Sean Gillespie | ARC 502 Final Project

S EA N M GILLE SPIE ARC 502 S TU DI O

Sean M Gillespie ARC 502 Comprehensive Studio Email: Phone:

smgilles@ncsu.edu 919-360-5879

Forward Justice Center for Equality Durham, NC

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Physical Context :

Sir David Adjaye

“...We need to investigate a new kind of density, a social and cultural density rather than one based on numerical addition.

For this reason, we should seek an architecture that forms an intimate connection between the individual and the city, an architecture that encourages people to identify with the life of the city.”

“...Architectural design needs to be clear about where people begin and end their journeys, and about whether these places need to be articulated or can remain neutral in their expression.

Movement spaces can be neutral or highly specific in character, as they take you from one place to another. Lacking the focus of destination, they can be powerful encounter spaces, powerful orientation spaces, or spaces for reading and understanding the relevant issues.”

Aerial Photography Durham, NC

4K Aerial Photographs of Raleigh and Durham 1993-2020

Retrieved from Google Earth Pro, September 2020

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Vicinity + Context 4K Aerial Photographs of Durham 1993-2020

Retrieved from Google Earth Pro, September 2020

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Throughout Durham and within The Loop, there are both open public forum spaces as well as informal open spaces that have resulted from a lack of rapid urban infill.

Instead of simply viewing open urban space as a wasted opportunity, Durham as a city has historically embraced these spaces as public grounds. Within the City of Durham Masterplan, it is stated that the city will continue to respect these types of informal open spaces and actively develop similar spaces as part of a conscious pedestrian-oriented development goal.

In response, this project provides development that should seek to replace active or passive green space that is removed for development with new green space, possibly incorporated into new programmatic goals of the project.

This proposed intentional open space must aim to meet civic needs. By providing opportunities to congregate, organize, eat lunch, picnic, or reflect on the surrounding urban landscape. while respecting the needs of the 24 hour Downtown.

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The Loop essentially acts as a large roundabout, with the City Center as an “island” in the middle.

The structure of the loop allows most traffic to bypass the City Center district altogether. However, with key east-west streets like Main Street providing two-way traffic, the Loop and the state owned parcels and plazas along it could be seen as a hopper feeding new traffic at a controlled pace into government service and open public spaces.

CCB PLAZA SmartDurham. “Current View of CCB Plaza”. 2020 Durham Arts Council Inc., https://www.smartdurham.org/ccb-plaza-1. Accessed October, 2020

CENTRAL PARK

To achieve this, the project must utilize existing pedestrian oriented opportunities throughout Downtown and along Main St. to create unique pedestrian oriented corridors and tertiary right of ways - that link open spaces, parking, businesses, public grounds and important destinations such as the church or municipal services.

SmartDurham. “Proposed Vision: Central Park Streetscape”. 2020 Durham Arts Council Inc. Accessed October, 2020

Photography: Sight Lines Existing Site

Photography produced by ARC 581 Project Prep Seminar

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FORWARD JUSTICE

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Axonometric Detail DURHAM, NC

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