Parker VanMeter Stewart — Proposal for the 2017 Linda & Turan Duda Traveling Fellowship
BUOYANCY TROUBLED WATERS The god am I, whose yellow water flows Around these fields, and fattens as it goes Tiber my name – among the rolling floods. Renowned on earth, esteemed among the gods. This is my certain seat. In times to come, My waves shall wash the walls of mighty Rome! —Virgil, 29-19BCE1
Life and society depend on water. Water is and continues to be the foundation of all social development.2 Modern urbanisms, however, fail to appreciate how essential (and delicate) the connection between water and civilization is. Urbanity has domesticated shorelines, tamed rivers, but in the end, water does as it pleases. Relations between water and cities are historically fragile as cities (especially new development in Asia) continually display a form of habituation that disregards water dynamics. Water has disappeared from the urban realm, visually and as a collective conscious of urbanities. Water has become an absent presence in the modern city, an engineering trick – out of sight, and, consequently, out of mind. Floods and civilizations have always been companions. The very factors that make the areas of MEGA-cities in southeast Asia attractive for settlement are the same ones that make them vulnerable to devastation. For the United States, the New Orleans Deltaic Region is ground zero for all things disasters – hurricanes, oil spills, flooding rivers, sinking lands, disappearing wetlands, rising seas.3 In North Carolina, impoverished towns like Princeville are washed out every other decade.4 However, it is important that New Orleans and Princeville are not alone. Water is a global issue.
TREADING WATER Waterfronts, buoyant or saturated, are a chance to explore what public means in Southeast Asia’s urbanisms where new notions of realism, collective identity, and public discontent are resulting in unprecedented events. Flooded rivers and sea level rise provide an opportunity for the addition of public spaces in cities. Southeast Asia’s dense MEGA-cities and MEGA-slums repeatedly allow development that covers natural waters to also wash away needed public space and ignore social unrest. Ironically, to combat sea level rise and flooding we must, ourselves, bring water back into the city. In so doing, we often reintroduce public space into the capitalistic fabric of the city. These new water urbanisms can receive emerging (both known and yet unknown) public activities
that would otherwise be obstructed by the presence of Southeast Asia’s centralizing bureaucracy and the irresistible but fatal spread of temples of commerce along urban waterfronts. New waves of public space and improved urbanisms along the Chao Phraya, Ganges, and Mekong watersheds are rising above the floods. Weaving (natural) water and urban structures washes the urban reality with social benefits. Is it time to abandon the coastline? Is it too late for an SOS from our sinking cities? Ten of the world’s fifteen largest cities are in low lying coastal fringes vulnerable to rising sea levels and coastal surges.5 The lifeline that we must throw is to rethink our understanding of the complicated ground we occupy – a ground we cannot continue to dominate with hardline and static interventions, but rather a ground we should begin to design with adaptive and dynamic negotiations. As water submerges the city, what is most interesting is what floats to the top – a lack of social services and political unrest. Cities themselves are nothing but a continuous process of capitalistic floods that bring demolition and construction where social opportunities for renewal are found. Rising currents, however, threaten to topple the fragility of urbanities that are already treading water and drowning in social unrest. Therefore, architecture cannot continue cautiously answering the same questions, reformulated over and over each flood – this is precisely where architecture’s potential lies. Architecture is at the edge of the water and we can see the answer lying at the bottom – yet, architecture timidly dips its toes in. We must push architecture into the deep.
PROPOSITION I propose to study the architecture and water urbanisms of southeast Asia, a vast geographical area where scale is evidently one of the major challenges, particularly given the last decades of enormous demographic and economic growth. Southeast Asia is home to MEGA-cities in MEGA-deltas that are (literally) on the verge of drowning in water. Investigating the emerging wave of water urbanism practices, and bringing them together with the millennia old traditions of water urbanism in Asia, is the main motivation for this travel study. Three watersheds; the Chao Phraya, the Ganges, and the Mekong, will serve as the framework of my travel. Each of the proposed waterways that I will float down simultaneously represents profits, power, and danger, yet are the centers of public life. In these three watersheds, I will
visit and document projects realized and proposed, areas which have influenced new water urbanisms, and related institutions and schools. I will conduct interviews with made contacts and, if possible, with the architects of proposed projects. I will also choose one project in each watershed – to be determined by accessibility – to document in detail through photography and drawing perspectives, plans, sections, and user interviews. While my focus will be on those three watersheds, others will get necessarily drawn into my investigation. The Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul and Singapore’s Bishan park, for example, have shifted thinking towards an amphibious mindset, conceded that water could flow into the fabric of the city itself (enriching urban reality), and are frequently associated with the three watersheds. Upon return, I will prepare a print publication as well as a travel portfolio in addition to a public lecture at the College of Design. This travel study proposal comes after several semesters of related academic research. In the Spring of 2015, Prof. Burak Erdim’s Rebel Cities course introduced themes in the exchange of architecture cultures which I have used as a framework. While studying abroad in Prague, Prof. Igor Kovacevic and I worked with notions of public space along the river Vtlava. In the fall of 2016, Prof. David Hill and Matthew Griffith’s studio in Manteo, N.C. introduced buoyant architectures in saturated floodplains to me in depth. And, in Prof. Kristen Scaffer’s Comparative Histories course this semester, I have been performing research and developing comparisons of New York and Chicago’s treatment of their urban waterscapes specifically in preparation for this proposal. I have a personal, long-term aspiration to work globally, particularly in developing countries, so this travel would precipitate an eventual career. But, my simple aspiration from this travel is to enrich myself as an architect by witnessing the work of these saturated cultures, tracing the evolution and development decisions of their urban shorelines, and experiencing these cities in an expanded way. The following map describes my suggested travel plan and is annotated with explanations of potential activities and sites in each city. 1. Aldrete, Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome, 6. 2. We think of fish as living a contained life — contained within a fishbowl, river, or sea. We forget that the world is primarily an aquatic environment. 3. Rowe, A City and its Stream, 36. 4. Princeville, N.C. has endured two 100-year floods within 17 years (Hurricane Floyd, 1999 and Hurricane Matthew, 2016). Hurricane Matthew destroyed 8 of every 10 homes in Princeville; flooding reaching as high as ten feet. 5. Bergdoll, Rising Currents, 16.
PARKER VANMETER STEWART
PRELIMINARY BUDGET Estimated Airfare Estimated Railfare Gasoline
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2 4
8
$2,248.00 $125.00 $100.00
Lodging/Daily Expenses Admissions/Tickets Health Insurance (WorldNomads) Immunizations Entry Fees Drawing Supplies Other Supplies Overseas Data
$2,357.00 $120.00 $239.00 $350.00 $60.00 $50.00 $100.00 $80.00
Contingency [15%]
$874.35
Total Minimum Expenditure
$6,703.35
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Daily Expenses Breakdown Mumbai New Delhi Allahabad Varansi Kolkata Dhaka Bangkok Chiang Mai Ayutthaya Phnom Penth Ho Chi Minh Can Tho Singapore Jakarta Seoul
Lodging $27.00 $22.00 $8.00 $10.00 $20.00 $34.00 $20.00 $15.00 $15.00 $15.00 $30.00 $20.00 $30.00 $20.00 $30.00
SATURATED DESTINATIONS
Airfare Breakdown Food, Transport, Other $35.00 $15.00 $8.00 $9.00 $15.00 $22.00 $30.00 $35.00 $25.00 $25.00 $30.00 $20.00 $60.00 $30.00 $35.00
Days 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 4 1 2 5 2 4 4 2
Total Est. $186.00 $148.00 $16.00 $38.00 $105.00 $224.00 $250.00 $200.00 $40.00 $80.00 $300.00 $80.00 $360.00 $200.00 $130.00
Total
46
$2,357.00
1_RDU - BOM (British, $750) 2_BOM - DEL (Jet, $65) 3_CCU - DAC (Jet, $100) 4_DAC - BKK (Jet, $200) 5_BKK - PNH (Malaysia, $162) 6_PNH - SGN (Malaysia, $100) 7_SGN - SIN (Malaysia, $90) 8_SIN - ICN (AirAsia, $143) 9_ICN - RDU (American, $638)
China Jakarta Nepal
Thailand
China Bhutan Myanmar Bangladesh
Thailand
Cambodia
India
Vietnam
Cambodia
Myanmar
Indonesia
Bay of Bengal
CHAO PHRAYA
GANGES
Bangkok, Thailand (days 18 - 22)
New Delhi, India (days 3 - 7)
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In 1850, 90% of Bangkok was on the water — Bangkok was the ‘Venice of the East.’ Then the city turned its back on the water. Travel to flood-prone village of Kong Sai, in the Maha Rat district of Ayutthaya (uses raised architecture techniques of the ancient Thais). These floating habitats, in the past as well as the future, shows the universality of this particular solution. Travel along Bangkok’s skytrain, skyway, and ‘sky-plazas’ — built with notion that what does not touch the ground is good, but is public space as successful?
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Travel along the Yamuna, a main tributary of the Ganges. Visit the nullahs, Delhi’s polluted water drainage network. Meet with Pankaj Vir Gupta, principal of Delhi-based Vir Mueller Architects. Prior to travel, discuss Delhi water urbanisms with Prof. Inaki Alday (UVA). Visit the Agrasenki and Baoli stepwells (water holds a privileged position).
Allahabad, India (day 8) •
Chiang Mai, Thailand (days 23- 26) Ayutthaya, Thailand (day 27)
Allahabad is an industrial town and the site of the Kumbh Meca, a festival that rotates between four cities each year. Kumbh Meca is the world’s largest single-purpose gathering of people, and the riverfront is transformed into a democratizing construction.
Varansi, India (days 9,10) •
Travel along the Ganges, visiting the bathing Banaras, Assi, & Dasawamedh Ghats and the intimate social conventions along the Ganges.
Kolkata, India (days 11 - 13) •
Kolkata is India’s most susceptible MEGAcity and its unique wetlands to the east, supposedly protected from development by law, are now largely developed.
Dhaka, Bangladesh (days 14 - 17) • • •
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Visit the Buckland Flood Protection Embankment along the Korail bastee, a slum development in the low-lying fringe. Meet with Ishita Alam Abonee, a project analyst for the World Bank, who participated in Kiernan-Timberlake’s Penn Dhaka studio. Travel to the Mohakkah slum, an area that lacks public space on its stilts (district especially struggles from political unrest, let alone the daunting constraints of its own geography). Travel to Khulana in the Savar district, where the brick industry converts Mangrove-lined shores into flood-prone industrial sites.
MEKONG
FURTHER DELTA BLUES
Phnom Penh, Cambodia (day 29)
Mumbai, India (days 1 - 3; June 1)
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Travel to the inner kahns and the Boeung Kak Lake that is being filled to create developable land. Compounding the issues of lake infilling is the lake of park space or open space to absorb rainy season waters.
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Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam (days 30-34) •
Travel to the Binh Tan district and the lagoon along the Den canal that is programmed as a free open space (a rare event in the mega-city on the mega-delta).
Travel to Mumbai’s eastern waterfront and the Bombay Docklands. Visit the Dhobi Ghat, Mumbai’s public laundry. Special attention paid to the Mithi River and marshland area to the northeast, location of Dharaui. Meet with Sanjukta Bhaduri, Director of Planning in Mumbai.
Singapore (days 37 - 40) •
Meet with Prof. Chong Keng Hua to investigate people-environment interactions especially in relation Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City. Travel to Bishan park, a removal of neighborhood separations/reintroduction of natural water and public space.
Can Tho, Vietnam (days 35,36)
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Jakarta, Indonesia (days 41 - 44)
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Travel to An Cu, a dense informal settlement within Vietnam’s liquid landscape where new typologies are hastily being constructed. Visit Phong Dien, a district that is undergoing a metamorphosis from a village (known for its orchards) to a fully-fledged town.
Seoul, Korea (days 44 - 46) •
Travel along the Cheonggyecheon River renewal. Meet with Prof. Jooeun Sung.
Design + Research
PARKER VANMETER STEWART College of Design, North Carolina State University
design + research NCSU College of Design Expansion, Raleigh NC NCSU Natural Swimming Pool & Bathhouse, Raleigh NC Ostrov Stvanice, Prague CZ RDU 2066, Morrisville NC Not to Shaddy, Manteo NC
college of design expansion arc 302, April 2015 professor Jianxin Hu Raleigh, NC 128,000 sqft + 300 parking
In a master plan study conducted for the College of Design at NC State University, the utilization of existing space was evaluated and the following deficiencies were identified: overcrowded studios, limited review space, limited storage throughout the college, and no place for student social gathering. To address these issues, a new facility is proposed in conjunction with university student housing and an addition of parking. The new facility is to be located in the existing Riddick Stadium parking lot. The program includes a College of Design expansion of studio and administrative space totaling 76,000 sqft and an addition of 52,000 sqft of student housing. Three hundred existing parking stalls are reduced in footprint and relocated into a parking structure. This unique proposal rethinks the void as an active part of the public cultural flow running north from the tunnel into campus and creates a new building typology that is functional yet openly public.
right: site plan far right: looking south from Stinson Dr towards the rails
1.SITE
2.PARKING REPLACED
3.CONTINUOUS LANDSCAPE
4.SETBACK & REGULATED
Once home to the university football stadium, the site is now occupied by a 380 stall parking lot that impedes pedestrian circulation.
Two level parking deck replaces existing surface parking and minimizes the footprint of cars.
Two levels of parking take advantage of a 15ft site differential (compared to COD ‘campus village’ and their green roof extends the COD landscape/campus village @ the same plane.
Volume created from basic program demands, university setbacks and regulations, and surrounding relative heights.
5.MAGNETS
6.CUT
8.PUSH IT, PUSH IT REAL GOOD
8.CONNECTIONS
Surrounding buildings act as magnetic fields that dynamically push and pull on the volume.
The volume is cut separating the form distinctly by programmed areas (living/work). A clear circulation pattern is delineated in between.
Dormitory volume is pushed to the southwest creating a larger ‘quad’ atmosphere between the existing and new residences.
Resulting form creates connections not barriers. The volume is raised 20ft allowing a porosity of circulation underneath (juxtaposing existing campus buildings & creating an identity/ jewel).
Paths as circulatory system Expansion as new heart
NCSU Natural Pool + Bathhouse arc 301, December 2014 professor Marshall Purnell Raleigh, NC 4000 ft2 + 8000 ft2 pool
In an effort to promote its commitment to sustainable building practices on campus, NC State University is planning the installation of a natural swimming pool and bathhouse facility on a site nearby the NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine. A man made natural swimming pool will be the first of its kind in the state of North Carolina. Pumps, chlorine, and toxic chemicals will be replaced with a specially designed regeneration zone that insures clean, clear, and pure water all the time. The standard geometric swimming pool is transformed into a bathing ‘lake.’ This concept and a strong site slope leads to the bathhouse’s embedment into its site. Inspired by Actaeon’s unsure footsteps and the ideology of therapeutic baths as an embodiment of man’s search for his place in nature and, thereby, ultimately a search for himself the bathhouse is hidden into the landscape. This earth-sheltered facility creates a strong statement from its humble and respective gesture. Its intersection of simple geometries create entrance and an interactive public space shared by two distinct user groups: clothed and unclothed. This project is a subtly ambitious, even stealthy, addition to the site.
right: site plan far right: looking back @ bathhouse; form ideation sketches; entrance; exploded isometric
US 1
1.SITE
2.SILENCE
3.PUSH
In its original state, the site is a recessed area whose southern slope and bowl shape offers natural shelter from highway noise. The original clubhouse, sited above the bowl, is removed for the new program.
Could the existing bowl shaped landscape be further carved to shelter our program and its bathers from highway noise?
Landscape is pushed back carving a larger bowl for the program to sit in.
4.CUT
5.ROOF PARK
6.CONTINUOUS LANDSCAPE
The program is molded into a bar that roughly follows parallel the existing southern slope. The bathhouse is delicately integrated into the landscape, cutting itself into the site and opening up towards downhill views of the existing pond.
The program is swept under a green roof — becoming an extension of the landscape. The roof park, or green roof, connects the existing site with the entrance of the bathhouse.
The result is an open landscape where the inside and outside meet seemlessly, where the original bowl-shape quality of the site truly defines the usage of the site.
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entrance conference room classrooms cafe assembly women’s locker men’s locker sauna pool filtration pool 22
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right: plan w/ site features far right: sections; form diagrams; natural filtration of water
ostrov stvanice arc 590, December 2015 professor igor kovacevic prague, CZ 15 hectares
Stvanice island is too unique to treat as a typical project: from a rich sequence of aborted alternatives, it now offers, in the heart of Prague, an unexpected reserve — a laboratory of failure where a forward-looking experiment can be planned. Compared to other European city-center islands, ostrov Stvanice is undeveloped, untypical, and informal in its usage. Stvanice is left as an urban void as a reaction to the Vltava floodplain. The island is ideologically subdivided into smaller plots based on public/ private relationships that stem from a professional sports arena and private tennis club. In the past twenty-five years, ostrov Stvanice has lost a professional hockey stadium, pool, and cafe to flood waters, developers, and corruption but has gained INFORMALITY: a skate park, a bar, and a pop-up cultural theatre. A hundred projects were produced in a 2011 city-sponsored national competition but the results remain stubbornly artificial and lifeless — incapable of both the raw energy of real anarchism and the potential coherence
above: floated possibilities far right: northwest isometric
of the genuinely planned. Instead, ostrov Stvanice has been floated as a potential stage for another professional sports arena, seventy room hotel with spa, aquarium (with sharks!), symphony concert hall, mixed-use skyscrapers not limited by UNESCO, and floating baths. To simply design a beautiful, determinate plan for the public space would be ill advised: what if some (or all) of its underlying assumptions don’t come to bear? The real challenge is to design a strategy for Stvanice — one so malleable that it can elegantly accommodate myriad, plausible density scenarios. Professional tennis is not suited for Stvanice as there are not enough facilities to attract the likes of superstars and creating such facilities would privatize the entire island. This project proposes a reverse effect: the removal of tennis facilities will create voids that benefit Stvanice and restore the public landscape that the stadium was built on. The main value of ostrov Stvanice is nature. This project reshapes and reclaims ostrov
Stvanice through a development scenario that creates a density of nature. A 10m x 10m grid is applied to the island as a proposal that can ‘solve’; in a flexible way the relationships between the new and the inheritance of previous commitments as the island is phased into its new density. The grid is allowed to be displaced by these previous commitments and, when removed, these commitments leave behind ‘rooms’ within nature.
One of the greatest qualities of ostrov Stvanice is its direct contact with water. By pulling traditional public open space activities to the island’s edge, an animated loop is created. No longer a treadmill with great views but with social interaction the Great Promenade becomes a continuous stretch of piazzas. The perimeter will absorb any future development, its border can morph, claiming and redefining parcels from the interior where necessary as long as it respects the 50% minimum of contiguous density to the island’s interior. This framework concentrates the users and limited financial resources of ostrov Stvanice toward its perimeter. The island’s interior is built up of organic parcels: of varying densities. Running across these parcels is a layer of varying densities of ‘forest’ that protect the delicate landscapes or rooms within, and asserts the archetype of an island: an active beachhead with wilderness beckoning beyond. The interior is thereby rendered free to house lost or forgotten fruits, to restore intimacy with the earth. The verdant heart at the center of ostrov Stvanice can offer more than a picturesque backdrop, an illusion of the natural; it will offer optimistic venues which require participants, not visitors.
right: circulations far right: applied grid + densities (entire island parceled into 10M x 10M units based on the Jeffersonian Grid/Land Ordinance of 1785)
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mature woodland
plantation dense
plantation medium
plantation thin
vegetable garden
meadow
sand
recreation
play
culture
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right: felling, felled, planted far right: public uses for private tennis courts as applied to island
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Comparable in size to existing city-center European islands Which density should Stvanice choose?
stare mesto
holesovice
woodland, dense + current
woodland, dense
right: cut & paste densities taken from municipal limits of Prague far right: applied woodland density onto island
2017
2025
2035
right: planting schedule far right: isometric perspectives w/ applied grid; island as ‘free’ from gaze of city
RDU 2066: an airport city RDU projects their conservative growth factor to be 3.12 (over 50 years)
arc 503, May 2015 collaborators (professional): Dr. Wayne Place, Curtis Fentress collaborators: marty needham, mo lin kuan
RDU will need to process 25 million or 5X current capacity within the next 50 years.
master plan: 1983 ha; prototype: 2,000,000 sqft
Our vision for RDU is of the airport city as a place to be, rather than as just one step along the way. The airport is no longer relegated to the far edges of a metropolitan area — it is instead a vital element of the polycentric metropolitan environment. The shortest path between any two points is the path to the airport and, for companies situated within the loop, the entire world is at their doorstep. Airports are metastable organisms in a permanent state of expansion, seemingly needing more and more space while each new addition introduces inequality and accelerates the redundancy of all previous entities. RDU, an ‘origin’ airport, is limited on capital investments by a disproportionate revenue from parking and concession operations. This land, however, is impossibly valuable. Airports are disadvantaged by their distances from the CBD (central business district). RDU, however, was placed 9 -15 miles central to three different CBDs as well as three leading universities. As the region grows around it, RDU will be find itself truly the center and Umstead State Park will be a ‘central park.’ Proximity to the airport and new development will be the catalyst for regional expansion.
right: land use comparisons; current aerial far right: RDU 2066 airport city
How can RDU fund improvements & capacity? By repurposing existing land holdings!
Aviation poorly organizes RDU; terminals trapped 1500 developable acres for Airport City!
The Case for Flipping the Campus Maximization of Land Holdings
right: existing site; FAA Part 77 far right: master plan/flipped master plan; FAA Part 77 & bldg heights
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Our proposal is a radical change that stems from pragmatic concerns: how can we maximize the current infrastructure and RDU campus for the future? By removing the northern runway and building a new 12,000ft runway parallel to the existing southern runway the airport platform is shrunk and placed central in the site. Terminals are removed from the center and pushed to the outsides of the aviation platform, allowing land-side to be ‘city-side’ and isolating air-side operations (and noise) in-between. Noise is decreased by the new development and the city is allowed to grow up to the front-door of the terminal. An evolution of Jefferson at UVA (library not church at head), the terminal is placed at the head of a city that originates from and will perish without connectivity and speed.
1 - church as center
1 - the airport
2 - jefferson places knowledge at center
3 - cities grow around railroads
2 - the airport city
Airport Is The New CBD Office space rentals are generally higher at airports than in central areas of the city. Given the significantly higher incomes of airline passengers (typically 3-5 times higher than national averages) and the huge volume of passengers flowing through the terminals it is not surprising that major airport retail sales per square meter average 3-4 times greater than shopping malls and downtown shops — as a result, their terminal commercial lease rates tend to be the highest in the metropolitan area. (Kasarda, 2006).
DURHAM
4 - airports separated from CBD
RDU 5 - airport city
RALEIGH
3 - the polycentric metropolitan region
Real Estate Projections/Average Lease Rates When corporate firms analyze the costs and benefits of consolidating the company’s technology and operations staff into a hub campus, one of the biggest factors is rent. That company could continue paying $98SF annually for office space in Manhattan or it could pay $26SF annually for space in a brand new facility overlooking a runway and a 20 acre lake at RDU. Metlife moved from NYC to a new 427,000 sqft Cary, NC campus in Nov 2013.
The Case for Flipping the Terminal Grand Hall Constantly in Motion Railway stations are typically more integrated into a city’s infrastructure, therefore, their passengers halls need to accommodate large numbers of people flowing freely through them. Grand stations of the 19th century were ornate expressions of confidence in progress, and, as business cards for their cities, they provide unforgettable arrival experiences. Unencumbered by horizontal sprawl, passengers depart from centralized, marquee halls. Departure is important and drives revenue (esp. for origin airports) but arrival has been overlooked as an essentially component of the airport experience. At the beginning, designers used train stations as inspiration for the airport where marshalling passengers from large, central waiting rooms was the norm. Early terminals served as points-of-sale and, consequently, the ticketing level was the airline’s marquee space. Tickets are now purchased on phones and kiosks, not desks. Isn’t time we reversed this model? Shouldn’t the airport welcome arriving passengers and visitors with a celebratory experience in a spacious, natural illuminated space on a terminal’s upper level?
right: perspectives of grand hall far right: entrance; park looking up at terminal
baltimore washington international
milwaukee international
wal-mart
Celebrating Arrival The arrival of the passenger to a community is the most significant moment in travel today. Airports are the front-door and gateway to twenty-first century metropolitan comminutes yet airports continue to send arriving passengers down to a cramped, dark space under grand but under utilized ticketing counters.
lansing international
right: comparisons of arrival; perspective RDU 2066 terminal far right : plans; sectional cuts
Airlines had significant control before deregulation. Terminals were the primary point-of-sale in the beginning and the model held through the 80s where the ticketing hall, the MARQUEE SPACE, was an airline branded interior. Baggage was the responsibility of the airport and no airline branding is placed down there. Let’s flip this.
Not to Shaddy (OBX Boatcraft Center) arc 501, December 2016 professors David Hill + Matthew Griffith manteo, north carolina 16,000 sqft
The Outer Banks Boatcraft Center is informed by two characters: SHAD and the FULL TURTLE.
Character 1: the FULL TURTLE FULL TURTLE is a FEELING. Shackleton famously employed the FULL TURTLE as shelter. Children play in air pockets under these full turtles. The FULL TURTLE is an upturned boat — an upturned boat that redefines the view UP. Our story employs the FULL TURTLE as we look UP and out.
SHAD
Character 2: SHAD Without the SHAD(fish) and the Civil War would George Washington Creef been inspired to design a boat so wide that its catch could feed a village and with sharp ends tapered like razor blades which cut the rough sea? It is no wonder that our second character, the SHAD boat, is the state boat of North Carolina (yet surprisingly little documentation.) Like Washington Creef, our story of the Outer Banks Boatcraft center is inspired by SHAD(fish).
FULL TURTLE right: characters far right: charette study model, view from corner of Ananias Dare St & Croatan St
The existing OBX Boatcraft Center is inadequate. The proposed site in downtown Manteo holds the end of the pedestrian friendly Queen Elizabeth Street (similar to Jefferson’s UVA Rotunda; boat craft replaces courthouse as the town jewel). The program for the boatcraft center places an emphasis on boat craft with separate teaching and master studios which are left unconditioned and placed above flood waters. These studios are visible from entry and the atrium that cuts through all three levels of the building. The cafe sits high alongside the multipurpose room overlooking the town and the far east shore of the island. The cafe and third level are accessible by the monumental stair that runs up alongside the building and in between its cypress skin. Multi-functional classrooms sit below the cafe and look down Ananias Dare Street.
1.SETBACK
2.PULL
Programmed volume sited according to setbacks and height limits.
Inspired by the Shad boat’s large catch the volume is pulled to create a wide middle and two narrow end conditions.
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The ‘lense’ of the exhibition looks out over Shallowbag Bay and Festival Island.
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3.BUOYANCY Volume is cut and lifted up and out of the 100yr floodplain.
4.SHAD
multipurpose
cafe
36’
exhibition
class
20’
studios
entry
4’ (fldplain)
Portal
Vertical Circulation
Studio, West
Studio, East
from Queen Elizabeth
from Ananias
from Festival Park Lense, Looking Out right: ideation sketches; looking @ lense from Shallowbag Bay; looking out lense far right: wall section cut @ lense; model in context
clockwise: study models w/ 3/8” = 1’ 0” chunk model in center far right: model in context; process drawings + sktbook excerpts; detail of chunk model @ exhibition
Parker VanMeter Stewart (919) 924-9460 pvstewar@ncsu.edu