Urban Design course.

Fall 2018 Transit Development Studio w/ Taryn Sabia

This urban studio focused on the idea of Transit ORiented DEvelopment, building new urban, mixed use spaces around new transit hubs/stations.

This project involved a huge amount of research and information graphics. You will notice that maps constitute the vast majority of material for this studio.

We each assigned an area in Tampa, and had to research it extensively before we began to design anything. The involved heat maps, informational maps on things like demographics and land value, and numerous site visits to photograph and understand the location and its history.

Mine is in Sulphur Springs, near 275 and the iconic abandoned water tower.

Initial Mapping & Expansion

This initial drawing was the foundation for the analysis maps of the area I was assigned for this project.

It was scaned, toned, and used as the basis for all of the following heat maps, meant to analyze traffic, activity, and other relevant information about the area.

Basic Map

Notable Locations

Activity: Day

Activity:Night

Traffic/Traffic Barriers

All Information

Site Analysis & Further Mapping

Additional maps, site visits, and photography all provided further insight in the the are, refining my ideas of what needed to be done to realize the goals of the project.

Sulphur Springs: Figure Ground

Sulphur Springs: Analytic Map

Focused Information Mapping Further mapping and analysis focused on the specific neihborhood/area that was to be developed.

All pertinent information, from tree coverage to demographics to future land use, were considered, informing the subsequent planning for the project.

This offered a great deal of insight in to the area, and provided many ideas as to what could be improved, how the area functioned as it was, how it related to the rest of the city, and so forth.

The larger context can be easy to overlook even in the most basic sense, to say nothing of a deep dive in to the various layers of said context and what can be found in them.

Photographic Analysis I made several trips to the area to see things first hand, and take some photos of notable landmarks, such as the water tower and Sulphur Springs theater.

While much of what existed there in the 1930’s is now gone, the remaining traces of it could play a notable role in future revitalization and redevelopment of the area.

Final Urban Development

Intervention Sketching These figure ground sketches were the next step in envisioning how a new urban, mixed use development might manifest itself in Sulphur Springs.

Though largely basic, this was the first step in arranging greenspace, housing blocks, street grid, and other vital features.

Organic Experience This diagram spoke to a more metabolic, perceptual experiene. One not of form, but motion and impression, giving an idea of how the area felt as things perceptually pushed and pulled relative to motion, line of sight, and overall impression.

Development Sketching & Sections.

A number of sketches were done to further develop the transit station, the mixed use development, street grids, movement analysis, and a number of specific, individual spaces that could define the new Sulphur Springs T.O.D. The following pages are street sections, starting with the location of the transit station as it is now and progressing to its eventual development, as well as a street room analysis of one a street further in to the development.

Final Site Plan The final site plan envisions the footprint, grid, spaces, and all other relevant aspects of the new Sulphur Springs development.

With the transit hub in the lover left, near the edge of the greenspace everything else is built out from that.

Site Section This site section image combines massing, abstracted sections with hand sketches to highlight various areas of importance in the development.

Presented here in a smaller form to give an overview, the next few pages display it in segments to allow the reader to discern the smaller details of the drawings.

Conceptual Street Model Following the site section is a conceptual, gestural street model to present a street room condition from the commerce area of the new urban development, emphasising the built-in seating elements amidst the pedestriant-centric street room