Thesis Research_Activist [re] Action

ACTIVIST [re] ACTION:

u si n g d e si g n a s a wa r e n ess + knowledge

ACTIVIST [re] ACTION

us ing des ign as awar e n e ss + kn o wle d g e

T his F inal Pro je ct is p r e se n t e d t o T he F ac ult y of t he Sc h o o l o f Ar ch it e ct u r e by

Hector I. Lopez I n part ial f ulf illment of t he requirement s f o r t h e De g r e e o f Bac h e lo r o f Ar ch it e ct u r e Sout hern Poly t ec hnic St at e Univ ers it y, M a r ie t t a , Ge o r g ia Spr in g Se me st e r 2 01 4

T hes is Collabor a t ive 2 01 3 - 2 01 4 Reques t f or Approva l o f Pr o je ct Bo o k Depart m e n t o f Ar ch it e ct u r e Sc hool of Arc hit ec t ure and Cons t r u ct io n Ma n a g e me n t Sout hern Poly t ec h n ic St a t e Un ive r sit y He ct o r I . L o p e z ACTI VI ST [r e ] ACT I ON

a b st ra ct:

This proposal presents an architectural design as a form that promotes human socio-cultural awareness. Human trafficking is a drastically growing crime, however it is a crime that is going unnoticed or ignored by our society. The approach assumes a chain of environments that will contain displays, workshops, agendas, and services that will inform the dynamics of human trafficking to the community; with the intention of providing aid to the victims. The result aims to create a movement that will trigger the community to become aware and to react accordingly to the problem. Architecturally designed learning spaces for victims and volunteers will create opportunities for social interactions and possible healing.

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d e d i ca t i on : This book is dedicated to the twenty seven million men, women, and children that are trapped in modern day slavery throughout the world and the city of Atlanta. It is through this work that I attempt to idealise how our community will become aware and take action upon this massive issue that is in front of us everyday. I hope this work serves as a voice for those who do not have one.

a ckn o wle d g me n t Thank you Lord for guiding my path. It is your mercy and grace which has guided me through my every move. I give all the glory to you. _ I would like to thank all of my middle school (Lakeview Middle School) and high school (Lakeview Fort-Oglethorpe High) teachers, you all had something to do on how I did things. You were my stepping stones for this mountain. Rock Pointe Family, thank you for being my moral and faith support. Thanks for the food care-packages when I was hungry and the automobile fixes when something unexpected went wrong with the good’ole Maxima. Pastor Keith and Nancy Jones, thanks for all help you provided me with and the inspiration you give me to be a better man in Christ. The Davis and The Pangle Families, thanks for being there for me everyday. Gerald and Tammy, you two are too cool for school. Jessica, William and ‘Champ’ Baylee, thanks for the Walking Dead nights. Drew, you’re my boy blue! Haley, you are the person that I trust the most in this world, thank you for being there for me 24/7-365. You have been with me through the toughest times of my life and you have done so much for me. Without you this would have been even harder to accomplish.

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2.1 SITE research

3.1 PROGRAMMATICALLY ANALYSIS

4.1 PRELIMINARY DOCUMENTATION

1.1 DESIGN HYPOTHESIS

2.2 SITE ANALYSIS

3.2 HEALING SPACES

4.2 FINAL DOCUMENTATION

1.2 INFO GRAPHIC

3.3 SITE EXPLORATION

1.3 LITERATURE: CASE STUDIES

3.4 EXISTING STRUCTURE [RE-USE]

1.4 PROPOSED PROJECT NATURE 1.5 PRINCIPLES 1.6 PRECEDENT ANALYSIS 1.6.1 PROGRAMMATIC CENSUS 1.6.2 PROGRAMMATIC MATRIX

3.5 PRINCIPLES OF VIEWS 3.6 CONCEPTUAL GESTURES

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5.1 REFLECTIONS BY AUTHOR

8.1. FINAL PRESENTATION

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1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 DESIGN HYPOTHESIS 1.2 INFO GRAPHIC 1.3 LITERATURE: CASE STUDIES 1.4 PROPOSED PROJECT NATURE 1.5 PRINCIPLES 1.6 PRECEDENT ANALYSIS 1.6.1 PROGRAMMATIC CENSUS 1.6.2 PROGRAMMATIC MATRIX

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4.2 FINAL DOCUMENTATION

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1. U.S. Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, 2012

design theorem INTRODUCTION

Twenty seven million. That’s the staggering number of men, women and children trapped in slavery around the world right now. That’s more enslaved people today, than at any other time in history. From factories to brothels, private homes to fields, millions upon millions of people are living as modern–day slaves under the control of others. 2 In the United States, there are about 200,000 modern day slaves and about 17,500 men and women are being trafficked annually in and out of the country. On top of that, the city of ATLANTA is a major hub of human trafficking and it is ranked amongst the top 14 cities in the United States for the highest incidence of children used in prostitution. In month, approximately 300-500 girls are commercially sexually exploited throughout Georgia. 3 Given these numbers, one may consider some fundamental questions: Why are there so many sexual exploited children in the world and in the USA, why are the numbers increasing, and what kind of typology might reduce the numbers of exploited children?

2. U.S. Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, 2012 3. G e o r g i a B u r e a u o f I n ve st i g a t i o n Hu ma n T r a f f i cki n g Un i t . 2 0 1 3

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This proposal presents an architectural design as a form that promotes human socio-cultural awareness. Human trafficking is a drastically growing crime, however it is a crime that is going unnoticed or ignored by our society. The approach assumes a chain of environments that will contain displays, workshops, agendas, and services that will inform the dynamics of human trafficking to the community; with the intention of providing aid to the victims. The result aims to create a movement that will trigger the community to become aware and to react accordingly to the problem. Architecturally designed learning spaces for victims and volunteers will create opportunities for social interactions and possible healing.

The product: Victims will have an opportunity to become part of the community, while the community serves and acknowledges the victims. The underlying architectural formula will contain dynamic programming, adaptable, and sustainable designs in order to implement the overall intentions of architecturally promoting a cultural change.

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WHAT IS HAPPENING? Millions of people are being enslaved world wide right now...

WORLD WIDE

...However, many do not know that this is happening in our own country...

U.S.A

...and on our own backyard.

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ATLANTA

Number of adolescents

Recorded Adolescents in Georgia’s Sex Trade

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Trafficking:

LITERATURE INSPIRATION: THE SIX PRINCIPLES

HUMAN TRAFFICKING _ DEFINED

violation of a person’s civil rights.

1. Every Person has the right to live in a socially, economically, and environmentally healthy community.

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2. Advocate with those who have limited voice in public life.

3. Build structures for inclusion that engage stakeholders and allow communities to make decisions.

Sex Trafficking:

Co mme r c i a l s e x a c t t h a t i s i n d u c e d b y f o r c e , f r a u d o r c o e r c i o n .

4. Promote social equality through discourse that reflects a range of values and social identities.

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5. Generate ideas that grow from place and build local capacity.

6. A community’s design should help conserve resources and minimize waste.

“A small percentage of the population, the elite, benefits from architectural services, This inequality, augmented my other injustices like pollution, racial discrimination, high cost housing, and lack of social status, creates many places that are not “preferred”. With most of the population lacking a voice in design processes, our communities lose its character, diversity, affordability, and integrity that make them thrive.” 4

Child Sexual Exploitation:

Ch i l d p o r n o g r a p h y , j u v e n i l e p r o s t i t u t i o n a n d t r a f f i c k i n g i n c h i l d r e n f o r s e x u a l p u r p o s e s . Ch i l d i s u n d e r t h e a g e o f 18 . 5

Building for the people that do not have a voice on design process is vital towards our communication between segregated parties within our communities. The main idea is to serve the people that do not have the means to speak for themselves so that we can achieve balance of civil rights in our societies.

Domestic Servitude (Labor)Trafficking:

Re c r u i t m e n t , h a r b o r i n g , t r a n s p o r t a t i o n , p r o v i s i o n o r o b t a i n i n g o f a p e r so n f o r l a b o r o r services by means of force, fraud or coercion. 5

4. Bell, B., & Wakefor d, K. (2 008 ). Ex pandi ng Arc hi tec ture: Desi g n a s Ac t i v i s m.

5 . G e o r g i a B u r e a u o f I n ve st i g a t i o n Hu ma n T r a f f i cki n g Un i t

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What are guidelines for a core shelter?

Research Intent:

What is the ideal environment?

Recovery:

Shelters + Drop-in Centers:

THE REHABILITATION AND REINTEGRATION PROCESS FOR WOMAN AND CHILDREN RECOVERING FROM THE SEX TRADE

THE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2010

Shelters for trafficking victims offer safe refuge and comprehensive services, while considering trafficked persons’ sense of empowerment, trust, and community need to be re-built.

Decoding of Challenges, Strategies, and Support Systems regarding the rehabilitation and reintegration process for women and children recovering from the sex trade.

Traffickers deny victims their basic freedoms, leaving them feeling trapped, fearful, and ashamed. A shelter is often the first place victims are offered assistance and begin to rebuild what was shattered by the trafficker. Ideally the victims’ core values must be rebuild, therefore environments most be design so that victims can grow and adjust:

Efforts must simultaneously address the physical, psychological, behavioral, social, and economic issues encountered by these individuals.

ALL survivors require a central location for support, counseling, education and skills training, medical services, and a supportive community.

access to family, friends, and the community outside the shelter; power to decide their own recovery plan; comfortable accommodations resembling a residence, not a jail; respectful treatment as individuals with rights and not as criminal offenders; respectful, caring, and qualified staff; and, opportunities to work and the ability to leave the shelter at will.

Many women and children recovering from sex trade require temporary housing. Such individuals were more than likely trafficked into the sex trade and are unable to return to their communities due to distance, danger from criminal networks, or community rejection. Also, recovering sex slaves may also require extensive psychological counseling and long-term care.

Trafficked persons’ safety and well-being should be the core of all services, therefore private areas should be easy to access.

Counseling:

Because of the extensive psychological and behavioral effects arising from involvement in the sex trade, counseling services are imperative. This work happens when recovery centers partner with private care facilities and public social workers in order to offer counseling services.

Types of Offered Services:

Trafficked persons require some combination of comprehensive services, including psychological, medical, legal, educational, life skills, vocational, and translation/interpretation.

Medical Care:

Conclusion:

Most shelters or drop-in centers are capable of providing basic health services such as nutrition, hygiene, and primary care. Similar to counseling services, medical care is provided largely by private or public healthcare providers. Also, Doctors or nurses periodically visit rehabilitation centers. 7

6. U.S. Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report, 2010

7. Wickham, Leah, The Rehabilitation and Reintegration Process for Women and Children Recovering from the Sex Trade. 2009, April 21.

Shelters for trafficked persons should not be a detention facility used to safeguard the person before return to the country of origin. Instead, shelters should be both a safe haven and a place where trafficked persons can access critical and comprehensive services beyond emergency assistance of food and shelter. These services help the trafficked person begin the process of healing body and mind and reintegrating into society. They may also serve a preventive purpose and decrease the likelihood of retrafficking. 6

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design theorem PROPOSED PROJECT NATURE These three ideas (Awareness + Communal Spaces + Learning/Teaching) are crucial for the success of this project; however, the three concepts present challenges:

In today’s society, one crime continues to go unnoticed and acknowledged by the masses. The act of Commercial Exploitation (Modern Slavery) has become greater than it has ever been in our history. 8 According to studies, there are about 27 million men, women, and children that are trapped in slavery today. 8 However, many think that this problem is a “third world country problem” and that is not a real ‘thing’ happening in the United States. Studies have shown that 17,500 people are trafficked annually in and out of the this country. In addition, to the staggering numbers, the FBI has placed the city of Atlanta as one of the most active and largest cities for Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE).9 This project will focus on three main points that have originated from intensive research and interviews from persons that have worked with victims.

Private Spaces v. Public Spaces This is a huge conflict that lives within the Thesis. The goal is to have an adequate spacial program that will allow the involvement of victims along with the education and activism of the community. Subsequently, safety and acceptance will also play a part to this conflict of meshing the two tectonic nodes.

The proposed architectural formula will contain dynamic programming, modular identities, adaptable design, and sustainable entities in order to implement the overall intentions of architecturally promoting cultural change. The dynamic programming will be sensitive to private and public identities that will promote the spaces for community use and individual use. Also, a combination of overlapping spaces between the community and individual must be created so that both parties receives what is needed from each other.

1. Awareness: This is the first step that all of us, as community, must take for there to be change in the status. The purpose of this activist design is to create a movement that will allow the masses to update their knowledge about what is happening around them.

Site Selection: Modular identities will be use so that in an event of population change (of victims) happens, the built space can be easily moved from place to place. According to the studies and interviews, CSE is mobile from zone to zone, from city to city; therefore, it would be ideal if the structure was modular. Adaptable design could be implemented when there is an range in age, size of population, and site. Sustainable entities will always be an important aspect to the project. Material, site, passive ideas will also be implemented.

2. Communal Spaces: There has to be a place where a victim of CSE could take refuge if he or she escapes or is rescued by authorities. Communal Spaces will be helpful to the survivors so that they can regain their social status back.

3. Learning/Teaching: There is correlation with the community learning about what is happening, and the victims learning how to become to be a par of the community. The two work hand in hand.

8. U.S . State Depar tment, 9. S wecker , Chr is, Acting Ex ec uti v e As s i s tant Di rec tor, Law Enfo r c e me n t Se r v i c e s , FBI ,

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Addressing the need of Awareness-Driven Spaces and Communal Spaces for the used of volunteers and exploited individuals, with relation to the rising number of human trafficking coming in and going out of the metro Atlanta.

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design theorem PRECEDENT ANALYSIS

In the city of Atlanta, and through the United States, there are just a hand full of typologies that deal with the commercial sexual exploitation of children. In addition to the lack of typologies available to cope for this problem, when typologies that are in place for the use of CSE victims they are still inadequate. Meaning, that one could not find a prominent correlation with the victims and the adjacent community. As stated before, the community must be aware of the problem, and the victims must have access to a core of people who they can rely on so that can become part of the community.

In the following series of precedent studies, each study of typology will show can offer to the public and the victims at various scales.

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Veilige Veste = Safe Fortress KAW Architecten Leeuwarden, The Netherlands FIGURE 2

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Centralized Gathering

Isolation Vertical Circulation

1st Floor Plan

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Gerard Van Beek Fotografie

Unaccessible Secluded Site

fort-like envelope no one comes in, no one goes out

Construction: The shelter was converted from a former police station. Passive Systems are very prominent.

absent outdoor/green spaces

The shelter is very equipped for service programming, where the girls get professional help.

ultimately private, even from within.

2nd Floor Plan

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The envelope helps the perception of that is shelter, however the design cannot react with outside sources.

Gerard Van Beek Fotografie

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St. Joseph Rebuild Center studio wta (New Orleans, Louisianna)

FIGURE 5

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Urban Context

Social Context

Located in the heart of the city of New Orleans, with ultimate discretion of the inhabitants. Easily accessible to residence of the city with major transit going through it.

This design is highly driven by social interactions, which occur within multiple gathering spaces. The spaces are strategically placed where choices can be make. Sun, shade, green spaces, and seating are some of those choices that individuals can choose from.

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studioWTA

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studioWTA

Identity: A day center for unprivileged people that provides meals, showers, ability to make phone calls, health and mental health care, immigration assistance, and other services. Overall, a temporary refuge place where a person in need can feel welcomed and relaxed.

Purpose: _St. Joseph Rebuild Center provides a dignified, well designed daytime service facility for unprivileged individuals. _Contribution to the urban fabric of New Orleans, by transforming a parking lot into a building that relates to the street. _Meets the most basic needs of its users in an environment that is safe and respectful

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Safe Horizon’s Drop-In Centers (New York) FIGURE 10

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Concepts

Contents

Drop In Centers are used for short term living (1-2 nights) and necessities (washing clothes, shower). They have no architectural identity, because most building typology could be used. Moreover, Drop in Centers

In city positions, however it is hidden to the public.

They are located where it can easily access, transit is very important aspect to the project.

Easy to move in and out to another building topology.

FIGURE 11

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Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery Wodiczko + Bonder (Nantes, France) FIGURE 12

Wodiczko+Bonder

Purpose

Usage

Design Intent

With the aim of being above all historic, the project still continues into the present and proposes a physical transformation and symbolic reinforcement of 350 meters of the coast of the Loire along Quai de la Fosse.

This working memorial includes the adaptation of a pre-existing underground residual space.

It provides space and means for remembering and thinking about slavery and the slave trade; the abolitionist struggle; celebrating the historic act of abolition; and for bringing the visitor closer to the continuing struggle against present-day forms of slavery.

It attempts to engage the visitor in the search for memory, through absences of direct signs, making palpable the idea of opening up spaces for memory to be found within.

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Museum of Tolerance Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design (Los Angeles, California) FIGURE 14

Yazdani Studio

Purpose

Build

The Museum of Tolerance (MOT) focuses on issues of tolerance, rights and diversity. The Museum aims to confront and promote a dialogue on these issues in a hands-on interactive manner.

To build upon it initial success the MOT aimed to reposition the Museum from an experiential learning center into a cultural center for the Westside of Los Angeles. Designed in two phases – the first completed phase focuses on the interior spaces of the Museum while the second phase, in progress, expands the Museum.

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‘Stormcloud’ Installation Oyler Wu Collaborative FIGURE 17

Build

Installation

Geometrically, the project involves a series of funnel-like forms that extend from the rectilinear canopy structure above to a series of rings that are hung from the columns at around eye level. In the original conception of the project, the rings were simple geometric loops, but this relatively straight-forward geometric approach presented a difficult problem in terms of fabric patterning.

The purpose of this installation is to gather people, along with a phenomenal experience.

Experiences shared with others are also important to this project.

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Oyler Wu Collaborative

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Oyler Wu Collaborative

1.6 PRECEDENT ANALYSIS We have looked at various typologies that will shape the thesis project and its programmatic spaces.

The compilation of ideas explored in the precedent analysis also will be the foundation for how public spaces will be placed and manipulate within the project hypothesis.

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Study: This study of typologies along with programmatic spaces will determine the spaces needed to achieve awareness and social aid for human trafficking victims.

Primary Spaces 1. Workshops 2. Group Directed 3. Sustainable Secondary Spaces 1. Mobile 2. Service 3. Accessible Tertiary Spaces 1. Adaptable 2. Public 3. Fitness

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HI DDE N I N PLAIN VIEW: EXPLOIT AT ION OF GIRLS IN AT LANT A by alexandra priebe

R e s ea r c h I nt e nt :

Response to heightened awareness and concern about the commercial sexual exploitation of children (boys and girls), the commercial sex industry (including formal and informal prostitution), and trafficking of young woman and girls into Atlanta for the purpose of sexual exploitation by: 1. Providing analysis of the populations at risk and trends across the city.

2. Exploring the demographic and geographic characteristics of the girls being commercially sexually exploited.

3. Mapping he geographic distribution of commercial sex “hot spots�?

4. Describing the social and health services provided to sexually exploited girls.

5. Describing the statutory response to the sexual exploitation of girls. 10

O ther fin d i ng s :

Recruitment Areas: MARTA, Bus stops, Malls, Underground Atlanta.

Spatial correlation between areas of adult prostitution activities and juvenile prostitution-related activities.

Juvenile runaways are often found in ares with heavy adult prostitution activities.

Victims of CSE are held in the Metro Regional Youth Detention Center, which often proves to be an unsafe and unresponsive. Not prepared to deal with the special needs of CSE cases. 10

C o n c lu s io n s :

By using Atlanta Police Zones and their 911 phone calls, the study was able to determine prostitution activities (adult+juvenile) and their established prominent areas Zone I

Zone II

Located in the northwest quadrant of Atlanta and covers 26 miles. Contains 24 public schools along with Atlanta Univ. Center, Clark Atlanta Univ., Morehouse College, and more

Covers 44 square miles and fifty seven district neighborhoods.

Red Areas: Peachtree Road, Piedmont at I-85

Red Area: Vine St. 10. Priebe, Alexandra. Hidden in Plain View: The commercial Sexual Exploitation of Girls in Atlanta. September 2010.

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Zone III

Zone IV

Zone V

Zone VI

Located in the southeast and southwest quadrants of Atlanta and covers 24 square miles.

Contains Turner Field, Atlanta Zoo, and Cyclorama.

Located at I20 at the Central of GA Rairoad going South to the City Limits, then follows the City Limits West, then north to I20.

Encompasses Downtown, Midtown, Underground, Ansley Park, and Historic Auburn Ave. Phillips Arena, GA Dome, and GA World Congress Center are also located in this zone.

Located in both Fulton and Dekalb Counties.

Red Areas: Metropolitan Pkw., Cleveland Ave. FIGURE 21

Alexandra Priebe

Red Areas: Campbellton Road from Stanto to Main Street FIGURE 22

Red Areas: Moreland to I20 and Memorial Drive.

Red Areas: 10th St. to Decatur Ave. and I75 to Boulevard Ave. (Most victims recorded)

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The Ponce de Leon Ballpark opens, in what is now the Midtown Plaza shopping center, to host the Atlanta Crackers, who played there until the 1960s.

1917

The Ponce de Leon Amusement Park opens, on the site of what would become the Sears building and the Historic Fourth Ward Park.

1907

Atlanta’s Fourth Ward is established by a new city charter. The original political district extended to the northeastern city limits, bounded by West Peachtree to the west and the Georgia Railroad tracks to the south.

1903

Atlanta residents began visiting the springs in John Armistead’s beech grove two miles east of town., approximately 50 yds. south of the intersection of Ponce de Leon and the Atlanta Beltline.

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1860’s

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Atlanta’s Great Fire, all neighborhood grand houses were destroyed and replaced by brick apartment buildings.

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Its past is rich of civil rights movement history, prosperity, and rich culture. Located in Zone 5 and Zone 6, The Old Fourth Ward is defined as the area that stretches from Piedmont Avenue and Downtown Atlanta on the west to the BeltLine and the PonceyHighland and Inman Park neighborhoods on the east.

Sears Roebuck builds its Southern Regional Distribution Center on Ponce de Leon, then and still, the largest brick building in the Southeast.

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Total 2010 population of the Old Fourth Ward is 10,505.

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The Old Fourth Ward declined precipitously during the 1950s and 1960s as wealthier residents moved further out from central neighborhoods.

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With the Beltline at full force in Old Forth Ward, this are has blossom greatly. Living , working and playing has been installed in this community and it has created other opportunities. This has created an open minded community and has expended its culinary and artistic innovation.

Old Forth Ward continues to become an urban slifestyle of work/play atmosphere

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This will be a platform were the city enables the integration of everybody in the community to come together and learn about the problem in their city.

The community will be able to have educational spaces that make them able to learn about trafficking issues and how to apply themselves. Educational spaces will also feature victims as workshops.

These workshops will help victims to be a part of society as health individuals.

Health will be an important program for the design. It will contain spaces were victims can be looked at for physical or mental needs.

Gardens and outdoor spaces are necessities that victims of sex trafficking need for growth and development for restoration.

Installation spaces will be use as temporary art displays where the community and victims work together making and displaying art pieces.

Gatherings and meeting about this cause is important so that our community can overcome it.

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Entertainment is a great way to work back into society. Spaces like this will take some stress out of the victims’ minds, therefore it becomes a very important space.

Mental and Physical therapy is vital to this project. These spaces will be occupied by professionals and victims, so that they can work together.

Living spaces will be available to victims that need them. It is important that the privacy becomes priority within these spaces. The living areas accommodates kitchen, bedroom, bathing, living room, and larger communal residential spaces.

Service spaces are also necessities that this type of design will need to be successful.

This space provides the family orientated activities within the facility, bringing everyone together which most of the children got without for most of their lives.

Athletics for the youth is oriented at allowing a healthy and active lifestyle. A public space where the community and staff are able to engage in sports and exercise programs with the youth.

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2. Serenity

Architecture could be more than a building acting as a shelter from the elements; and it could be more than being beautiful or ugly building, Architecture, if applied correctly, could be a space where one could find intriguing and relaxing spaces. The spaces that become integrated with nature and the outdoors start to become our healing spaces. This idea can be traced back to earlier designs like Mesa Verde, and Ancient Roman Thermal Baths. Many of us have observed the powerful experience that the man-made environment can provoke.

The sense of scale on mountains offers a perspective seldom achieved in other spaces. It offers the opportunity to see a lot without overloading our senses. The fusion of elements at the distance creates continuity and harmony

Architecture has the power to create meaningful spaces. In past centuries, churches and cathedrals have embodied a sense of majesty, solemnity, serenity, and peacefulness. These carefully designed spaces were created to induce certain feelings and emotions. As in past architecture, we can still create powerful experiences that help the human soul to look beyond its limitations.

The body and mind experiences great serenity and comfort when it is exposed to Natural Environments, therefore it is important to evolve from this concept. We may not create the same feelings that we get from nature, however, creating positive feelings is the key.

Analysis of a Natural Space

3. Belonging

1. The Outlook By studying nature, one beings to examine experiences, feelings, tranquillity.

When looking out at a great landscape one notices that everything fits together. No pieces are juxtaposed. This brings the realization that we too, are part of that landscape. This togetherness reminds us that we belong here; it gives us a sense of value.

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6. Water + Space It is interesting to note how popular waterfalls and other water features are. They usually are the central gathering area in squares and parks. The qualities of running water are very appealing to most people. In nature the same concept applies, people gather and walk to the waterfalls or creeks. These are spaces where people gravitated to or feel the most controvertible.

4. The Senses When analyzing a space we must include all of our senses. Besides vision, we use all the other senses to perceive a space. These are hearing, smelling, and touching.

Touching: is something that is natural to us, this gives us a sense of scale. Also, One can feel the air moving and the natural forces of gravity make the terrain more tangible. The soil differences and the change in topography make the procession to the top a complete sensory experience.

7. Refreshing Everyone can argue that on a warm day a waterfall can be very refreshing. What about that feeling of refreshment that we get even in cold weather? A waterfall provides cool fresh air. This creates a healthy environment in which our brain receives fresh air, allowing it to think clearly. It allows us to relax from physical and mental stress.

Sound: The hard and soft properties of the mountain produce an echo that brings back attenuated sounds, which makes the experience richer.

Smell: Different kinds of flowers, plants, and animals provide a range of aromas, fragrances and odors.

Each area has its own smell to mark the ascension.

5. Diversity

8. Waterfall Sounds The hard urface behind the falls increases the noise level produced by the falls. The constant rush of water creates a soothing effect, even right behind the falls, where the noise level is higher.

Colors, shapes and forms fill the space, creating a rich environment. Diversity in the space provides joy to the eye and beauty to the soul. Diversity without confusion is the key to bring tranquillity to a space.

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