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STEPHEN KLIMEKDESIGN PORTFOLIO
Community DevelopmentUrban RevitalizationPublic Interest DesignArchitecture
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STEPHEN KLIMEKDESIGN PORTFOLIO
01 Near Westside Neighborhood Plan....402 Otisco Street Green Infrastructure .....803 West Street Corridor .....................10
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
04 Connective Corridor .....................1205 Syracuse Rail Trail ........................1406 Syracuse Masterplans ..................16
URBAN REVITALIZATION
07 Storefront:Syracuse ....................1608 Near Westside Flash Park ..............2409 Freedom by Design ......................26
PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN
10 Urban Arts Center ........................2811 House as Site .............................3212 Music Center ..............................3413 White House Redux .....................3614 County Legal Services ..................4015 Sustainability Superstore ...............44
ARCHITECTURE
Land Use apartment
cemetery
commercial
community service
industrial
multiple residence
parking
religious
school
single family
three family
two family
utilities
vacant land
Rail Trail Path
Rail Trail Entrance
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Fox News
CNN
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Communications
Transportation
Transportation
Department of JusticeDepartment of Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Department of HUD
Legislative Aairs
Department of State
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
Recreation
Vice President
Associated Press
Reuters
Agence France Presse
ABC News
The New York Times
Washington Post
Department of the Treasury
Entertainment
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Conceived as an alternative to theconventional master plan, The NearWestside Neighborhood Plan proposes contemporary solutions grounded in the local assets of the community. It recognizes that the possibility of active urban life requires developing new design strategies that foreground the cultural, human, and infrastructural assets of a place making the diversity and variety of the Near Westside the perfect site to implement these ideas. The plans primary objective is to create a new approach to neighborhood planning thatis accomplished through a framework of
NEAR WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD PLANURBAN DESIGN STRATEGIES . UPSTATE: CENTER FOR DESIGN, RESEARCH & REAL ESTATE
big and small projects organized within five categories: green infrastructure, circulation networks, lighting and security, land use and wayfinding. Through a series of proposals that combine design and planning moves at different physical and economic scales, the Neighborhood Plan can be implemented in succession, as resources and political initiative allow.
Design Team:Julia CzerniakJoe SiskoTrevor Lee
4 Neighborhood Study & Model
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5Master Plan Strategies
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6 Green Infrastructure Strategies - Curb Extensions
NEAR WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN
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7Marcellus Street Infill Strategies
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The Otisco Street Green Corridor is the first residential green project to be constructed as part of Onondaga Countys Save The Rain program, an initiative to reduce the affects of storm water run-off pollution to local water ways and improve water quality in Onondaga Lake.
The existing curb lines along Otisco Street at the intersections of South Geddes, Ontario, and Seneca Streets were extended approximately 6 feet into the road. The new
OTISCO STREET GREEN INFRASTRUCTURESUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE . NEAR WESTSIDE INITIATIVE
curb stormwater inlets allow stormwater to drain into new bioretention areas between the new curb and existing curb, reducing runoff while creating a new area for plants.
As part of the construction work new sidewalks will be installed on both sides of Otisco Street. The sidewalks will become a great neighborhood asset and increase the value of homes. The curb extensions will not only provide substantial stormwater capture, but they also act
8 Otisco Street Green Infrastructure Section
as traffic calming devices by slowing traffic at intersections, making it safer for pedestrians and children in the community.
The curb extensions bioretention area will be planted with rain garden plants, beautifying the neighborhood while reducing water run off.
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The Near Westside Initiative Business Association invited dozens of businesses and residents located along West Street to a presentation of proposed changes along the West Street arterial and gathered their input.
West Street is a high-volume North-South corridor for West Side and South Side residents and commerce; it must function safely for all motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians. Proposed changes include reducing the number of car lanes on West Street and creating a 2-way cycle track with area businesses and residents. The benefits of which include increased green space and porous surfaces, more trees and shade, improved access into the neighborhoods for pedestrians and bicyclists, and a traffic-calming effect that will slow traffic and make it easier to cross West Street.
The NWSI Business Association members and guests were able to provide feedback to the City on the details of the lane reduction, Otisco Street crosswalk and other infrastructural elements of the design. Suggested additions to the streetscape included more trees, a plaza, more on-street or off-street parking and wider sidewalks.
WEST STREET CORRIDORURBAN INFRASTRUCTURE . NEAR WESTSIDE INITIATIVE
10 Proposal for Public Presentation
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The Connective Corridor is a multidisciplinary project reshaping the face of the City of Syracuse through new urban spaces and streetscapes, bike and pedestrian paths, public art, parks, green infrastructure, faade improvements, historic preservation,
CONNECTIVE CORRIDOR URBAN LANDSCAPE KIT OF PARTS
neighborhood revitalization, signage and branding, and events programming. In this urban landscape transformation there are two essential strategies - a facade improvement program and a new urban and public transit wayfinding system.
12 Civic Infrastructure - Facade Improvement Program
A basic kit of parts which identify this corridor as is traverses five neighborhoods is applied to the specific requirements and constraints of key buildings along the route. Wayfinding maps, markers and symbols are used to identify the Corridor not only as a piece of
urban infrastructure but as a network of dynamic civic and cultural institutions which encourage residents and visitors to use the city.
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13Civic Infrastructure - Urban & Transit Wayfinding
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The Syracuse Rail Trail will bring new economic vitality to Syracuse. It will attract tourists, encourage new trail-related business development, and help revitalize neighborhood business districts. It will enhance the quality of life, helping to attract and retain business. The Rail Trail will also inspire renewed civic pride and provide a fresh focus for community activities
The Syracuse Rail Trail project proposal is a 2.75 mile elevated park and trail which will exist alongside the NYS&W
SYRACUSE RAIL TRAILRECREATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE . NEAR WESTSIDE INITIATIVE & CONNECTIVE CORRIDOR
Land Use apartmentcemetery
commercialcommunity serviceindustrial
multiple residenceparkingreligiousschool
single familythree familytwo family
utilitiesvacant landRail Trail PathRail Trail Entrance
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rail line. The project will spur economic development, encourage and enable healthy lifestyles, provide a means for alternative transportation, help protect the environment, and provide much needed quality of life improvements. By coupling this soft infrastructure with the New York Susquehanna & Western Railway tracks, the Rail Trail proposal connects five divided neighborhoods in the City of Syracuse.
The Syracuse Rail Trail is the last link of the Connective Corridor and is a critical next step
Neighborhood Transportation Infrastructure
in the economic revitalization efforts for the City of Syracuse and the Central New York region as a whole. Much like the railway, the Rail Trail will connect to a statewide network of trails which are already creating a positive economic impact and encouraging private investment. The projects planning and development will be grounded in strong community leadership and public-private partnerships. It will be completed in three phases, stretching from Syracuse University through the Downtown to Tipp Hill.
PHASE 3
Access PointCanal Way Trail IntersectionTipperary Hill
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Land Use apartmentcemetery
commercialcommunity serviceindustrial
multiple residenceparkingreligiousschool
single familythree familytwo family
utilitiesvacant landRail Trail PathRail Trail Entrance
Land Use apartmentcemetery
commercialcommunity serviceindustrial
multiple residenceparkingreligiousschool
single familythree familytwo family
utilitiesvacant landRail Trail PathRail Trail Entrance
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PHASE 1PHASE 2
Phase 1Existing Train StationSyracuse University &South Side
Access pointSouth Side & Downtown
Phase 2Connective Corridor & Creekwalk IntersectionDowntown
Access PointNear Westside
Phase 3 Tipperary Hill & Near Westside
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How will we make our city? This question, while seemingly simple, has had profound and complicated effects on the shape and nature of our city. This unprecedented research and exhibition explores the history of masterplanning in the City of Syracuse from its founding to today through five main projects for the city and their political, social, and economic consequences.
Collaboration with Nilus Klingel
SYRACUSE MASTERPLANSARCHIVAL RESEARCH
CATALYZING FACTORS
A Set Of Cultural Networks
AGENTS
REALIZATION
KEY
Sprawl Inflexibility
HubCentralized
Road Redevelopment Assets Production
Partially Built
Masterplan Existing Fabric New
Development
Water Green Space Institutions Highway Rail Line
Public Transit Education
Statistics
Economy
Issues
Total Population 1970 - 197,208 persons
Total Population 1980 - 170,208 persons -14%
Total Population 1990 - 163,860 persons -4%
Total Population 2000 - 147,306 persons -10%
Total Population 2010 - 145,170 persons -1.5%
Services
................Banking
................Health care
................Retail
................ Insurance
Manufacturing
................Anheuser Busch Companies
................Raymour & Flannigan
................Magna Drivetrain
................ Lockheed Martin
Education
................Upstate Medical - 1834
................Syracuse University - 1870
................SUNY ESF - 1911
................ Le Moyne - 1946
................Onondaga Community College - 1962
................Syracuse Research Corp - 1957
Connective Corridor
................Reconnecting the Urban Core
................Asset Based Development with Existing Networks
................Partnerships & Localized Reinvestment
Destiny USA
................Centralized Suburban Retail
................Experience Economy
Marginalized Communities
Suburban v Urban Focus
Population Resource Conservation
Partnerships
Residential
Commercial
Industrial
Civic/Institutional
Historical Urban Mapping16
The masterplan is a particularly apt tool to track the shifts in the architectural discourse from top-down to bottom-up, and in the process gain a perspective of where the discourse lies now. The masterplan, in its various historical manifestations, provides nearly perfect encapsulations of ideology in a period of time by definition, the masterplan explains a singular vision of how the city should look, feel, and perform, and thus is the clearest articulation of a project for the city.
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1800sA Landscape for Exploiting Resources
1920sA Machine for Manufacturing Goods
1940sA Center for Services
1960sA Decentralized Set of Communities
2000sA Set of Cultural Networks v.Corporate Mega Development
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Storefront:Syracuse is a center fordesign, a forum for public engagement,and a space to imagine and realize thecitys latent potentials. It is a third spacein the city of Syracuse created in the voidof vacant storefront real-estate becomingan uncommissioned interventionconnecting designers and thepopulations they serve. Transforming asource of blight into a publicly accessiblehub for creative reengagement isnot only important for improving thebeauty, marketability, and pride of theneighborhood but it also increasesresidents capacity and inspiration toengage in comparable grassrootsrevitalization projects.Defined by a series of projects thataddress architectural agency TheStorefronts programming includes aseries of exhibitions, lectures, forumsfor outreach, roundtable workshops,design-build projects, a design libraryand social events. Our work has movedbeyond the boundary of the storefrontand has materialized itself throughsmaller collaborative urban interventions
STOREFRONT:SYRACUSESPONTANEOUS INTERVENTION . THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS
including public art and temporaryparks. By engaging new populationsin the processes which make the cityStorefront:Syracuse serves as a catalystfor democracy giving form to the publicwhich is invoked when new developmentprograms, economic schemes, orlegislation related to the growth andfuture of the city. The Storefront is anurban laboratory for the City of Syracuseto engage in conversation and debatewith one another and with those in aposition to make meaningful changeregarding the issues that construct thephysical and social spaces of the city. Itis intended to and has already begun toserve as a model for other cities.
Storefront:Syracuse was recently featured as one of 124 projects along with the other engagement and urban revitalization initiatives of the School of Architecture in the 2012 Venice Biennale US Pavilion - Spontaneous Interventions.
Collaboration with Nilus Klingel &AIAS Syracuse
SCHOOL OFARCHITECTURE
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
NATIONAL AIASAIAS
STUDENTSANDBOX
JF REALTYSTATE TOWER CORP.
GIFFORDFOUNDATION
RvDFOUNDATION
THE FRONT
STOREFRONT:SYRACUSE
THE PUBLIC OF SYRACUSE
GRANT
INSURANC
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(3)GRANT
PHYSICA
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Existing Conditions
Syracuse Works Exhibition
Syracuse Masterplans Exhibition
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Statistics Fiscal Capital
Workplan
Agents Issues
Deliverable
Digital Archive
Site: 217 E Genesee Street Syracuse, NY 1320219 Months Leased9 Major Events400 Visitors 53 Major Stakeholders
Syracuse
Works
9.11
Lease
Signed
10.10
Connected
Urbanism
s
5.12
Amenities $1450
Furnishings $500
Vacant StorefrontStudent Volunteer ForceStudent Startup FundingCommunity Foundation Funding
DIY RenovationPop-Up Infrastructures
Proof-Of-Concept PrototypeServed As Precedent Model For One Actualized StorefrontDiverse Community Of Stakeholders
www.storefront-syracuse.org
ImportanceThrough our work we transformed a 33 years vacant storefront into a hub of regular programming for architecture and urban design.
Advertising $200
Reserved $1500
Renovations $3100
Exhibitions $1250
VPA IID Show
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Masterplans
12.11 M
ixers
3.12
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MArch IIThe Project
CURATION
OBSERVATION
WHO
WHAT
WHEN WHERE
HOW
WHY
Project Overview
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Art Happening Pop-Up
Connected Urbanisms: Projecting Syracuse Futures
Public Interest Design mixer & Freedom by Design Exhibition
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Graduate Students Pecha Kucha
Community Plaza & 15th Ward Mixer
Industrial & Interaction Design Thesis Exhibition
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One of the most important forms of public space in a city is the park. Working in collaboration with the Near Westside Initiative and students from architecture schools across the northeastern United States, The Front transformed an empty parking lot into a temporary Flash Park on Wyoming Street. Located across from PEACE Inc. Family Resource Center the Flash Park became a place of play and relaxation in a neighborhood in flux.
The design was intended to create an asset for the neighborhood and become a symbol for a future park planned for the site. The Flash Park took two days to build, had an eight month lifespan and cost less than $500. In the spring of 2011 the park was dismantled and redistributed throughout the neighborhood, resodding vacant lots and create an art park on Tully Street.
The Flash Park quickly became part of the neighborhood. After it was dismantled several community stakeholders have proposed a collaboration to install another temporary park on the site.
NEAR WESTSIDE FLASH PARKPOP-UP PARK . THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS
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In designing safety, dignity, and comfort for the client, the ramp not only provides access to her home but also engages the client by creating two distinct spaces. First is a covered area outside the entrance of the home for receiving visitors and waiting under a light covering. The second is a more spacious outdoor space where the client can garden in the flower box or green wall or simply relax and socialize.
These two areas expand the role of the ramp from simply circulation to include occupation and space making. The entire ramp is wrapped in cnc milled plywood panels. The apertures in the wrapper create lighting effects from both natal and artificial light; it also serves as a visual screen and secondary rail system.
Design collaboration with Christopher DePalma
FREEDOM BY DESIGNACCESSIBILITY DESIGN BUILD PROGRAM
Overhead Lighting
Floor Lighting
Rail Lighting
New Covering
Wood Rail System
Wood Deck
Drainage System
Gutter Drain
Planting Bed
Footings
Superstructure
26 L: Exploded Systems R: Before & After
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Situated in downtown Syracuse the Washington street and Franklin street intersection is and has historically been a unique palimpsest in Syracuses urban landscape. The structural and programmatic history has directly produced the topographic conditions of the site today.
URBAN ART CENTERSPECULATIVE DESIGN PROJECT
This design intervention was development by exploring mapping and the landscape as the site and situation for form. By mapping the existing static and temporal conditions of the site a historical investigation began and became the foundation of a future projection of the sites geographic and architectural form.
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29Landscape Studies
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1834
1898
1924
1938
1953
2007
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URBAN ART CENTER
Landscape Studies
SPECULATIVE DESIGN PROJECT
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Gallery Store
Studio Entry
Exhibition | Labs
Internet Cafe
31Formal Projection
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House as Site - Site as House is an exploration of form in dwelling and landscaping. The parti and organizational hierarchy were informed by a spatial analysis of Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez.
HOUSE AS SITESPECULATIVE DESIGN PROJECT
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33Site Plan - Manual
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An introductory design project exploring urban relationships and architecture as object. Major program elements including reception, exhibition, performance, and studio space are raised off the ground plane and opened visually through the slot site. A new public space is created and cultivated between the street and program, opening,the site to a new understanding of public space and the publics role in the urban environment.
URBAN MUSIC CENTERSPECULATIVE DESIGN PROJECT
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35Section - Digital & Manual
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What if the White House, the ultimate architectural symbol of political power, were to be designed today?
The White House exists as an organism. Living and breathing in time and space; it only exists in the District of Columbia because of the political environment established in the Capitol. The White House is a function of the president in todays world of instant communication and real time information. Within such an environment
WHITE HOUSE REDUXSTOREFRONT FOR ART & ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION FINALIST
the contemporary White House as an institutional system would not need a grounded location; however as a nervous system for executive action it is essential for existence. The Communication Network System (CNS) is conceived of through a non hierarchical rhizometric organization of circulation, communication, information, and therefore collaboration.
Collaboration with Gabriella Morrone
Fox News
CNN
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Communications
Transportation
Transportation
Department of JusticeDepartment of Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Department of HUD
Legislative Aairs
Department of State
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
Recreation
Vice President
Associated Press
Reuters
Agence France Presse
ABC News
The New York Times
Washington Post
Department of the Treasury
Entertainment
36 Urban Circulation Diagram & Section
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37B: CNS South Elevation T: Political Circulation in Urban Fabric
Fox News
CNN
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Communications
Transportation
Transportation
Department of JusticeDepartment of Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Department of Energy
Department of Transportation
Department of HUD
Legislative Aairs
Department of State
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
Recreation
Vice President
Associated Press
Reuters
Agence France Presse
ABC News
The New York Times
Washington Post
Department of the Treasury
Entertainment
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38 Sectional Axonometric - Typical Rhizometric Bar
WHITE HOUSE REDUX
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39Produced by Gabriella Morrone
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This project seeks to create a civic space that directly rejects the tendencies of a typically legal office building: insular, isolated, and plush with privileged luxury. The project intends to collapse the public-private boundary found typically in Syracuse by engaging the public in all levels of the building. The entire building: its green spaces, its cafes, and balconies, and - most importantly legal aid offices, are offered to
ONONDAGA COUNTY LEGAL SERVICESCOMPREHENSIVE DESIGN PROJECT
the citizenry as a public amenity just as the fountain was once the greatest urban asset. By engaging the public throughout the building, and bringing it deep within and high upon the project, the concept of a building participating in the civic fabric is manifest.
Design collaboration with Nilus Klingel
RESPECTFULLY RADICALCreating a Public Office for a New Civic Identity
1. A new civic structure raises issues: of how to participate, and of how to comment on the urban community - the situation of the civic square
2. Civic qualities are represented: Justice, Redemption, Education. All three are outlets for participation in the life of the community, the whole body; a chance for the fulfillment of the civicus.
3. Thus this is essentially an urban issue. politikosof citizens or the state, from politescitizen, from poliscity
Here in Columbus Circle, the site mediates an area staged by:
the Church (prototypical space for redemption of the individual) the Court (prototypical space for justice: the reconciliation of an individual with his society) the Library (prototypical space for education: the promotion of the individual through the collective efforts of the society)
These are transcendent issues. But they have a unique manifestation in the time and place of Syracuses civic center. Here, a new building is an operation directly on the pulsing heart of the city and its reality. Syracuse has a palpable current urban reality. It is to some degree the typical story of gentrification. It can be hinted at through clichs like town and gown. Newhouses, Connective Corridors, Warehouses and Armory Squares are all attempts to revitalize the city, but are woefully disdainful of the actual demos - the people of the city. They do not activate the common quarters of the city, but rather, dance around their unwelcome presence. Thus, these interventions do not succeed in strengthening the collective life of the urban community, but rather, drive a wedge through the community, creating derision and, in the process, furthering propagating the civic decay they set out to end.
How then can a law office, pregnant with socio-economic baggage, neither fall prey to Syracuses legacy of civic division, nor sidestep it, but rather, delve into its remediation headstrong?
Our project seeks to create a civic space that directly rejects the tendencies of a typicaly legal office building: insular, isolated, and plush with priveleged luxury. The project intends to collapsethe public/private boundary found typically in Syracuse by engaging the public in all levels of thebuilding. The entire building: its green spaces, its cafes, and balconies, and - most importantly - legal aid offices, are offered to the citizenry as a public ammenity just as the fountain was oncethe greatest urban asset. By engaging the public throughout the building, and bringing it deep within and high upon the project, the concept of a building participating in the civic fabric is manifest.
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ROOFLevels 11 + 12
Team:
OFFICESLevels 5-10
CIVICLevels G - 4
SERVICELevels B1, B2, Foundation
All plans 1 = 1/16
RESPECTFULLY RADICALCreating a Public Office for a New Civic Identity
1. A new civic structure raises issues: of how to participate, and of how to comment on the urban community - the situation of the civic square
2. Civic qualities are represented: Justice, Redemption, Education. All three are outlets for participation in the life of the community, the whole body; a chance for the fulfillment of the civicus.
3. Thus this is essentially an urban issue. politikosof citizens or the state, from politescitizen, from poliscity
Here in Columbus Circle, the site mediates an area staged by:
the Church (prototypical space for redemption of the individual) the Court (prototypical space for justice: the reconciliation of an individual with his society) the Library (prototypical space for education: the promotion of the individual through the collective efforts of the society)
These are transcendent issues. But they have a unique manifestation in the time and place of Syracuses civic center. Here, a new building is an operation directly on the pulsing heart of the city and its reality. Syracuse has a palpable current urban reality. It is to some degree the typical story of gentrification. It can be hinted at through clichs like town and gown. Newhouses, Connective Corridors, Warehouses and Armory Squares are all attempts to revitalize the city, but are woefully disdainful of the actual demos - the people of the city. They do not activate the common quarters of the city, but rather, dance around their unwelcome presence. Thus, these interventions do not succeed in strengthening the collective life of the urban community, but rather, drive a wedge through the community, creating derision and, in the process, furthering propagating the civic decay they set out to end.
How then can a law office, pregnant with socio-economic baggage, neither fall prey to Syracuses legacy of civic division, nor sidestep it, but rather, delve into its remediation headstrong?
Our project seeks to create a civic space that directly rejects the tendencies of a typicaly legal office building: insular, isolated, and plush with priveleged luxury. The project intends to collapsethe public/private boundary found typically in Syracuse by engaging the public in all levels of thebuilding. The entire building: its green spaces, its cafes, and balconies, and - most importantly - legal aid offices, are offered to the citizenry as a public ammenity just as the fountain was oncethe greatest urban asset. By engaging the public throughout the building, and bringing it deep within and high upon the project, the concept of a building participating in the civic fabric is manifest.
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RESPECTFULLY RADICALCreating a Public Office for a New Civic Identity
1. A new civic structure raises issues: of how to participate, and of how to comment on the urban community - the situation of the civic square
2. Civic qualities are represented: Justice, Redemption, Education. All three are outlets for participation in the life of the community, the whole body; a chance for the fulfillment of the civicus.
3. Thus this is essentially an urban issue. politikosof citizens or the state, from politescitizen, from poliscity
Here in Columbus Circle, the site mediates an area staged by:
the Church (prototypical space for redemption of the individual) the Court (prototypical space for justice: the reconciliation of an individual with his society) the Library (prototypical space for education: the promotion of the individual through the collective efforts of the society)
These are transcendent issues. But they have a unique manifestation in the time and place of Syracuses civic center. Here, a new building is an operation directly on the pulsing heart of the city and its reality. Syracuse has a palpable current urban reality. It is to some degree the typical story of gentrification. It can be hinted at through clichs like town and gown. Newhouses, Connective Corridors, Warehouses and Armory Squares are all attempts to revitalize the city, but are woefully disdainful of the actual demos - the people of the city. They do not activate the common quarters of the city, but rather, dance around their unwelcome presence. Thus, these interventions do not succeed in strengthening the collective life of the urban community, but rather, drive a wedge through the community, creating derision and, in the process, furthering propagating the civic decay they set out to end.
How then can a law office, pregnant with socio-economic baggage, neither fall prey to Syracuses legacy of civic division, nor sidestep it, but rather, delve into its remediation headstrong?
Our project seeks to create a civic space that directly rejects the tendencies of a typicaly legal office building: insular, isolated, and plush with priveleged luxury. The project intends to collapsethe public/private boundary found typically in Syracuse by engaging the public in all levels of thebuilding. The entire building: its green spaces, its cafes, and balconies, and - most importantly - legal aid offices, are offered to the citizenry as a public ammenity just as the fountain was oncethe greatest urban asset. By engaging the public throughout the building, and bringing it deep within and high upon the project, the concept of a building participating in the civic fabric is manifest.
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RESPECTFULLY RADICALCreating a Public Office for a New Civic Identity
1. A new civic structure raises issues: of how to participate, and of how to comment on the urban community - the situation of the civic square
2. Civic qualities are represented: Justice, Redemption, Education. All three are outlets for participation in the life of the community, the whole body; a chance for the fulfillment of the civicus.
3. Thus this is essentially an urban issue. politikosof citizens or the state, from politescitizen, from poliscity
Here in Columbus Circle, the site mediates an area staged by:
the Church (prototypical space for redemption of the individual) the Court (prototypical space for justice: the reconciliation of an individual with his society) the Library (prototypical space for education: the promotion of the individual through the collective efforts of the society)
These are transcendent issues. But they have a unique manifestation in the time and place of Syracuses civic center. Here, a new building is an operation directly on the pulsing heart of the city and its reality. Syracuse has a palpable current urban reality. It is to some degree the typical story of gentrification. It can be hinted at through clichs like town and gown. Newhouses, Connective Corridors, Warehouses and Armory Squares are all attempts to revitalize the city, but are woefully disdainful of the actual demos - the people of the city. They do not activate the common quarters of the city, but rather, dance around their unwelcome presence. Thus, these interventions do not succeed in strengthening the collective life of the urban community, but rather, drive a wedge through the community, creating derision and, in the process, furthering propagating the civic decay they set out to end.
How then can a law office, pregnant with socio-economic baggage, neither fall prey to Syracuses legacy of civic division, nor sidestep it, but rather, delve into its remediation headstrong?
Our project seeks to create a civic space that directly rejects the tendencies of a typicaly legal office building: insular, isolated, and plush with priveleged luxury. The project intends to collapsethe public/private boundary found typically in Syracuse by engaging the public in all levels of thebuilding. The entire building: its green spaces, its cafes, and balconies, and - most importantly - legal aid offices, are offered to the citizenry as a public ammenity just as the fountain was oncethe greatest urban asset. By engaging the public throughout the building, and bringing it deep within and high upon the project, the concept of a building participating in the civic fabric is manifest.
ONONDAGA COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES BUILDING Columbus Circle, Syracuse, NY . Studio: Prof. B. Coleman . Team: Stephen Klimek + Nilus Klingel
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RESPECTFULLY RADICALCreating a Public Office for a New Civic Identity
1. A new civic structure raises issues: of how to participate, and of how to comment on the urban community - the situation of the civic square
2. Civic qualities are represented: Justice, Redemption, Education. All three are outlets for participation in the life of the community, the whole body; a chance for the fulfillment of the civicus.
3. Thus this is essentially an urban issue. politikosof citizens or the state, from politescitizen, from poliscity
Here in Columbus Circle, the site mediates an area staged by:
the Church (prototypical space for redemption of the individual) the Court (prototypical space for justice: the reconciliation of an individual with his society) the Library (prototypical space for education: the promotion of the individual through the collective efforts of the society)
These are transcendent issues. But they have a unique manifestation in the time and place of Syracuses civic center. Here, a new building is an operation directly on the pulsing heart of the city and its reality. Syracuse has a palpable current urban reality. It is to some degree the typical story of gentrification. It can be hinted at through clichs like town and gown. Newhouses, Connective Corridors, Warehouses and Armory Squares are all attempts to revitalize the city, but are woefully disdainful of the actual demos - the people of the city. They do not activate the common quarters of the city, but rather, dance around their unwelcome presence. Thus, these interventions do not succeed in strengthening the collective life of the urban community, but rather, drive a wedge through the community, creating derision and, in the process, furthering propagating the civic decay they set out to end.
How then can a law office, pregnant with socio-economic baggage, neither fall prey to Syracuses legacy of civic division, nor sidestep it, but rather, delve into its remediation headstrong?
Our project seeks to create a civic space that directly rejects the tendencies of a typicaly legal office building: insular, isolated, and plush with priveleged luxury. The project intends to collapsethe public/private boundary found typically in Syracuse by engaging the public in all levels of thebuilding. The entire building: its green spaces, its cafes, and balconies, and - most importantly - legal aid offices, are offered to the citizenry as a public ammenity just as the fountain was oncethe greatest urban asset. By engaging the public throughout the building, and bringing it deep within and high upon the project, the concept of a building participating in the civic fabric is manifest.
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RESPECTFULLY RADICALCreating a Public Office for a New Civic Identity
1. A new civic structure raises issues: of how to participate, and of how to comment on the urban community - the situation of the civic square
2. Civic qualities are represented: Justice, Redemption, Education. All three are outlets for participation in the life of the community, the whole body; a chance for the fulfillment of the civicus.
3. Thus this is essentially an urban issue. politikosof citizens or the state, from politescitizen, from poliscity
Here in Columbus Circle, the site mediates an area staged by:
the Church (prototypical space for redemption of the individual) the Court (prototypical space for justice: the reconciliation of an individual with his society) the Library (prototypical space for education: the promotion of the individual through the collective efforts of the society)
These are transcendent issues. But they have a unique manifestation in the time and place of Syracuses civic center. Here, a new building is an operation directly on the pulsing heart of the city and its reality. Syracuse has a palpable current urban reality. It is to some degree the typical story of gentrification. It can be hinted at through clichs like town and gown. Newhouses, Connective Corridors, Warehouses and Armory Squares are all attempts to revitalize the city, but are woefully disdainful of the actual demos - the people of the city. They do not activate the common quarters of the city, but rather, dance around their unwelcome presence. Thus, these interventions do not succeed in strengthening the collective life of the urban community, but rather, drive a wedge through the community, creating derision and, in the process, furthering propagating the civic decay they set out to end.
How then can a law office, pregnant with socio-economic baggage, neither fall prey to Syracuses legacy of civic division, nor sidestep it, but rather, delve into its remediation headstrong?
Our project seeks to create a civic space that directly rejects the tendencies of a typicaly legal office building: insular, isolated, and plush with priveleged luxury. The project intends to collapsethe public/private boundary found typically in Syracuse by engaging the public in all levels of thebuilding. The entire building: its green spaces, its cafes, and balconies, and - most importantly - legal aid offices, are offered to the citizenry as a public ammenity just as the fountain was oncethe greatest urban asset. By engaging the public throughout the building, and bringing it deep within and high upon the project, the concept of a building participating in the civic fabric is manifest.
ONONDAGA COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES BUILDING Columbus Circle, Syracuse, NY . Studio: Prof. B. Coleman . Team: Stephen Klimek + Nilus Klingel
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The sustainability superstore is a product of exploring the architecture of the experience economy and the scripting of spatial experience.
Using the tools of experience design this sustainability experience store prototype produces something more socially complex, politically engaging, and architecturally stimulating than the current experience economy.
SUSTAINABILITY SUPERSTORESPECULATIVE DESIGN PROJECT
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tel 716.531.0282email [email protected] designingactivism.com