Sensing Place: a portfolio by Adam Chamy

SENSINGP L AC E

a p o r t fo l i o b y A d a m C h a m y

How can designers adaptively reuse existing urban forms to foster a new sense of place?

My current practice has led me to explore adaptive reuse, urban design, and its applicabilit y to the urban form. I find the role of the designer in place creation to be more than just reactivating and re-imagining the landscape and built environments; designers must sense place and employ imaginative techniques to use the past to inform a new future.

Sensing Place is a compilation of a variet y of my work over my first year and a half as a graduate student pursuing joint degrees in architecture and communit y planning from a background in international studies. My work explores ways of creating place, from an urban design project in a small Mar yland communit y creation of a communit y center in a sprawling suburb.

Travels to Rome and analysis of adaptive reuse precedents inform my conception of how urban environments and buildings change over time and can be adapted to future uses. This por tfolio also includes a glimpse into my fine ar ts practice that focuses on assemblage, painting, and travel photography.

Adam Chamy B.A. International Affairs, Concentrations International Development + European Studies Minors, Art and Art History + Socio-cultural Anthropology The George Washington University Washington, DC M.Arch + MCP (current): Architecture + Community Planning University of Maryland- College Park, MD Expected Graduation: Spring 2016 Contact: achamy@umd.edu

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EVOLUTIONARY URBANISM A MASTER PLAN FOR SALISBURY, MARYLAND Salisbury, Maryland – a small city located in the Eastern part of Maryland – approached our second-year design studio looking for urban design solutions to a number of issues including flooding, an isolated downtown, an underutilized post-industrial landscape, and a general lack of civic pride. My work focused on an urban design for North Prong- a postindustrial waterway – as well as the historical residential areas directly north of downtown.

The studio consisted of workshops with the community- where I helped create graphic design and branding- and gained an understanding of what community members were looking for.

It also consisted of a precedent analysis of the post-industrial revitalization of the Isle de Nantes by Alexandre Chemetoff in Nantes, France. Ultimately, I developed a master phasing approach that combined ideas drawn from both landscape urbanism and new urbanism.

Finally, the studio focused on one particular moment- the block immediately north of downtown- that would allow us to explore urbanism at a more intimate scale. Utilizing these theories, lessons from the precedent, and community feedback, I designed elements to activate the northern downtown area as well as provide solutions to flood mitigation, suggest possibilities for job creation, and inspire a new civic landscape.

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A proposed pedestrianization and infill strategy- reimagining a parking lot and underutilized streetscape as an activated pedestrian downtown avenue.

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COMMUNITY DRIVEN DESIGN Phase Zero

Planters District The design process began with a community workshop -branded by our collaborative student group as EnvisionSalisbury - that involved a meeting with stakeholders, a tour of the city, and active online engagement through a website, a blog, twitter, instagram, and facebook. In the end, this workshop along with several subsequent TIME meetings EVENT became the basis for the scope of intervention and design 10:00-10:30 WELCOME proposals.

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INTRODUCTION TOURS LUNCH ACTIVITY 1: 1:30-2:30Photograph montage of community POST YOUR POINT OF VIEW members taken ACTIVITY 2: from a photo booth 2:30-3:30 ENVISION SALISBURY with feedback from stakeholders 3:30-4:30on what ENVISIONING THE NEXT they wanted to STEPS see in their

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1000 1400 200 600 Emergence: Wetland Urbanism describes a first phase of urban design in which Boardwalks selected areas of the post industrial connecting citizens to waterfront200 waterway of North Prong is redeveloped into a wetland to mitigate the flooding that occurs downtown and new residential and refurbished industrial buildings to attract residence and downtown development. I also purposed traffic calming measures 600 of a major road- Route 50- to help bridge New Park reflecting downtown to the industrial and residential Agro-industrial of regions to the north.

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My approach focuses upon the goals of fostering walkability and productive landscapes that activate urbanism while increasing sustainability and sense of place.

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Expansion of mixed use buildings into the “Farmer’s and 1800 Planter’s district that emphasizes the agro-industrial heritage of Salisbury

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Placemaking: Farmers and Planters is phase two of my master plan. It takes the infrastructural and changes 200 proposed in phase one- creation of green spaces and wetlands, funding for rehabilitation of historic buildings, and traffic calming- and begins to purpose interventions that activate a sense of place. The lynchpin of the new neighborhood- called Farmer’s New Boardwalk District connecting residence and and Planter’s north of Downtown is the relationship to 600 commerce to the park and the existing agro-industrial heritage of the place. The wetland existing “Farmer’s and Planter’s” historical feed store would be retained, along with water towers and some light industry. Layered with these structures would be new housing, public spaces, and commerce to activate 1000 the site.

Left:: Master Plan for Phase Two New Vocational school devoted to food, agriculture, and tourism 1400 attracting startups to Salisbury

Expansion of mixed use buildings into the “Farmer’s and 1800 Planter’s district that emphasizes the agro-industrial heritage of Salisbury

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Right Above: Continued Traffic Calming for Route 50

Expansion of Farmer’s and Planter’s district North to link to1400 wetlands and vocational school

The aerial shows continued enhancements to Phase One including a more mature street canopy, a foraging park, and a mixed use development targeted towards seniors. All design elements including the proposition for edible trees- begins to augment the agricultural 1800 heritage of the place.

Right Below: North Prong Evolution Along the river in North Prong, a historical building has been transformed into a vocational school2200 attracting more interest and usability to the area.

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New Civic Spaces, Bringing People Across Route 50

Pedestrianization of Church Street - allowing for new buildings, sidewalks, and bikelanes Traffic Calming by adding bike lanes, on street parking, and changing pavement at key crossings

New Gateway Buildings Stitching Downtown to the rest of Salisbury

PLACEMAKING: FARMERS+PLANTERS DISTRICT Phase Two Below: Land Use for Farmer’s + Planters District

Residential: 253,800 sq. ft.

Places for Baby Boomers; Families Young Adults

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30,000 sq. ft of food storage for farmer’s market 55,000 sq. Edible Park with walking paths Adapting Historic Water Tower into Park Monument Highlighting connection to Farmers and Planters

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Connecting New Town to Downtown Commercial Mixed Use Residential Institutional

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With the existing roadway narrowed, the parcel of land the historic John B. Parson’s assisted living facility is upon suddenly has the ability to be further developed and activated.

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PLACEMAKING: FARMERS+PLANTERS DISTRICT Phase Two Below: A Boulevard for Salisbury

Below: A Multi-generational Public Space

A section through the narrowed Route 50 shows the main artery of the city transformed from unfriendly highway to grand boulevard.

A new apartment building sits adjacent to a new public plaza, a historic assisted living facility. Nearby, the new vocational school brings young adults to the site- bringing commerce, liveliness, and energy to the space

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The aerial reveals the mixed use plaza and public space. The two new buildings targeting baby boomers frame a public plaza and park while the existing historical home for the elderly in the rear. Beyond an existing water tower that serves as an iconic monument to the industrial heritage of the place.

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The final phase envisions proposes the activation of Mill street and the waterfront through the expansion of buildings along the waters edge.

This new Boardwalk district proposes using the existing boardwalks as pedestrian walkways to small businesses and live/work spaces. The small bungalows would serve as entrepreneurial ventures connected to the nearby rehabilitated historical buildings and a vocational school.

It also proposes a few new infill buildings that would activate the southern edge of the park and entrance into the city- activating the wetland park.

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The result would further and strenghten the goals of the earlier phases of connecting existing residential neighborhoods by bike and foot, activating the water as a recreational space, and linking the downtown to the waterfront and neighborhoods to the north.

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Low grasses, water tolerant trees, and built up soil act as buffer between buildings and water

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Marshy areas absorb floodwaters and harbor birds, amphibians, and wildlife

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Into the Avant-Garde The Alma Thomas Center for Contemporary Arts

Alma Thomas was an avante-garde artist known for her fragmented forms and colorful paintings. She not only challenged the art world with her unique geometric style but also the field of art as an African American woman. The Alma Thomas Center for Contemporary Arts is conceived of as a new contemporary arts center that celebrates her life and reflects the ideals that guided her work. The building is set in an urban infill site on the bustling 14th Street corridor in Washington, D.C. This project, inspired by the simplified yet fragmented geometric shapes found in her paintings, is an attempt to push the boundaries of my own conception of architecture. The result is a mysterious building with an abstract iconic form that would challenge the classicism of the city of Washington as Alma Thomas challenged the standards of art during her own time. I also focused on the experience of promenade upon entering this building, where the very process of walking into the entrance of the grand hall becomes an act of studying the building’s material and form. In this way, I sought to make visitors’ experience of the building—with its unusual form and spaces—an act of art itself.

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A view of the interior rooms and their possible activation as gallery spaces.

INSPIRATION+PLAN Below Left | GRASSY MELODIC CHANT by Alma Thomas

One of many inspirational works by Alma Thomas that guided my design decisions.

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I explored a number of forms inspired by the geometries of Alma Thomas.

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Below | Diagrammatic Studies

A simple parti helps orient and simplify the unique materiality of the internal space.

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The lower floor serves as an open exihibit space.

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A long promenade along the platform allows visitors to view the form as they enter the space. The flat north wall contrasts with the curving wall and serves as possible space for a stage or events while the west hosts flexible sliding doorways that open to a shaded patio.

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PUBLICFACE Left Page | Night Perspective Right Page | Process sketches During the 1960s, the neighborhood housing the Alma Thomas Center for the Arts was known for its auto showrooms. This design re-imagines the idea of exhibition with the large glazed windows showcasing the fragmented form of the grand hall rather than a classic car.

INSPIRATIONSPACE Right Page | Interior Perspective of the Grand Hall

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ARCHITECTURE + PLACE The Landover Hills Community Commons

Landover Hills, Maryland, a small suburban community near Washington, D.C., approached the first-year design studio seeking a vision for a future community center. Informed by research and community engagement, this proposal seeks not just to provide a space for community activities but to create a vehicle for place-making that encourages a more robust civic life, engages the existing ecologically rich hillside site, and provides opportunities for multi-generational learning.

The social hub of the community center is focused on a grand double-height “community living room,” lobby, and café that look out onto an expansive rooftop “back yard” equipped with outdoor fitness facilities, vegetable gardens, and informal gathering spaces providing a secure environment that can be closed or open as needed.

The overall plan suggests a series of dynamic internal spaces that connect to contrasting program areas. For example, the senior center connects to the early childhood area via a reading nook; the multipurpose area can open up to the community backyard; and an informal lobby outside the gym becomes an opportune area for a teen gathering space. In this way, residents of all ages who visit the center for varying purposes have opportunities to interact. Moreover, the spaces become more customizable for special events and future uses.

RETHINKINGSITE The Landover HIlls Community Commons provides the opportunity to better connect a community, give access to green space, and balance car-centric access in the shortterm to predicted pedestrian access with the creation of a future light rail line.

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The site plan for the community center proposes the creation of a road over current surface parking to serve as a grand avenue linking the center to a busy retail and transit corridor, an elementary school, a future light rail station, as well as the wider metropolitan region.

A secondary approach along the northeast road brings visitors from neighboring homes, churches, and a school through playgrounds, a water feature, and gazebo along inhabitable steps to the main entrance.

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This approach activates the existing dramatic topography, balancing ecologic preservation with a series of pedestrian trails to knit together the community.

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INFORMEDDESIGN Precedent Study:

Glenn Eagles Community Center by Patkau Architects

Patkau Architects took a simple parti and formed a unique community center that nested with a complex landscape. Analysis of their Glenn Eagles Community Center helped inform the plan and conceptual spatial arrangements of the site of the Landover Hills Community Commons as well as the approach to plan (right).

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ECOCOMMUNITY My proposal for the Landover Hills Community Commons does not only provide a place for cultivating civic life but also a place to learn about environmental responsibility. A large portion of the ecologically rich site was left untouched to allow the existing trees to remain. Likewise, the series of inhabitable green roofs and internal garden spaces provide an environmentally sustainable roofing and insulation scheme. A greenhouse on the west facade provides a warm porch and learning space in the winter while the retractable glass makes the space usable in the summer. A series of louvers on the south and northwest facades block direct solar radiation.

Lastly, the largest roof garden over the gym serves as a community backyard, providing a large open space for events and sports practice while protecting ecologically rich areas of the site that otherwise would have to be developed for athletic fields. Furthermore, the roof gardens each can be closed at nightfall without the need for fencing, balancing the community’s request for security with a cohesive design.

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Regener ativeDesign Fostering A Sustainable Place-Based Workspace

Regenerative Urban Ecology: Fostering a Place-based Workplace was a collaborative three student investigation into the relationship between history, ecology, and place.

The results- took the program of a center for environmental economics and explored sustainability beyond the intension of sound energy-consumption metrics. The site itself challenges the idea of green-field sustainable construction by placing it on an underutilized brownfield site in the heart of downtown Baltimore intervening to clean the water and foster a community space.

The program – a 15,000 square foot office and community space- teaches and explores strategies for revitalizing Baltimore and the Jones Falls watershed through green design and reuse of local Baltimore materials. The first floor is primarily public spaces – an event room, lobby, bookstore and cafÊ, outdoor plaza, and small presentation room.

The second and third floors are primarily research spaces with collaboration spaces, offices with moveable partition walls, and an event room.

Finally, the roof houses a living machine system that filters the water, an extensive green roof, and photovoltaic panels. Serving as a wayfinding device is a large masonry and glass tower houses all mechanical systems. The tower, a typology of the former industrial neighborhood, gives the ability for visitors to see the green technologies at work while creating a sense of place.

RESPONSIVESITE The project began with an extensive site analysis looking at the particular problems inherent in the place. Flooding and waste along the historic canal plague the site. Regionally, the site stood at an ecologic crossroads with the Jones Falls watershed serving as an important historic and environmental hinge to the Chesapeake watershed. The canal itself formed a natural boundary separating the business district of downtown with the more small scale development of the Little Italy neighborhood.

We met each of these problems with solutions ranging from permeable pavements from the boardwalk, to shaping the form of the building and site specific pedestrian networks to help bridge the two neighborhoods.

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Our construction sequence investigated the interplay and expression of structural form, memory, and sustainability. An exposed split beam system and use of brick heralded back to historic Baltimore, while a large curtain wall system and green inverventions made the building decidedly modern.

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SUSTAINABLEINVESTIGATIONS Passive Cooling Tower Extensive Green Roof Submerged Geothermal Loops

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EXPERIENTIALSPACES Precedent Study:

Glenn Eagles Community Center by Patkau Architects

Patkau Architects took a simple parti and formed a unique community center that nested with a complex landscape. Analysis of their Glenn Eagles Community Center helped inform the plan and conceptual spatial arrangements of the site of the Landover Hills Community Commons as well as the approach to plan (right).

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1. Large Event Room 2. Moveable Wall 3. Kitchenette 4. W/C 5. Changing Room/ Shower 6. Recylcing 7. Bike Storage 8. Reception/ Entry 9. Cafe Area and Reading Lounge/Bookstore 10. Juice/Snack bar 11. Kitchen 12. Water Tanks 13. Small Presentation Room.

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IncrementalDESIGN

Studies in Adaptive Reuse, Time, and Incremental Change Sensing place is ultimately rooted in understanding context and time. The following pages are a series of studies of adaptive reuse, time, and incremental change in regards to urbanism and architecture.

First are collages from a seminar studying theories and practical application of adaptive reuse on the building and city scale,. The collages helped to provide a deeper understanding of the architectural interventions undertaken which in turn helped inform a series of essays related to adaptivity and historic preservation. A short workshop with German architects ReFunc expressed the idea of adaptation in furniture design where we transformed unused classroom desks into rocking chairs.

Also included is a precedent study exploring the Ile de Nantes. The Ile de Nantes, an island in the city of Nantes, France, was recently revitalized through a process of planning called relational planning - pioneered by landscape architect and urbanist Alexander Chemetoff. His “plan guides” for the Ile de Nantes were intimately rooted in incremental change, layering history and context of the place, and community outreach.

Third are studies undertaken during a sketchbook course in Italy during my first year provided a background in both traditional architecture and a methods in analyizing historic structures and urban spaces.

Lastly is a synthesis plan for Lyttonsville, Maryland proposing an incremental urban design approach that highlights the heritage of the area with the need for civic space in a low income, environmentally blighted residential and industrial neighborhood that would soon be receiving a new light rail line.

Left | Collage Study “Fondazione Querini Stampalia” by Carlo Scarpa Mixed Media on Paper 18 x 24

Adaptive Reuse and Preservation at all Scales Urban Space, Buildings, and Furniture Design Left | Cusco, Pero

Collage: 24 x 18 Sketch Diagram: Adaption of the Incan ceremonial space of “Huacapayta� to the Spanish colonial center of the Plaza de Armas and surrounding parvis squares .

Below | Desk Rocking Chair,

Furniture design project converting a discarded desk into a rocking chair.

Colonial Adaptation Original Incan Condition

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Intervetions

Above | Water Pumping House Plant by Wenk und Wiese

Collage: 24 x 18 Sketch Diagram: Adaption of a Water Pumping Station into a Residence and Studio

ﾃ四e de Nantes: Studies in Adapting the Urban Form ILE DE NANTES: Relational Planning Ile de Nantes: Site Catalog Adam Chamy ARCH407- Vandergoot

Block Analysis BLOCK ANALYSIS

Shipyards Park SHIPYARDS PARK

Quai de Antiles QUAI DES ANTILLES

300m

Les Fonderies LES FONDERIES

ACTIVE INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS Sites Untouched by Development Active Industrial

Green Spaces

BLOCK SIZES

City Blocks

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Alexander Chemetof’s relational planning technique keeps the history of the city alive by retention of historical buildings, the new historical infrastructure made by the industrial era, and block sizes while weaving new life into the city through greenspaces and bikelines. The industrial infrastructure and relationship to the water- the generators of the city - are highlighted in his redevelopment plan.

Green Space reducing percieved block size

Bike Lanes Redefining Blocks

Retention of street

Infrastructure and Industry Active Industry + Waterways + Railways

Generators of Form

Existent Industy and Railways

Topography, Water, and Rail

SHIPYARDS PARK: From Industrial Yard to Community Space

From Shipyard to Public Park:

Parking & + Informal Pathways Parking Informal Pathways March 2005 March 2005

Ile de Nantes: Diagramatic Study Adam Chamy ARCH407- Vandergoot

Process: Formalization & Infill Adaptation of Form to Park May 2011 March May 2011

Community Space New Community Buildings and Parks September March May 2012 2012

IncrementalUrbanism

Weaving Civic Space within the Postindustrial Infrastructural Landscapes A one semester project in a site analysis course focused on Lyttonsville, MD - an under served residential and industrial area that would soon receive a new light rail stop.

The following is a synthesis diagram (left page) and a series of interventions (right page) that would begin to environmentally mitigate the waste in the area and activate the civic space and the industrial heritage of the area.

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Select work from art practice

Salim, Acrylic on Found Wood, 65in. x 30in.

Exhibited:“Of Refuge, Of Home,” Jerusalem Fund, Washingotn, DC

Potomak,

Digital Collage, 11x17 in.

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Hampshire,

Mixed Media (Acrylic, License Plate, Paper, and Earing on Canvas), 24in. x 48in.

Lost Gaze,

Watercolor, Ink on Paper, 24in. x 18in.

Cranes, Mixed Media on Found Mirror, 25in. x 45in.

Exhibited:“Palestine: Memories, Dreams, Perseverance�

Northeast Gallery, United Nations

Numbered, Mixed Media (Coffee, Watercolor, Graphite)

on Paper 18 x 24

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Mildred Daniel, Acrylic on Canvas & Found Chair, 18 x 40 Exhibit:“Of Refuge, Of Home” Jerusalem Fund

Hands, Mixed Media on Paper, 12in. x 9n.

Private Collection

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Adam Chamy