LIVING PARADOX The objective of prison design is to provide secure conditions for the prisoner and civilian. Rather than considering the prison as a place of punishment, the prison needs to be recognized as a place of reform to help reduce the rate of recidivism. This project lives on 30th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, acting as the gateway into West Philadelphia. A microcosm of the city, the prison provides its residents with work experience and educational opportunities to prepare them for a productive life beyond prison. At the spatial intersection of the overhead residential volumes with the street level public volume is a visitation space for prisoner and civilian. An articulated perforated metal panel system allows each prisoner to control the amount of daylight and visibility into their cell. The changes in aperture of these panels allow the public to engage in the transformational experience of the prisoner, and to view the prison as a collection of individuals vs. a monolithic institution. The limitation, intersection and separation of space, challenge the difference and level of comfort between the prisoner and public space.
Diagrams Depicting Civilian-Prisoner Relationship
View Driving Beneath Prisoner Residences
Expanded Metal Fencing
6 in Concrete Slab on Metal Decking 8 in Steel Angle 18 in Deep Wide-Flange Beam Steel Angle Connection 60 in deep wide-flange girder
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Perforated Panels on rolling connections 18x18 in steel tube
Steel Plate to connect girder to metal tracking
Prisoner Cells have Control Over Facade System to Create a Symbiotic Relationship between Inside and Out
LIVING PARADOX
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Diagrammatic Plans and Sections
500 Prisoner Cell Residence Plan
Section / Facade Rendering
View from Prisoner Cell toward Center City
HARVESTING THE FUTURE The project for Harvesting the Future serves as the model for urban growth by blending technology with natural growing methods. According to the Urban Age Project, 75% of the world’s population will be living in a city by 2050, a leap from the 10% in 1900 and the 25% in 2007. Based on the consumption of 300 calories a day of only fruits and vegetables, one can a feed 375 people, or 150 households, a year. Growing vertically provides social, environmental, and economical benefit to the expanding urban community, and as each element evolves, Harvesting the Future challenges the limits of technology to accommodate the increasing need for farming at the intersection of Race Street and 2nd Street in Philadelphia, PA. The concepts of shifting density and the subsequent need for interweaving spaces have emerged to inform the design approach for Harvesting the Future. Because the incorporation of the public into the program of this building is essential, a market space carves itself into the grade plane to lend itself to become owned by the community through allocated vendor spaces. In the levels above, interior parks are created by weaving planes of hydroponic planter systems with light and with circulation of people. Harvesting the Future integrates seamlessly with the site conditions while setting itself apart visually to state its futuristic addition to the community. This project was a collaborative project with Gary Carnevale & Daniela Rodriguez.
Above: View of Model, Approaching the Entrance Below: Lower Level Market Space Looking Up to the Growing Floors.
Egress Fruits Growth Pod Root Crop Growth Pod Main Market Space on Ground Level Hydroponic Systems Leafy Greens Growth Pod
Above: Axonometric Built in Revit to Show Plan of Growing Level with Hydroponic Water Systems Below: Perspective of Leafy Green Growing Pod
HARVESTING THE FUTURE
Primary Structural Members to Hold Diagrid Facade Glass Structure
reVIEWING THE PARKWAY Time is a crucial factor in the transformation of a city, equal to that of the economic and cultural behaviors of its people. Defining the challenges, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is an urban incision slicing through Philadelphia neighborhoods and generating broken paths of movement for the streets intersecting the Parkway. By developing an edge to Parkway through the expansion of pedestrian space and the contraction of vehicular movement, the Parkway will become balanced as a public space as well as a place for movement. The Benjamin Franklin Parkway serves as a location in Philadelphia that offers a multitude of cultural events to create identity for the user regardless of origination. By establishing a space conducive for multiple user types through the creation of pedestrian bridges and vehicular tunnels, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway can serve as an economic and cultural generator for the City of Philadelphia.
Northwest Philadelphia Connection
Bridge Level Plan
1875 Plan
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reVIEWING THE PARKWAY
Master Plan
Aerial View of Bridge Looking Northwest
EVERYDAY URBANITIES Street food vending is limited to the standard stainless steel cart because it has to meet food handling criteria and has to be within 5’x10’ on the street. However, we, as passerby, don’t see at first glance that a vendor can be fined $1000 for being within 10’ of a crosswalk or out of the 5’x10’ limit. Numerous limitations, and policing of such, restrict the “informal” urban life that make up the everyday culture of the street. At a larger scope, privatization and commodification are threatening our cities’ public space and people’s ability to appropriate such spaces. Street food vending is a practice that transcends food and evokes conversations of immigration, public space and cultural narratives of its people.The street food cart is the physical device for capturing attention and creating agency in the increasingly privatized public realm. This was a collaborative project with Jessica Kisner in completion of the MS Design & Urban Ecologies from Parsons The New School for Design in 2014.
Right 2 Photos: Identifying that given these different forces, peopleare what’s left of “public” space. Below: Map highlighting Business Improvement Districts, Commercial Zoning, and the Proposed BID in Corona, Queens.
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EVERYDAY URBANITIES
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EVERYDAY URBANITIES Above: Creating a space adjacent to cart to discuss topics regarding street vending and public space using the manual in the image on the right. Below: Using the umbrella (the only non-regulated item on the cart) and graphics to create a visual campaign to take back space on the street for the people.
EVERYDAY URBANITIES
BUSHWICK INCLUSIVE There is a chronic housing crisis in New York City that is founded in limited access, unaffordability, a speculative real estate market, and the precariousness of tenure for both renters and owners. The effects from this crisis reverberate throughout the wider community and influence health, economic vitality, educational opportunities, and other social capacities. The Brooklyn community of Bushwick represents both acute and extreme cases of these conditions,and therefore provides a fertile opportunity to co-design innovative solutions that drive social change. Collaborative with: Charles Wirene, April De Simone, Gabrielle Andersen, Charles Chawalko, Ferhat Topuz
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WHAT IS VACANCY?
Spaces and properties that are unavailable for current use due to the transience and lack of determinance of its function.
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HOW DOES THE CITY CLASSIFY SPACE? LAND-USE
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HOW DOES THE CITY CLASSIFY VACANCY? UNAVAILABLITY
Undergoing Renovation Recreational Use In Legal Dispute Awaiting Convesion to a Coop/Condo Pending Sale of Building Owner Unable to Sell Rent is Due Demolition Held for Other Reasons
WHY DOES VACANCY HAPPEN? INBALANCE OF WAGE & RENT
“After the destruction of Rent Control, New Yorkers began to see people sleeping on subways or in church doorways. The homeless population became younger, almost entirely Black or Latino, and began to include women and children and there were a whole lot more of them, as many as 20,000 by the early 1980s. ” h t t p : // g a n g b o x n e w s . b l o g s p o t . com/2012/09/no-vacancy-or-why-doesnew-york-city.html
Foreclosure Short Sale
SYMPTOMS OF HOUSING CRISIS
Shadow Inventory Upside-down Mortgage Shadow REO Property Warehousing In Rem Tax Delinquent
BUSHWICK INCLUSIVE
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HESTER STREET COLLABORATIVE I constructed the Mobile Outreach Tool-Kit used for the Queensway Feasbility Study to explain the process of the project to local communities as well as to gather feedback. While the toolkit had been already been designed, I built this toolkit to be displayed at the exhibition “QueensWay Connection: Elevating The Public Realm � held at the New York City Center for Architecture. Additionally, I began work on designing community engagement mobile tools alongside local organizations to explain urban complexities such as affordable housing options as well as environmentally responsible architecture. While these projects are in their initial stages, I facilitated conversations and designs that advocate community voice in city processes. An initial sketch for a mobile tookit to explain the passive design of the Alley Pond Environmental Center. The design of the building focused on channeling of water as to not overwhelm the surronding weltands and Combined Sewer Outfalls.
HESTER STREET COLLABORATIVE
Initial Sketch and Proposal of Mobile Educational Tool to Explain the Design of Alley Pond Environmental Center.