RISD UDP Urban Analysis

RISD ARCHITECTURE UDP | FALL 2011

URBAN ANALYSIS

Contents Introduction

Chris Bardt

Highway Residue Density Waste/Rain/Water

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James Barnes

Coherent Connections Cathedral Square River as a Threshold

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Almin Prsic

Trash as a Thread Textiles Exposure Market House: A Center for Change

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Anne Tate

Programmatic Adjacencies ?

Visual Corridors

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Project #1: URBAN ANALYSIS: The city can be considered a giant work of architecture: spatial, morphological, ordered, materialized, functioning and valued as a cultural work. The city may also be considered analogous to a living organism, made of overlaid networks and infrastructure, organized in zones and by rules, in short a vast and complex set of interdependent systems. A city can also be understood as an ongoing process, both additive: rooms form buildings which accumulate to form blocks, in turn organizing themselves to larger systems of construction and infrastructure, and subtractive: topography, culture, climate, zoning, and other forces cut, shape, carve urban mass, leaving behind the residue of a long almost geological process. Through observation, documentation, mapping, diagramming, drawing and modeling you will study the city, in particular, the center of Providence.

Analysis, i.e. to take apart, is a process involving the creative and careful deployment of instruments, such as drawings and models. Through selectivity, point of view and operations these instruments have the capacity to reveal what normally cannot be seen or understood.

For this analysis each section will break into 4 groups of 3 to 4 students. Each group will determine one aspect of the city to study, document and analyze. Subjects such as history, infrastructure, transportation, zoning, future propositions, movement, uses of space, topography, vegetation, materiality, program use, physical form, precedents, typology, light, visual corridors, demographics, activity, memory, transformation, hydrology, geology can be considered starting points. Think of the analysis as a process developing from the subject matter itself. Decisions about how and what to draw or model should be determined by the questions being asked and the subject being studied.

Each group of each section must analyze their chosen subject/topic of the city at 6 scales. Where one starts or ends (big-to-small or small-to-big) is up to each group to determine.

The Scales: The Room The Building The Block The Neighborhood The City The Region

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Brett Dunnam, Elias Gardner, Melissa Hauser

Highway Residue

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This analysis explores the spaces that can’t be seen on a map -- underpasses -- and the way that speed affects our perception of urban space.

We began by looking at historical maps of Providence and mapping the highway onto them. this allowed us to gain an understanding of what was removed to put the highway in place and the way that it isolates areas in the city.

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Brett Dunnam, Elias Gardner, Melissa Hauser

Highway Residue

Chris Bardt

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Chris Bardt Brett Dunnam, Elias Gardner, Melissa Hauser

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The 500-block of Eddy Street became the focal point of our analysis. It is here where Providence’s I-195 relocation project creates a comprehensive array of uncultivated urban space, challenging our conceptions of a typical city block. The overpasses have generated unique urban conditions that are measurable as both a two-dimensional area and a three-dimensional volume, allowing us to imagine the land under the overpasses as a collection of usable architectural space. Indeed, one resident of Providence has established a home here, utilizing the highway infrastructure as shelter from rain, wind and sun. By removing the context of the overpasses, we can understand the role the infrastructure plays in creating such spaces, and further illuminate the neglected landscape below.

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Brett Dunnam, Elias Gardner, Melissa Hauser

Highway Residue

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After visualizing the unused area near the 500 block of Eddy St, we wanted to quanitfy these spaces all around Providence. After researching these urban rooms both on foot and by way of maps, we were able to determine their cumulative area.

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Brett Dunnam, Elias Gardner, Melissa Hauser

Highway Residue

Chris Bardt

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Chris Bardt

Zooming in, we wanted to explore the intricacies of the highway’s time and speed distortion. The following page shows a diagram in which walking speed is compared directly to highway speed.

Brett Dunnam, Elias Gardner, Melissa Hauser

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Because the cumulative area was so large, we wanted to create a relatable, visual context in which to display the information. We took the area calculation of the spaces and redistributed them at the scale of the city in Kennedy Plaza. The unused space under the highway in the city takes up the entire block.

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Brett Dunnam, Elias Gardner, Melissa Hauser

Highway Residue

Chris Bardt

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The introduction of highways in cities challenges our ability to cohesively define the scope of an urban neighborhood. Comparing the two extremes of urban velocity - street-level walking and highway-level driving - we’re able to see the notion of neighborhood distorted by the automobile. The individual under the overpass at Eddy Street hits a spatial limit in the time it takes to smoke a cigarette on a short walk from her dwelling, the neighborhood encompassed therein.

In the same amount of time, an automobile passing overhead will reach the airport or the Massachusetts border, its notion of neighborhood artificially mutated to the size of a city. At a regional scale, the highways tether urban centers closer together and diminish everything in between, creating a conglomerated urban landscape that in turn challenges our ability to cohesively define the scope of a city.

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Brett Dunnam, Elias Gardner, Melissa Hauser

Highway Residue

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Sonny Lee, Dan Laster and Adam Molinski

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Sonny Lee, Dan Laster and Adam Molinski

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= 10 people

allowable space = 305.64 cubic ft

even distribution at downtown denstiy

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22 23 density 1 Downtown 9,342 2 College Hill 2,780 3 Fox Point 3,466 4 Wayland 4,055 5 Blackstone 7,298 6 Hope 4,627 7 Mt. Hope 5,647 8 Charles 4,702 9 Wanskuck 3,607 10 Elmhurst 3,223 11 Mt. Pleasant 4,350 12 Manton 5,567 13 Hartford 3,832 14 Olneyville 3,178 15 Valley 3,895 16 Smith Hill 3,708 17 Silver Lake 2,806 18 Federal Hill 2,499 19 West End 2,120 20 Upper South Providence 4,524 21 Lower South Providence 4,319 22 Elmwood 220.8 23 Reservoir 8,353 24 South Elmwood 17,100 25 Washington Park 5,387

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density topography

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Sonny Lee, Dan Laster and Adam Molinski

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Sonny Lee, Dan Laster and Adam Molinski

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Margeaux Fischer, Nicole Wiznitzer, Eugenia Yu

Waste/Rain/Water Chris Bardt

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Margeaux Fischer, Nicole Wiznitzer, Eugenia Yu

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Margeaux Fischer, Nicole Wiznitzer, Eugenia Yu

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Farhan Mian, Julia Florenz, Lydia Cheng

Coherent Connections James Barnes

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Three indivduals became subjetcs for our research.

Thomas Donovan- The general manager of Cushman & Wakefield (A massachusetts based real-estate agency.

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The daunting task of dissecting the urban assembly of Providence, RI began for our group at an office complex set in the Jewelry District- One Davol Square.

Dianne- Receptionist at the One Davol complex.

Dana- Co-owner and waitress at ‘Cafe on the Square’, the complex’’s eatery.

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Coherent Connections

Their task was to interact with the city and ours was to document the conversation, a conversation that began at a courtyard.

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Reminisces of its history remain as gargantuan chimneys and vents track the bricked enclosure to the canopy. The canopy; refurbished in 2008; does well to mediate natural light into this central space, allowing for indoor vegetation to thrive.

These plants, amongst other elements are attempts made by Tom and his co-workers to revive its social potential. Granted, a number of events have been held in the courtyard: A Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship conference for 67 seated, four medal distribution ceremonies organized by the Marines recruiting station (located on the 3rd floor) and an event hosted by Rhode Island’s Representative and former Mayor, Congressmen David Cicilline.

Diane, the receptionist, reiterated that the lack of benches was not the biggest obstacle. Neither is the lack of efficient air-conditioning/heating that bricked walls limit. In her opinion the ten executive office suites that encompass you make the private event of eating a sandwich a public spectacle. She heads instead to 3 Davol, a complex connected to 1 Davol but fitted with a café, Café on the Square.

Coherent Connections

Operated by Brown University this courtyard sits central in the building. Multiple rennovatons, restorations and reprogramming have always been a feature here. Joseph Davol’s rubber factory space became the Davol Marketplace by the 1970’s. Struggling to rival Boston’s Quincy Market, the local Atrium and the neighborhood Garden city center, its faliure provided an opportunity for the districts most recent redevelopers, the Maguire Company, to step in.

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Here we find a breakfast sandwich, cup of coffee and cinnamon packed cake routinely prepared

by Dana. She thoroughly enjoys the space, remarking time and time again on the eloquence of the three bridges, cantilevering conference rooms and again, the impact of filtered daylight.

However, her business aims to provide for a crowd of executives the morning snack for the tired commuter. As lunch approaches employees at both Davol complexes begin to branch out in search of a meal.

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Farhan Mian, Julia Florenz, Lydia Cheng

Coherent Connections James Barnes

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Farhan Mian, Julia Florenz, Sifan Lydia Cheng

Coherent Connections

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Farhan Mian, Julia Florenz, Sifan Lydia Cheng

Coherent Connections

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Farhan Mian, Julia Florenz, Sifan Lydia Cheng

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Royce Bixby, Harley Nalley, Owen Song, Lissy King

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Idealized IM Pei Plan for Cathedral Square

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Diagram from 1937 Historic Map Royce Bixby, Harley Nalley, Owen Song, Lissy King

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Cathedral Square Historic Relationship to Providence

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Cathedral Square Historic Relationship to Providence

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1910 Historic Print

1910 Historic Photograph Diagram from 1937 Historic Map

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Historic Photograph (1967)

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Historic Photograph (December 1960)

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Constuction of Interstate 95

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From an Integrated Block to a Disconnected Room

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Diagram from Weybosset Hill project documentation

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Historic Photograph

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Westminster Street Pedestrian Mall (1960 - 1986)

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Connection: Providence to Region

Boston Logan Airport 164,495 flights in 2011

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J. F. K. Airport 185,747 flights in 2011

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Connection: Downcity to Providence

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Historically, the growth of cities has followed the development of its industry. With the founding of Providence Harbor in 1636, the city’s evolution has been largely driven by its ability to be transformed into an international seaport. To create a city capable of significant sea trade, the city focused on building its industry on both sides of it . The necessity of utilizing both sides meant that the river would bisect the city both physically and expressively. As a result, the Providence River is a linear threshold to the city.

In order for the city to embrace the river as a threshold and not as a gapping seam, the axis grain needed to run perpendicular to the river. Roads and bridges served this purpose and subsequently created new thresholds that helped to determine further districts of the city within the context of the river.

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River as a Threshold

Four bridges and the hurricane barrier along the river help to demonstrate this threshold over the course of its history.

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Providence Harbor founded at the convergence of two rivers and the Naragansett Bay.

Weybosset Street Bridge built to connect the original settlement with the Pequot Path.

The city decreed that a gangway be cut through Crawford’s property from Towne Street (S Main Street) to the waterfront for public access.

This was the first of 46 gangways to be cut along the East Bank.

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Gideon Crawford bought water from the first colonial landowner and built a house where the Old Stone Bank building now stands.

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The Cove is renovated to accommodate the Providence and Worcester Railroad.

In a series of 8 annexations from the surrounding towns of Cranston, Johnston, and North Providence, the city tripled its physical size. The population grew from 54,595 in 1865 to 175,597 by 1900.

By this time, the Cove had been completely filled, and retaining walls had been built by 1892 to confine the Woonasquatucket and the Moshassuck rivers to their new courses.

The Hurricane Barrier, just south of Point Street, cut the city’s inner harbor off from most commercial activity due to the overhead clearance of the barrier and the silting-in of the river.

River Relocation Plan

The new Providence River Bridge was floated down the river from Quonset Business Park to its final resting place in Providence.

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The Washington Bridge, once a bascule (moveable) bridge, was closed permanently to make way for Interstate 195.

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Crawford Street becomes Crawford Street Bridge.

The Market Square Bridge decking was expanded southward to reach the Crawford Street Bridge; and the Point Street Bridge was constructed.

The federal government reaffirmed it commitment to Rhode Island’s maritime industries by carrying out a $63 million dredging project in the Providence River. Dredging brought the channel back to a controlling depth of 40’, allowing vessels up the channel that were once forced to lighten their cargo into barges before transiting the river.

Today, the market served today by the Port of Providence covers 2,000 square miles, includes Rhode Island, Northeastern Connecticut, and Southeastern Massachusetts. Approximately 20 water-dependent facilities utilize the port and provide services to the region. Ships from around the world utilize the deep-water federal channel.

The majority of the region’s energy passes through Providence Harbor via four petroleum facilities: Sprague Energy and Motiva in Providence, and Exxon Mobil and Capital Terminals in East Providence.

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1660 Weybosset/Market Square Bridge

1837 Crawford Street Bridge

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At the scale of the room, the Weybosset Bridge, constructed in 1660, serves both as the origin of our analysis and as the first bridge built on the river. Its construction connected the original settlement with the Pequot Path and it marked the city’s edge.

At the scale of the building, the Crawford Street Bridge, built in 1937, marks the second river threshold.

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At the scale of the block, the Point Street Bridge, built in 1873, connected Wickenden Street and Point Street. At this time, Providence was in its golden age of industry and its robust trusses are an indication of that time. Additionally, the distance that this bridge moved down the river shows how the growth of industry expanded the size of the city.

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At the scale of the neighborhood, the I-Way Bridge, built in the 1950s, marks the end of the threshold before it merges into the harbor.

When the hurricane barrier was built in 1956 the city’s inner harbor was cut off from most commercial activity due to the overhead clearance of the barrier.

At the scale of the city, by continuing with the concept of the river as a threshold, the boundaries of all the scales followed the extents of the river. The watersheds pouring into the Providence River acted as the city boundary to understand the main rivers of the area.

At the scale of the region, the boundary took form as a connection between all the ends of the water sheds from the city scale map.

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The same comparisons were made looking at longitudinal sections of the bridge, one side looking west and the other looking east.

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To further identify the effects of the river on the city we compared all of the cross sections within the neighborhood boundary to visually see the programmatic differences along the river’s edge as it widens.

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Trash as a Thread

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81

Alex Diaz, Sheri Fabian, Camila Morales

Textiles

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RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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Alex Diaz, Sheri Fabian, Camila Morales

Textiles Almin Prsic

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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Alex Diaz, Sheri Fabian, Camila Morales

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RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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Alex Diaz, Sheri Fabian, Camila Morales

Textiles Almin Prsic

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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Alex Diaz, Sheri Fabian, Camila Morales

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Almin Prsic

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

86

Alex Diaz, Sheri Fabian, Camila Morales

Textiles Almin Prsic

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

87

Kuzina Cheng, Tristan Mead, Mykel Terada, Burgress Voshell

Exposure

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Almin Prsic

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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Ben Crocker, Bruce Karadag, Tae Wook Rho

Market House: A Center of Change

Almin Prsic

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

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RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

THE BUILDING

94

Ben Crocker, Bruce Karadag, Tae Wook Rho

Market House: A Center of Change

FIRST FLOOR ELEVATION BOARD OF TRADE LARGE STORAGE AREA IN BASEMENT

ENLARGED WINDOW TO DOOR SIZE

TWO STORY BUILDING EXPANSION

REMOVAL OF FIRST FLOOR INTERIOR WAL

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Ben Crocker, Bruce Karadag, Tae Wook Rho

Market House: A Center of Change

Almin Prsic

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

THE BLOCK

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Ben Crocker, Bruce Karadag, Tae Wook Rho

Market House: A Center of Change Almin Prsic

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

NEIGHBORHOOD

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WATER EDUCATIONAL

MAIN ROAD RESIDENTIAL

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1803

Ben Crocker, Bruce Karadag, Tae Wook Rho

Market House: A Center of Change

Almin Prsic

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

CITY

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Almin Prsic

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

FOOD CROPS MEDICAL TOOLS HISTORIC ROUTE (1875) HISTORIC IMPORTS HISTORIC EXPORTS IMPORTS 2002 EXPORTS 2002

METALS

METALS PLASTICS

AGRICULTURE & FISH IRON

GRAINS TIMBER TEA

JEWELRY

ALCOHOL

TEXTILES

STEEL WHEAT

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Ben Crocker, Bruce Karadag, Tae Wook Rho

Market House: A Center of Change

WOOL

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MACHINERY SEAFOOD WOOD PRODUCTS PHARMACEUTICALS

METALS

99

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjcencies

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

REGION At a regional scale, the separation of program is defined by large-scale elements such as the coastline and the highway.

“This completes the global patterns which define a town or a community. We now start that part of the language which gives shape to groups of buildings, and individual buildings, on the land, in three dimensions. These are the patterns which can be “designed” or “built” the patterns which define the individual buildings and the space between buildings, where we are dealing for the first time with patterns that are under the control of individuals or small groups of individuals, who are able to build the patterns all at once.”

100

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjacencies

-- Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language

15,868

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

LOW

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

MEDIUM

101

HIGH

Programmatic Adjcencies

VERY HIGH

17,389

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

CITY Program begins to be defined by building use and typology, and is a means for defining areas of overlap and interest for further study.

“We begin with that part of the language which defines a town or a community. These patterns can never be “designated” or “built” in one fell swoop - but patient piecemeal growth, deigned in such a way that every individual act is always helping to crete or generate these larger global patterns, will, slowly and surely, over the years make a community that has these global patterns in it.”

102

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjacencies

- Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language

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Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjcencies

Âł

103

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Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Transportation Open Space / Recreation Residential Downtonwn Mixed Use Commercial Commercial / Industrial Mixed Use Industrial Institutional / Civic

104

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjacencies

Waterfront Mixed Use

400’ 200’

800’

105

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjcencies

rban Design Principles

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

NEIGHBORHOOD Program at the neighborhood scale begin to overlap in activity-filled areas of the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are very few spots along the streets of modern towns and neighborhoods where people can hang out, comfortably, for hours at a time.â&#x20AC;?

106

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjacencies

-Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language

Institutional / Civic

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Commercial

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Downtonwn Mixed Use

107

Residential

Programmatic Adjcencies

Open Space / Recreation

108

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Anne Tate

Programmatic Adjacencies Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

109

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjcencies

Urban Ur rb ba an De Design es siign g P Principles rriinc n ip plle es es

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Anne Tate

Programmatic Adjacencies

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

110

BLOCK The study at the block scale illustrates a city block devided by a program (the highway) almost equal in sectional scale. In plan, the highway is similar to another regional-scale programmatic divider (the river). However, the spatial and experietial implications are drastically different.

111

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjcencies

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

112

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjacencies

Bl k Hi i

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

113

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjcencies

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Building Mixed-use buildings downtown become points of programmatic overlap in both the vertical and the horizontal, creating vibrant urban spaces. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are the patterns which define the individual buildings and the space between buildings, where we are dealing for the first time with patterns that are under the control of the individual.â&#x20AC;?

114

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjacencies

- Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language

Commercial

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Downtonwn Mixed Use

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Residential

115

Open Space / Recreation

Programmatic Adjcencies

Transportation

Institutional / Civic

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

ROOM The room-scale urban space contains programmatic overlap through physical use, views, scale, and user group; all in an outdoor public setting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.â&#x20AC;?

116

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjacencies

- Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language

117

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjcencies

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

118

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Anne Tate

Programmatic Adjacencies Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

119

Giles Holt, Jeana Antle, Andy Bahari

Programmatic Adjcencies

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Anne Tate

Development of arterial roads over the preexisting Indian trails.

Group Members

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Group Title 120

REGIONAL

121

Group Members

Group Title

Westminster Street, The Straight Cut

Weybosset Street, The Original Indian Trail

Anne Tate

RISD S U UDP D 2011: U DP Urban Analysis

Anne Tate Group Members

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Group Title 122

CITY Evolution of city grids in relation to waters edge over time.

1700

1803

123

Group Members

Group Title

1823

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

NEIGHBORHOOD

124

Group Members

Group Title

ABOVE: Map denoting Industrial Sectors in 1970 Providence Zoning.

RIGHT: Overlay of 1700 Providence River edge in relation to current-day street orientation.

1

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

1927, 1958 and Present Day Providence images examine existing street view corridors and how they relate to the old warf pattern along the Providence River.

3 1927

2

Group Members

2010

125

1958

Group Title

4

126

Group Members

Group Title Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

BLOCK

127

Group Members

Group Title

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

128

Group Members

Group Title Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

BUILDING analyzing building development through time.

129

Group Members

Group Title

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Anne Tate

Weybosset and Westminster Intersection versus Chestnut and Ship Street Intersection: Contrast of Successful and Unsuccessful enclosure of space for Inhabitation.

Chestnut-Ship Street Intersection

Group Members

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Group Title 130

ROOM

131

Group Members

Group Title

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

Weybosset-Westminster Street Intersection

132

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

133

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

134

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

135

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

136

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

137

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

138

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

139

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

140

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

141

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

142

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

143

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

144

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

145

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

146

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

147

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

148

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

149

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

150

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

151

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors

Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis

152

Jacob Miller. Nathaniel Vice. Min Kim

Visual Corridors Anne Tate

RISD UDP 2011: Urban Analysis