BONNIE NETEL
bonnie.b.netel@gmail.com
CONTENTS Living Paradox_6 Harvesting the Future_10 Freedom by Design | Mrs. Bailey_16 [CINE] City_18 reViewing the Parkway_20 Visualizing the NYC Budget Process_24 Bushwick Inclusive_26 Recycling Cities_28 The Vendors Vision Program_30
TIMELINE OF WORK
Freedom by Design | Mrs. Bailey
Freedom by Design Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Completed Fall 2012
Living Paradox
ACSA Steel Competition Entry Semester Studio Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spring 2011
Reviewing the Parkway
Undergraduate Thesis Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Harvesting the Future Comprehensive Studio Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Fall 2011
[Cine] City
John Stewardson Memorial Competition Honorable Mention Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spring 2012
Visualizing the New York City Budget Process Fall 2012
Bushwick Inclusive Semester Studio Bushwick, New York Spring 2013
Recycling Cities
Atlantis Educational Program Lido, Venice, Italy June 28-July 8, 2013
The Vendors Vision Program Master’s Thesis Queens, New York 2013-2014
LIVING PARADOX ESSW AY
Revit Architecture, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite
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.
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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. Helping to integrate the facility into the urban fabric, Upper 30th Street contains retail space, a cafe, visitor’s center, and rooftop park. At the spatial intersection of the overhead residential volumes with the street level public volume is a visitation space for prisoner and civilian.
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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.
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Site Plan Developed in Revit Locating the Project at Walnut and 30th Street, Philadelphia. The mass spanning Walnut Street is the prisoner residences (shown in the orange shapes below), and the intersecting shape below (in gray) is intended for visitors. Both are always facing Center City.
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Left: View of inside one prisoner cell looking toward center city. Right: Rendered detail of facade and its relationship to the prisoner inside.
Quick study to delineate relationships between civilian and prisoner.
Harvesting the Future Rhinoceros, Revit Architecture, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite
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 in the city. 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 over the course of the semester.
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Above Left: Site forces depicting shape in addition to sun influences. (Stiudy done in Rhino). RIght: Hierarchy of structure to create exterior massing. (Completed in Revit.) Below: Site Plan
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Axonometric visualizing hyrdoponic systems on the first level, including details and renderings.
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Section through to provide details for facade and interior systems.
Freedom by Design PROJECT COMPLETED FALL 2011 AIAS Freedom by Design is the community service organization affiliated with the American Institute of Architecture Students. The Freedom by Design program at Philadelphia University began in 2007 helping those limited in mobility in the Philadelphia community. After being involved with Freedom by Design since 2007, I have risen to the position of Team Captain to lead others to design, fund and build a kitchen renovation for Mrs. Bailey, a Germantown resident of Philadelphia. Mrs. Bailey, being bound to her wheelchair, struggled with circulating her kitchen due to cracked ceramic floor tiles and inappropriate entry widths. To address these issues, my team removed the floor tile and replaced the flooring with a PERGO tongue-and-groove wood that is durable and easy for Mrs. Bailey to clean. In addition, the team replaced the island countertop to become part of a storage system with easy access drawers. Finally, we widened the entryway for Mrs. Bailey. The work was done over three build days in November. Leading a team of fifteen people to complete this project challenged my ability to communicate with a client, design for a particular need, and manage an economy of materials. Above: Sketch plan installation for interior kitchen island. Next Page: Photos of space and conditions before and after design and installation.
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[CINE]CITY Revit Architecture, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite
The current urban condition staggers between the historical origins of the city and the need to accommodate change in the future. This flux creates a tension that requires sensitivity toward the modification of the urban fabric. Linguistically, the term cinema is derived from the Greek word for motion but often now refers to a favorite past time. However, when thinking of the term architecturally, the term “cinema” describes the urban tension between past, present and future. The book Recombinant Urbanism by David Graham Shane describes this era as “cine citta,” or “the world of physical flows, of flows of people and goods on rail, road, and in the air (72). Cine Citta is wedged between the industrial era and modern reformism, hesitating to progress urban development. Therefore, [Cine]City is an exploration to utilize the Reading Viaduct at Spring Garden Street and 9th Avenue in Philadelphia as an element that weave improvement into the city. [Cine]City addresses the need to revitalize the Reading Viaduct to integrate green performative systems into Philadelphia’s infrastructural grid. *One of three honorable mentions after the evaluation of 33 applicants in the final submission round. Competition called students to design an urban cinema, park, and streetscape within 10 days without assistance.
Above: Sketch diagrams of interacting with the Reading Viaduct (represented in dashed lines). Next Page: Competition board earning honorable mention.
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reViewing the Parkway THE STORY
Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway was intended to revitalize the Philadelphia fabric by becoming a connector between Center City and Fairmount Park to provide additional green space beyond William Penn’s plan for five green parks. However, in order to become realized, the Parkway disrupted and destroyed residential neighborhoods. Intersections where the Parkway meets the Philadelphia street grid have become problematic locations for the pedestrian, cyclist, and motorist, and architecture has since receded from the Parkway to avoid confrontation of the transportation corridor. By inserting commercial catalysts at these intersections, systems of movement will merge and the edge of the Parkway will be stimulated to activate the Benjamin Franklin Parkway as a public place integrated with the urban fabric. SCHUY LK IL L
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Maintaining Connections Above: the Benjamin Franklin Parkway as connector Upper right: Philadelphia residential neighborhoods in 1875. Lower right: Present day plan, with street breaks due to BFP.
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Project implemented, shown during an event such the July 4th Welcome America Event
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Visualizing the NYC Budget Process AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite
As an initial methods course in the MS Design and Urban Ecologies program, “Visualizing the NYC Budget Process” was a quick assignment to realize a few things. First, we were given the text in regards to this process, and one learns to not only sift through the information but pull out the points that are important to know. How is this information then translatable in a way for the general public to gain access to this process? How can the knowledge and policy be shared in a more efficient manner? Next, this graphic was developed to do just that-pull out key points in the process and highlight what people have agency in those decisions. This was a collaborative project with Luisa Munera to translate the decision making process for the New York City budget to facilitate public involvement.
September: Community boards hold public hearings and release budget priorities to the Mayor and Borough Presidents By September 17: Mayor releases the Final Mayor’s Management Report By December 15: The Comptroller issues report on city finance By January: IBO releases Fiscal Outlook Report By January 16: Mayor releases Preliminary Budget for the upcoming fiscal year January 16-February 15: Community Boards evaluate evaluate preliminary budget. Send the report to the Mayor, the City Council, their Borough President and President Board January 30: Mayor releases the Preliminary Mayors Management Report By February 25: Borough Boards hold public hearings and submit proposals to Mayor and City Council By March 10: Borough Presidents send Mayor and City Council proposal By March 15: IBO issues an analysis on Preliminary Budget By March 25: City Council hold public hearings and make recommendations to Mayor By April 8: City Council hold public hearings on Preliminary Mayor’s Management Report April 26: Mayor releases Exexcutive Budget By May 6: Borough Presidents May 6- May 25: City Council holds public hearings By June 5: City negotiates and votes July 1: New Fiscal Year Begins
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Public Hearings
Community Board
Community Boards are required under the Charter to hold public hearings, at which time residents of the community may express their opinions as to the service and capital needs.
Mayor
The Mayor of the City of New York is head of the executive branch of NYC’s government.
Borough Boards + Presidents
The Office of Borough President was established with a functional administrative role derived by having a vote on the NYC Board of Estimate.
Council
It is up to this office to produce a timely analysis of both the preliminary and the executive budgets, and the assumptions and methodologies used by the mayor in making the revenue estimates that are contained in each budget.
BUSHWICK INCLUSIVE Adobe Creative Suite
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 inno- vative solutions that drive social change.
“Whether in decline, temporarily unfit for future development, vacant spaces are spaces in states of limbo between prior and future uses.” NO VACANCY http:// novacancyproject.wordpress.com/whatis-vacancy/
WHAT IS VACANCY?
Spaces and properties that are unavailable for current use due to the transience and lack of determinance of its function.
One & Two Family Buildings Multi-Family Buildings
HOW DOES THE CITY CLASSIFY SPACE? LAND-USE
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This framework is based on the belief that if a more inclusive community of stakeholders have access to socially innovative tools, resources, and networks that take into account their skills while engaging their participation, community projects will have a greater impact leading to overall systematic change instead of just local interventions. This project’s end goal is to create an innovative and sustainable social impact venture to build affordable housing alternatives. These alternatives will be fundamental in generating a variety of transformative and developmental experiences to spur economic development, educational growth, and community engagement. This proposal’s flexibility means the model can extend beyond housing to generate opportunities throughout the community, improving the overall quality of life for ALL. Collaborative with : Charles Wirene, April De Simone, Gabrielle Andersen, Charles Chawalko, Ferhat Topuz
Parking Facilities Vacant Land
Dilapidated Rented, Not Yet Occupied Sold, Not Yet Occupied
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
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Recycling Cities Adobe Creative Suite, Film, Interviewing
How can the term “embodied energy� be stretched in all its capacities in particular to the Veneto region? Embodied energy often refers to the harnessing of energy, its use for the manufacture of a product and the return. We latch onto the characterization of this term, mulling over the idea that the present ingenuity of people is a resource that needs to be further highlighted as that--energy that propels movement. Specifically, the fate of Ospedale al Mare, a derelict hospital complex off the coast of Venice, Italy’s Lido Island is currently undetermined. There is a lively community of musicians, architects, experimental gardeners, students, housewives, unemployed and migrant persons currently using the site and creating social and cultural value there every day. Many of these individuals come to the Ospedale for shelter, and the majority use it as a communal space to collectively try out new ideas, to share stories, create works of art and reimagine the present and future of Lido and greater Venice.
Matrix of images that include people interviewed to learn about Lido, the theater space, the model from recycled materials, and sociogramming workshop.
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Sociogram of identified agents in the community related to the theater, their relationships, and points of opportunity.
The Vendors Vision Program AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Quantam GIS
We do not see something unless it has been brought to our attention first. (Legal) street food vending is limited to the standard stainless steel cart because it has to meet food handling criteria and has to be a certain size on the street. However, we only see the cart. We don’t see that a vendor will be fined if they have stepped away for a moment to use the restroom. We, as passerby, don’t see at first glance that a vendor can be fined $1000 for being within ten feet of a crosswalk. Privatization, commodification and securitization are threatening our cities’ public space and people’s ability to appropriate such spaces. In addition to regulatory enforcement of the built environment, these forces directly impact vendors that sell food on the street. Furthermore, 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. In partnership with Vamos Unidos, the street food cart will be the host for an intervention that navigates complex urban ecologies in order for street food vendors to maintain their place on the street. This was a collaborative project with Jessica Kisner. What is “public” space? Showing that people are what constitute a truly public space.
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Mapping business improvement districts, commercial zoning, and proposed BIDS in Queens.
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Article 89: $1000 fine for the cart not abutting the curb
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Consumer Affairs 1996 Intra-City Agreement set to connect DOHMH & DCA
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Above: Different agencies controlling the vending process. Right: A mobile, unpermitted, “illegal” vendor Below: Regulations for a legal cart.
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Conducting workshops both in a group setting, and on the street adjacent to the cart, we learned that the umbrella was the only unregulated cart item allowed to be used for public expression. We created a manual for others to learn our process and continue the movement on the street.
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