to Chinese immigrants who came to the United States to work on the construction of the trans-continental railroad. The piece was built with a man-made pond, that was created during initial construction process. The pond induces a reflective sensation within the site visitor. [Materials] The lantern itself was carved out of wood and a refined egg-shell laquer was applied to it. Reclaimed railroad tracks and ties from the Sonoma Valley were used to create a path to the lantern. Other materials include enlarged wooden chopsticks with abalone oyster shells, crushed granite stone, native tall grasses and other rustic vegetation found on-site, water lilies, stainless steel wire, and 2,000 red class crystals.

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The increasing urban development in Philadelphia poses the opportunity for a creative and decentralized approach to green infrastructure planning. Interning at the Philadelphia Water Department, I helped design stormwater infrastructure systems to reduce localized flooding, minimize CSO outfall, improve overall water quality, and enhance the overall urban aesthetic of Philadelphia. Shown are two of the many projects that I worked on with the green infrastructure team. Shown below is an adaptive stormwater infiltration strip along 49th street in west Philadelphia. On page 28 is a conceptual design scheme for Cianfrani Park in Philadelphia.

Green Stormwater Infrastructure ProjectsPhiladelphia Water Department_Philadelphia, PA

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