Eleven Park Concept

Eleven Park Concept Adam Freeby

Program Overview

The program includes much more than just a stadium including spaces and facilities that would promote activity on the site year round and would begin to transform an underdeveloped area of Indianapolis into the next up and coming neighborhood. The program includes a variety of mixed-use buildings that bring residential, office and retail spaces to the site including hotel and conference space to aid and support existing facilities in Indianapolis.

Stadium + Adjacent Structures Hotel + Conference Center Mixed-Use 1 (Commercial + Office Space) Mixed-Use 2 (Commercial + Residential) Mixed-Use 3 (Commercial + Residential + Office Space)

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Relating to the City The stadium is situated looking back to the center of Indianapolis, specifically, Monument Circle. This is a trend that is repeated throughout the sporting facilities in Indianapolis, both Lucas Oil Stadium and Victory Park frame the skyline of Indianapolis from their respective locations.

The project’s site was selected within proximity of the other aforementioned venues in Indianapolis.

This proximity would lead to the creation of a sports and entertainment district. This district would have the capacity to allow Indianapolis to host large scale events like the Super Bowl or March Madness.

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Urban Design Principle: Pedestrian First

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The strategy for creating a Pedestrian First place was the removal of all vehicular traffic from the interior of the site and relocating it to the perimeter. This allows pedestrians and bikers alike free range of movement within the site.

The next step in providing a place for pedestrians was creating spaces in and around the buildings on the site for gathering. From pocket-type parks to large plaza spaces, each space provides a unique experience for the people using the site.

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Public Gathering Space

Indianapolis Cultural Trail

Main Auto Corridor

Secondary Auto Corridor

Primary Pedestrian Paths

Special Event Pedestrian Paths

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Urban Design Principle: Density The density of a site can change the experiences users have on site. In this case, the density for the project looks to similarly align to the density seen in downtown Indianapolis. By aligning to this density, the feeling a user might experience in the center of town would be similar to what they would feel on site. In fact the density coupled with the lower height of the structures creates a more user friendly environment.

Understanding the surrounding context and the density seen there is also key to improving the environment on site. A poor example of density is Lucas Oil Stadium, with only a parking lot adjacent to the structure, the scale is out of proportion and towers over the occupants of the site.

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On Site Density

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Lucas Oil Stadium

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Urban Design Principle: Transit Supportive

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With a focus on pedestrian first, it is important to support that idea with enough options to get to the site that cars become the secondary mode of transportation to and from the site. This is where Indianapolis’ public transport comes into play.

Thanks to the city expanding bus lines and trail movements, the people have not had easier ways to get around Indianapolis. These are the developments that should be capitalized on.

As the Bus Rapid Transit system begins to link the edges of Indianapolis’ urban areas, the Cultural Trail has created a network of bike and pedestrian friendly paths that are linking inner city neighborhoods.

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Indianapolis Cultural Trail On Site Parking Garage On Site Yellow BRT Bus Stops

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With the extension of the trail, new connections can be made to the southwest side of downtown Indianapolis with the chance to begin to expand further down the Kentucky Ave spoke or move into West Indianapolis, connecting to the former GM stamping plant site and the White River Greenway.

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The Indianapolis Cultural Trail started as a way to connect six cultural neighborhoods through a trail for both pedestrians and bicycles. The trail also now doubles as a chance for people to move around the city on dedicated bike lanes.

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IndyGo Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Lines

The new IndyGo BRT lines are beginning to connect the city of Indianapolis in ways that they have not before. Offering quick access to a much broader area than the current bus system, the BRT promotes public transport throughout downtown Indianapolis and surrounding neighborhoods.

The plan taps into the bus network and helps promote the future BRT lines linking them to a dedicated line that services the major sports and entertainment venues in the downtown area. By stopping at the transit center, this line would connect to all bus lines in the city as well as other amenities like the cultural trail.

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Existing Red Line Proposed Purple Line (Service to begin in 2022) Proposed Blue Line (Service to begin in 2025) Project Proposed Yellow Line

Urban Design Principle: Transit Supportive

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Urban Design Principle: Natural Systems

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Natural systems in urban environments create a more dynamic space for the users when they interact with their surroundings. Including a variety of these spaces and integrating them into the site rather along with landscaping in the architecture allows a cohesive experience from place to place on site.

Included in these natural systems are a two pocket-type and two large scale parks, the daylighting of Pogue’s Run and a variety of site landscaping that can be found throughout the site.

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Parks Pogue’s Run Site Landscape

Parks From the two pocket-style parks along the south edge of the site, one main park area to the south of the stadium and the riverfront park to the west of the site, and Canal Walk along Pogue’s Run, there is a dramatic increase to public green space in this part of the city. These parks offer a variety of spaces for the people of Indianapolis to enjoy.

With the creation of these parks a new urban amenity is provided to a community that would typically not be offered to. With the different sizes and even shapes of these parks each one offers something different to the other. The parks also are linked together through Pogue’s Run, connecting these parks and promoting a continuity of natural systems throughout the site rather than at particular points.

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Site Landscape The site landscaping helps combine and interconnect the parks and the daylighting of Pogue’s Run. The site landscaping would include the addition of new trees along the eastern approach, the residential corridors and along Pogue’s Run. All of the plantings will be native trees, and include a variety of shrubs and perennials to create habitats for birds and insects.

The site uses permeable paving in all pedestrian areas allowing for rain water to be collected on in cisterns for use on site or transferred into Pogue’s Run to be deposited back into the White River. The overall use of natural systems gives access to amenities that a typical urban environment lacks.

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Pogue’s Run When looking to bring in more natural elements into the site, daylighting Pogue’s Run became an important part of that process. Currently Pogue’s Run is buried under a large part of downtown Indianapolis and deposits water into the White River just southwest of the site.

The project takes Pogue’s Run and daylights it on the site, creating a corridor planted with wetland vegetation, attracting birds and insects and providing a visible natural system that can be beneficial to residents and visitors experiencing the site. The Canal Walk runs parallel to the Cultural Trail as it moves through the site. As a natural system the creek also is able to collect on site rain water and take it just down stream to the White River.

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Site Entry Points When looking at the larger site, it was an important point to understand the entry points onto the site and how the architecture can be manipulated and changed to promote ease of access to the site and help reinforce both visual and architectural connections.

with a much more direct route into the stadium, while the view heading into the stadium is being framed by the roof. On the west side the architecture has been cut into, providing direct access via paths into the center of the site and the park that sits to the south of the stadium.

On the east approach the buildings are intentionally spaced to provide a wide boulevard with pathways that helps create a strong connection between the adjacent site and the main site. This also provides a processional route for fans attending games that moves through large plaza spaces on a persons way to the stadium. The same plaza space can be seen at the northeast entry to the site

The entries into the stadium are also a focus as most enter into views of the interior playing field or feed into various commercial spaces built into the side of the stadium. These commercial spaces also have direct access to the stadium circulation acting as secondary entry points.

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Stadium - Site Relationships The site links itself to Lucas Oil Stadium and its parking lot to the east and the White River to the West. The site situated between Lucas Oil and the new stadium helps reinforce the processional path to the stadium from the downtown area and Lucas Oil Stadium’s parking lot.

The stadium opens up to the northeast, welcoming people from downtown Indianapolis to the site, this entry to the stadium is further reinforced by a large plaza just outside of the stadium creating clear sight lines into and out of the stadium.

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Interior Stadium Shots

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Interior Stadium Shots

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Stadium - Site Relationships The relationship between the stadium itself and the site is one a complex one that has obvious similarities but also some obvious differences. Starting with the materiality, the stadium relates back to the site at its base with a brick two story space, mimicking the on-site buildings brick material. As you move up the building, the differences begin to show more clearly. From the top of the brick perimeter wall the material and form shift from a relatable, simple palette to something futuristic and complex. The material changes going from brick and concrete to steel and stretched fabric that would guide the transition to a different style building from the context.

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Structure Study The structure of the stadium is based on a concrete slab foundation that starts at field level. From there steel columns and beams make up the lower seating bowl and are tied into the concrete slab. These steel structures are the foundation for the precast concrete forms that the seats will be attached to.

Concrete pilings help form the structure to support the exterior walls and roof beyond the steel frame. These piles run from below the slab all the way to the base of the steel tubes for the roof structure. Connected to these piles is a network of concrete beams at each floor, supporting the roof and the floor loads. The floors are pour-in-place concrete that are reinforced and connected to the beams and columns.

Looking at the roof, the primary truss system is a large steel truss that are connected to two separate steel beams via a node connection point. In between these primary trusses are smaller secondary trusses that link to the primaries strengthening the connection. On top of the steel truss system sits the polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE roof fabric.

Welded Connection

8” Steel Tube Truss 12” Steel Tube Truss Welded Connection

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16” Steel Tube Beam

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Game Day Activation

Starting with the Exterior this is where the build up to a match happens, friends and families meet up and By isolating a section of the stadium it becomes clear begin their journey to the stadium. This journey takes where and how the activity takes place in the stadium them to the various plazas with use of the normal during a game day. There is a buzz and activity in circulation paths outside of the stadium and through a all areas both in and around the stadium This activity heightened amount of activity because of temporary can be broken down into 3 areas around the site, vendors and amenities to serve the game day crowd.

Next is the Interstitial space as a user moves towards Exterior, Interstitial and Interior.

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the restaurants and shops embedded into the stadium.

These facilities also see an increased level of activity as people are dining and shopping throughout the day during the buildup of the game. And finally the Interior space of the stadium, this section is at its peak traffic with people moving throughout the stadium getting to and from seats and the many amenities in the stadium.

Non-Game Day Activation

After understanding what a game day looks like on the site, one can begin to understand the similarities and differences to the non-game day atmosphere.

The three layers still see activity but the importance of which one changes. With the Exterior, there is an obvious amount of activity missing, although the

large game day crowd is missing, the variety of park space, pedestrian paths and the Cultural Trail allow for pedestrians to mill about the site. At the Interstitial level, this is where most of the activity is taking place on non-game days, people are still visiting these shops and restaurants throughout the year thanks to its convenience for the people who live and work in the area. Finally, at the Interior level, this is the largest change of activity when compared to a game day.

The facility for the most part is empty, but the main concourse begins to act as a secondary circulation path in which people can use throughout the year as a public park. This gives the community access to the venue year round letting it become apart of the community instead of a fortress.

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