MOVEMEANT by Kiedric Berry

Kiedric Berry

Final Project Sequence F20-S21

MOVEMEANT

Kiedric Lenard Berry Carla Leitao Rensselaer School of Architecture December 2021 Master of Architecture

Table of Contents Abstract 5 Thesis Statement 6 History/Precedent 9 Research & Working Methodology 21 Project Development 37 Conclusion 61 Bibliography 62 Image Citations 62

Acknowledgments Carla Leitao - Principle Aum Studio Ted Kreguer - Critic The MOVE Organization The Berry Family 2021 Final Project Awards Review Jury: Hina Jamelle: Contemporary Architecture Practice, UPenn Thom Mayne: Morphosis, Sci-Arc Theodore Spyropoulos: Minimaforms, Architectural Assoication DRL Marion Weis: Weiss/Manfredi, UPenn 2021 Harriet Peck Prize Winner

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Abstract This thesis engages architectures of apparent contrasting natures: architectures of flow and contagion, architectures of isolation and quarantine. Contrasting natures are revealed through two typologies, the fortress versus the sponge. Where the fortress acts as a place of refuge insusceptible to outside influence or disturbance, while the sponge serves as a connector, providing a new dynamic urban spatial condition for the community to connect, disconnect, spread ideas, and concerns. Architectures are deployed in Cobbs Creek, Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Deployment occurs at contemporary voids near the site of the 1985 Philadelphia Police bombing on the primitive back to nature African American organization MOVE resulting in the death of five children, six adults, and leaving 250 people homeless. The thesis oscillates through the mediums of documentary film, soundtrack, and a proposition.

Fig. 1—Bettmann/Bettman Archive, The Guardian, 1985, Remains of Osage Avenue following the satchel bomb released by the Philadelphia Police Department.

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Fig. 2—Unkown, May 16, 1978. Police at arms as MOVE members exit their home in Powelton Village during the seige. The scene of the crime was destroyed to thwart the investigation of the death of officer James J. Ramp reportedly shot from behind. Fig. 3—George Widman, Associated Press), May 15, 1985. A worker transports the remains of a body found in the rubble

Thesis Statement Veridical connections between African American’s and diagrams of apparent contrasting natures: diagrams of connectivity and contagion, and diagrams of containment and isolation have carceral yet dynamic implications. Historically revolutionary resistance movements contesting systematic efforts to suppress progression and cultural representation are consistently met with castrative tactics from authoritative structures. In result, the dismemberment of a community and the relationship of a people to a place is a repeated construct in the African American’s struggle to develop autonomous communities. Architecture as a discipline can no longer act as an innocent bystander denouncing its contribution to perverse conditions and the effects thereof. Architects should actively contribute to spreading the concerns of the misunderstood and unheard facilitating memorization while prompting liberating futures. At the onset of anthropocenic concern, MOVE a religious construct organized by its founder John Africa’s principles adapted a primitive back to nature lifestyle. Nested in Philadelphia’s Cobbs Creek, confined to an urban fortress MOVE promoted life as it’s governing principle. Other concerns included but are not limited to: pollution, communal poisoning, big business, diet, gender, sex, death, entertainment, and animal welfare. John Africa’s theodicy of the system correlates with the Christian theodicy of the Fall1. MOVE often held demonstrations vowing the system as the overarching cause of the world’s problems and denouncing it in every which way. The Urban fortress previously located in the Powelton Village neighborhood of West Philadelphia, acted as a sponge for humans and an array of animal species. Met with resistance from authoritative figures, and citizens due to protest demonstrations, composting on site, and the construction of additional barriers resulted in consistent eviction and displacement efforts. A series of police conflicts forced MOVE to relocate to Cobbs Creek where the ultimate attempt at destruction and dismemberment took place. On Mothers Day, May 12, 1985 citizens where told to evacuate their homes for 24 hours by authorities stating that a siege was going to take place. The siege began with firefighters ordered to blast hundreds of gallons of water onto the house at 1 Evans, R. K. (2020). MOVE: An American religion. In MOVE: An American religion “Belief and Practice”. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Fig. 4— Matt Slocum, (Associated Press, 2020). Hundreds demonstrate after the video captured death of unarmed Walter Wallace against excessive use of force by the police of West Philadelphia against people of color.

6221 Osage Avenue in effort to drown the MOVE animals, men, women, and children out of the house. On the evening of May 13, 1985, longstanding tensions between MOVE, and the Philadelphia Police Department resulted in a satchel bomb, a demolition device typically used in combat laced with explosives on the roof of the MOVE fortress in effort to dislodge the rooftop bunker. Orders from the authorities led to unextinguished flames resulting in the death of eleven people, including five children and six adults leaving 250 people homeless and a community scarred forever. Concerns of MOVE are now contemporary demands as necessary solutions for pollution, systematic oppression, business corruption, human and animal rights are more prevalent now than ever. This thesis investigates the contrasting natures of the fortress versus the sponge in effort to revitalize the Cobbs Creek Community. As history and reverence is promoted through memorization, open ended constructs are imagined through prosthetic architectures with tactical programming as an environmental acupuncture for liberative futures. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, one in four kids in West Philly suffers from asthma2. Well tended homes are described as respiratory battle zones for children with allergic asthma. Invisible dust mites, hidden mold, third-hand tobacco, and pest trigger asthma attacks frequently. The industrial and residential zone of West Philadelphia, has resulted in aging housing stock, deteriorating infrastructure, and brown-fields posing ongoing environmental hazards. “Residents of Philadelphia and the metro area should be aware that we’re breathing unhealthy air, driven by local emissions, upwind sources, and extreme heat as a result of climate change placing our health and lives at risk!” Said Kevin Stewart, the American Lung Association’s Director of Environmental Health for Advocacy and Public Policy. The sponge, imagined as a topological architecture model tactically structured to facilitate cooperative economic connections throughout the community while providing a new clean air solution. Deployment is facilitated under three conditions: the rowhouse, the corner, and the open. 2 Giordano, R. (2019, April 10). 1 in 4 kids in West Philly suffers from asthma. and many common triggers lurk in their homes. Retrieved May 04, 2021, from https:// www.inquirer.com/health/asthma-triggers-childrens-hospital-philadelphia-prevention-program-20190410.html

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History/Precedent Strategic exploration began in Final Project 1, Fall 2020 with strategies of disconnection. Where data based arguments and findings revealed precedent projects which indexed while providing a solution. The following strategy, re-connection revealed various spatial typologies for immersive experiences. At the confluence, an augmented environment was constructed based on an existing context, Baltimore, Maryland in collaboration with students Shane Alzheimer, and Mike Bibby. Through site selection, design and exploration new precedents were revealed continuing the practice of indexing while solving such as the Smog Free tower by Studio Roosegaarde, Dusty Relief by Francios Roche, The Dirt Factory by Philadelphia Citizens, and the principles and practices of the MOVE organization.

Fig. 5 —The Philadephia Inquirer and Temple University Urban Archives, Remains of Osage Avenue. Fig. 6 —Zadie Smith, Swing Time (West End Mill Remains). Remains of West End Mill in their alignment with Catherine Avenue. The top of the S-curve access road aligns with Cedar Avenue.

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Disconnection Strategies In 2020, in response to the global Coronavirus pandemic, the NBA constructed a grand experiment in how technology, policy, and human behavior can influence a pandemic. 22 teams and 322 players arrived to the bubble in Orlando Florida. Required to self-isolate in their rooms for 48 hours, accurate testing, contact tracing, and limited interactions proved to be a successful disconnection strategy limiting the spread of infection while participating in increased levels of social interactions3. In Mexico City, Mexico 60% of the population is considered poor. Poor areas stretch roughly 58,000 sq miles with a population over 2 million people. The border condition shown in figure 3 reveals premium real estate along the divide where developers have begun to carve out areas of slums to develop middle class estates. New developments capitalize off the promise of economic vitality while 3. Giordano, R. (2019, April 10). 1 in 4 kids in West philly suffers from asthma. and many common triggers lurk in their homes. Retrieved May 04, 2021, from https:// www.inquirer.com/health/asthma-triggers-childrens-hospital-philadelphia-prevention-program-20190410.html

Fig. 7—Kiedric Berry, Photoshop - Source Google Images, Space Jam Predicted the Future. Fig. 8—https://unequalscenes.com/mexico-city-df, Extreme wealth inequality in Mexio City’s Santa Fe neighborhood.

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providing no connective infrastructure for the existing community. Continuing the tactic of disconnection through segregation4. In Chester, South Carolina the Chester County Hospital constructed in 1947 was segregated by design. Architects developed both vertical and horizontal designs with white hospital beds located near operating rooms on isolated floors with seperate parking and entrances designed for whites vs colored. White waiting rooms were much larger. Disproportionate distributions of bathrooms were strategically placed on all floors whereas single colored men and women bathrooms were positioned in the basement next to custodial closets5. 4. Mexico city. (n.d.). Retrieved September 04, 2020, from https://unequalscenes. com/mexico-city-df 5. The Public Historian, ed. Randolph Bergstrom, Volume 27, Issue 4, Fall 2005, pages 11-44.Weyeneth, R. R. (2005). The architecture of racial segregation: The challenges of preserving the problematic past. The Public Historian,27(4), 11-44. DOI: 10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.11

Fig. 9-10—Robert Weyeneth, The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past, 2005. Chester County Hospital 1947, Architectural Segregation to create disconnection

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Reconnection Two kinds of immersions, mental and sensory were explored to facilitate reconnection. Where sensory immersion is the result of perceiving a virtual environment such as chat rooms, 3D simulated worlds, etc., mental immersion is the result of imagining a narrative as experienced while watching a film or reading a book6. Reality was shifted when 12.3 million players attended a live virtual concert inside of the critically acclaimed video game Fortnite during the global pandemic. “This necessary leads us on to architecture, for it is properly considered together with music, the original form in which the immersion of humans in artificial environments has been developed into a culturally controlled process”, Peter Sloterdijk. 6. Editor. (2016, September 03). Two sides of the Same Immersion. Retrieved September 22, 2020, from http://mprcenter.org/review/two-sides-of-the-same-immersion/

Fig. 11—Creator’s first and last name (if applicable), Title of Work, Date (if applicable). Short description of image (if applicable). Fig. 12—Creator’s first and last name (if applicable), Title of Work, Date (if applicable). Short description of image (if applicable).

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Veridical connections with a need to self express can be traced to slavery where African Americans constructed their own housing. In effort to disconnect the now slaves from their African heritage white slave owners prevented any self expression by forcing slaves to construct their homes similar to those of the master. “In the United States, segregation and discrimination kept African Americans from mainstream American society. However the celebrity of Josephine Baker provided new opportunities for cultural expression through architecture. Josephine Baker’s relationship with Le Corbusier has been prophesied as a source of inspiration for the form and spatial and conditions of The Vila Sovoye in Poissy, France. In 1925 Josephine Baker crossed paths with the Ornament and Crime Architect, Adolf Loos. Baker’s dissatisfaction with conceptual plans for her new Paris mansion, were answered by Loos “But Josephine, did you not know that I can draw you the most beautiful plan in the world?” 7. Described as a small variate for Josephine Baker the conceptual design is tattooed with ornamental expression contrary to majority of the work of Adolf Loos. In addition the project features Josephine’s ironic play of transgression between skin, colors, class distinctions, and social habits. African American culture is expressed as a reconnection strategy through the unbuilt Josephine Baker house by Adolf Loos. Fig. 13—Munari, Nicola-Matteo (designculture.it/ profile/adolf-loos.html 2013-17). Joephine Baker House

7. Slessor, C. (2020, July 28). Loos and BAKER: A house for Josephine. Retrieved October, 2020, from https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/loos-and-baker-ahouse-for-josephine

Fig. 14—Candela Oliva, A House for The Black Venus, 2013. Le Corbusier and Josephine Baker costume partying on “Lutetia”, 1929.

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Dusty Relief Dusty Relief by Francois Roche, allows the citizen to inhabit exhibition spaces while indexing the problem of dust. The electrostatic system attracts dust on the surface of aluminum latticework. An exacerbating schizophrenia climate lies between the white cubes, whereas euclidean geometry, and exterior dust relief forms a labyrinth of topological geometry. “The dust dresses her biotope, even going so far as to modify the climate”...We are talking here of two distinct geometric structures: one is Euclidean, where cultural merchandises are circulated in an aseptic and deteritorialized universe, and the other typology, plunged in a intoxicating urban chaos” 8 (R&Sie...architects, 112). 8. Roche, F., &amp; Lavaux, S. (2004). Corrupted biotopes r&amp;sie... architects. In Corrupted biotopes R&amp;Sie... architects (pp. 107-120). Seoul: DAMDI.

Fig. 15—R&Sie...architects/France, Dusty Relief, 2008. Dusty Relief Exhibition Space Render. Fig. 16—R&Sie...architects/France, Dusty Relief, 2008. Dusty Relief diagrammatic section.

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Smog Free Tower The Smog Free Tower is a clean air solution led by Daan Roosegaarde to reduce air pollution combined with government workshops, students, and the clean-tech industry. The tower’s involvement with such entities enables the object to perform tactically as a piece of architecture that serves as a catalyst for connective interactions. The twenty-two foot tall tower utilizes positive ionization technologies to produce smog free air in public spaces within a 60 mile radius while using small amounts of green electricity. True beauty is not a Louis Vuitton bag or a Ferrari, but clean air and clean energy”, Daan Roosegaarde9. 9. Update

Fig. 17—Studio Roosegaarde, ENS, Smog Free Tower. Specs. Fig. 18—Studio Roosegaarde, Smog Free Tower. Site photo of the built clean air tower.

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The Dirt Factory The Dirt Factory transforms fallen leaves and food scraps from the local community into nutrient rich compost for the neighborhood’s use. Also serving as an educational center, The Dirt Factory facilitates programs surrounding the practices of composting, and ways to reduce your carbon footprint by recycling your own food scraps. Within the Cobbs Creek locale, the Dirt Factory occupied the vacant lot of 4308 Market St, Philadelphia PA ., 19104. The Dirt Factory has since been closed due to the purchase of the vacant lot by developers. The consumption of raw food and composting was a major component of MOVE’s lifestyle often tossing the remains of food portions in the yard for animals to eat and natural decomposition. In contrast to the radical practices, misunderstandings and conflicts, the Dirt Factory reinterprets these ideas functioning only by the strength in numbers of engagement. The map below details contributions of compost by the 10th gallon throughout the Cobbs Creek territory10. Fig. 19—Kiedric Berry, Dirt Factory Growth Map. The map details concentration of contributions of gallons donated to the dirt factory by local citizens, Source WHYY PBS.

10. Jaramillo, C. (2017, February 06). Composting in Philadelphia: Where we are and where we are going. Retrieved February 04, 2021, from https://whyy.org/articles/ composting-in-philadelphia-where-we-are-and-where-we-are-going/

Fig. 20—Ryan Collerd, Catalina Jaramillo, Feb 2017. Composting in Philadelphia: Where we are and where we are going.

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All 179 Murals

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Research and Working Methodology Augmented environments were constructed in collaboration with students Shane Alzheimer and Mike Bibby. Located in the city of Baltimore where many data sets reflect the notorious history of crime and corruption which has plagued the city since the downfall of industrialization. Three data sets: Baltimore City Murals, Public Art Inventory, and Vacant Buildings were analyzed to extract information to improve positive communal engagement. The augmented environment is an installation of Baltimore City Murals based on zip codes to unearth areas devoted to public art initiatives over time. Following the augmented intervention the Cobbs Creek site was selected for thesis exploration. Research & Methodology continued with the intention to create communal connection among adverse conditions11. 11. Number of public murals. (n.d.). Retrieved November 04, 2020, from https:// data.baltimorecity.gov/datasets/bniajfi::number-of-public-murals Fig. 23—Kiedric Berry, Shane Alzheimer, Mike Bibby, Augmented Environment FP1, Fall 2o2o. 179 City Murals calibrated by zip code to examine cultural connection through art within the city. Fig. 24—Unkown, West Baltimore City Murals. Google Images .

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AQI Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, 51 - 100should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.

Cobbs Creek Watershed

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Cobbs Creek Cobbs Creek was originally a Native American territory occupied by the Lenni Lenape tribe. Over time, the territory developed into a mill-work district through industrialization. Philadelphia like many Northeast cities saw an increase in its black population from the great migration through the second world war. J.M Brewer whom served as a chief appraiser in Philadelphia for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was one of the biggest mortgage lenders in Philadelphia during the 1940s. Brewer served as a consultant to the Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC) and helped to create the 1937 map for Philadelphia which redlined Cobbs Creek and indicating a low quality of life for the citizens. Redlined districts contributed to the isolation, and quarantine of African Americans and other minority groups through segregation as a disconnection strategy. Today 1 in 4 children in West Philadelphia suffers from Asthma. In addition to the traumatic events of history, citizens seek a safe place of refuge within the Cobbs Creek dstrict12. Fig. 21—Kiedric Berry, Narrative Sections, 2021. Fig. 22—J.M Brewer (if applicable), Map of Philadelphia, 1934. HOLC redlining map of Cobbs Creek Philadelphia.

12. Brewer, J. (n.d.). J. M. Brewer’s map of Philadelphia, 1934 - south section. Retrieved January 04, 2021, from https://www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/viewimage.cfm/JMB1934.Phila.002.SouthSection

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Principles & Isolation MOVE denounced the system and enacted the principles of its founder John Africa. Principles included but are not limited to the preservation of all life, natural law, right and wrong, living as a revolutionary family, raw food diet, composting, and denouncing persecution. The organizations activated stance was often met with confrontation from the police, neighbors, and other opposing forces. Instead MOVE persisted with its protesting and demonstrative efforts in hope to prompt immediate change for the betterment of life for all species. A series of disputes led MOVE into isolation. Forced into quarantine by a police blockade during the first standoff in Powelton Village 1978, MOVE continued it’s practices. Following a horrific police siege on Powelton, MOVE relocated to Osage Avenue where a year long conflict resulted in a blockade and siege on May 13, 1985.

Fig. 25—The Philadephia Inquirer and Temple University Urban Archives, May 13, 1985. Delbert Africa surrendering to Philadelphia Police, prior to being beaten and dragged by the two cops pictured. Fig. 26—Uknown. Map showing the distance between the two MOVE headquarters both the sites of two seperate deadly blockade & seige events in 1978, and 1985. Fig. 27-28—Kiedric Berry drawing of, Michael & Randy Boyette, LET IT BURN, 1989. Maps of Osage Avenue and Surrounding Areas during the 1985 Police siege.

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May 13, 1985 On the morning of May 13, 1985 hundreds of cameramen, neighbors, relatives, and community activist pressed against the police barricades requesting information about what was happening on Osage Avenue. Out of the darkness, beyond the barricades at 6:15am the first smoke grenades were fired. Within seconds dense smoke filled the street and alley and thousands of gallons of water flooded across the rooftops. “The houses to their left were dim in the haze and the darkness. Ahead was a sheet of roaring water from the SQRTs, looking as if someone had taken the alley and put it at the base of Niagara Falls”.(Boyette, 367). “Finally satisfied, he let go of the bag. It dropped away, headed exactly where he wanted - just behind the front bunker”(Boyette, 397). The bomb exploded and a shock traveling nearly 24, 500 miles per hour - approximately 35 times the speed of sound- spread across the roof. The ball of flame mushroomed upward into the air...” What are we going to do about the fire?” Deputy Fire Chief Frank Scipione asked Commissioner Richmond. “If we let the bunker burn can you control the fire”? “Yes” he told Sambor. “We should be able to control the fire”. Sambor resisted, and would not follow orders to stop the fire in attempt to burn the bunker permanently. The smoke and flames grew so quickly that they could not see the far end of the alley. The only way out of the house was through a small hatch, no more than two feet by two feet, which led from the walled-up garage to the back alley. Fig. 29—Michael and Randy Boyette, LET IT BURN, 1989. Section drawing inside the MOVE and surrounding houses during the 1985 Police siege. Fig. 30—Uknown, Unkown. Physical model of the fortified rowhouse at 6221 Osage Avenue by the MOVE organization.

The blue skies of early May 13 led way to dark smoggy low clouds. Crews stood among the ruins, crumbling structures, and remaining fire division walls which once served as a place of refuge and home to the citizens of Cobbs Creek. The 6200 block of Osage Avenue was gone. “Over the next several days they would uncover the charred, twisted, and half consumed remains of eleven people. Among them they would find the bodies of five children, and six adults. “The investigators found eleven bodies altogether. All of them lay within the walls of the foundation” (Boyette, 427)13.

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Nearby Voids Homes on Osage Avenue have been rebuilt twice over. Residents have complained that previous rebuilds were shabby, and built with basswood and crazy glue, leaking at first rain, with collapsing floors. In this thesis nearby voids have provided opportunity to deploy air filtration modules in a variety of conditions in hopes to establish new public spaces for connective reproduction. Voids are filled with an openness of opportunity providing the community with opportunity to scaffold off both technically and programmatically for whatever they may choose.

Fig. 32—Google Earth Studio.

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Project Development In attempt to develop a tactical architecture to serve as a monument as a verb while enacting the principles of the MOVE organization, led to the investigation of three conditions: the corner, the rowhouse, and the open. Each condition functions independently to disconnect and reconnect citizens as a portal to a fortress, or a sponge. The scope of each site provides limitations each with a different bounding box and function. Modules were explored through a variety of forms. Twisted box and sub d modeling resulted in the form of the sponge. From the Rowhouse condition, the addition of the tongue serves as a platform for communal engagement. The open condition unveils itself as a catch and release typology, over time developing into a trellis as a co-species environment. The module is developed with the possibility of impermanence and permanence as a topological structure with the possibility of serving as a prototype for a variety of urban conditions.

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The Fortress vs The Urban Fortress acts as a place of refuge insusceptible to outside influence or disturbance. Urban massing provides strong footprints creating blocks with little to no voids to facilitate connection, and congregation for the community. However they act as dwellings, to isolate, quarantine, and contain oneself. Infamous Philadelphia Rowhouses date back to the late 1600s fortified and built as a retreat from the outside world.

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The Sponge The sponge serves as a connector. Providing a new urban public spatial condition for the community to connect, disconnect, spread ideas and concerns. The sponge provides the community with the opportunity to scaffold off programmatically and spatially providing new dynamic conditions. The sponge utilizes positive ionization and photo-catalysis oxidation to provide clean air through a passive and active pressurized system. The sponge functions as an environmental asthma pump providing a breath of fresh air to serve as a catalyst for communal connection and reproduction. In addition environmental data collected is dispersed as an educational providing an IoT for the Cobbs Creek Community.

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The Rowhouse The Rowhouse provides clean air in a tunnel condition for the pedestrian while releasing and filtering air at the street and sky level as well. When the sponge is bound to the slot, air insist on directed circulation. Selected voids intend to serve as passage ways to new connective infrastructure programmed and facilitated by the community of Cobbs Creek for regeneration. Like most architecture projects, it is unbeknowst what will appear in result of new developments. In this case we believe the new air filtration infrastructure will serve as a catalyst for historical, educational, and environmental education while also serving as a folly facilitating recreation.

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The Corner The Corner builds on the companion of pre-existing party walls where one could imagine two or three fortresses once appeared. The new condition provides a connective infrastructure framing the pre-existing party wall as a screen for projecting media. In addition the corner provides a new architectural infrastructure to redefine the context of the street corner in minority urban conditions. Historically the street corner has served as a sponge for conversation, marketplace, and new exchanges. The Corner provides space for the unpredictable continuously functioning as an environmental prosthetic, while adapting new roles based on time, program, and season. The corner typology provides a mix of performative attributes invigorating constructive protest as a living stage while providing contemporary technology for media sharing encouraging immersive events.

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The Open The open condition rethinks the sponge through an exaggerated catch and release. Porous modular filtration units are organized as a wall condition creating a new clean air void for connective activity for the citizens of Cobbs Creek. The void acts as an immersive environment providing a new sense of place as a cospecies environment welcoming all species. The open condition acts passively as an air filtration system with adaptive green infrastructure . Over time the filtration system will emerge as a trellis acting as a mechanical and organic tree filtering air for all life.

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Conclusion You know what we are going to do? “We are going to defend ourselves”, as Huey P. Newton says. Power is the ability to define phenomena and make an act in a desired manner. As architects we have the ability to define, and it is our duty to organize communal activity for the advancement of the revolution. Architecture as a discipline can no longer act as an innocent bystander denouncing its contribution to perverse conditions and the effects thereof. Architects should actively contribute to spreading the concerns of the misunderstood and unheard facilitating memorization while prompting liberating futures.

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Image Citations 1. Fig. 1—Bettmann/Bettman Archive, The Guardian, 1985, Remains of Osage Avenue following the satchel bomb released by the Philadelphia Police Department. 2. Fig. 2—Unkown, May 16, 1978. Police at arms as MOVE members exit their home in

Powelton Village during the seige. The scene of the crime was destroyed to thwart the investigation of the death of officer James J. Ramp reportedly shot from behind.

3. Fig. 3—George Widman, Associated Press), May 15, 1985. A worker transports the remains of a body found in the rubble.

4. Fig. 4— Matt Slocum, (Associated Press, 2020). Hundreds demonstrate after the

video captured death of unarmed Walter Wallace against excessive use of force by the police of West Philadelphia against people of color. 5. Fig. 5 —The Philadephia Inquirer and Temple University Urban Archives, Remains of Osage Avenue. 6. Fig. 6 —Zadie Smith, Swing Time (West End Mill Remains). Remains of West End Mill in their alignment with Catherine Avenue. The top of the S-curve access road aligns with Cedar Avenue. 7. Fig. 7—Kiedric Berry, Photoshop - Source Google Images, Space Jam Predicted the Future. 8. Fig. 8—https://unequalscenes.com/mexico-city-df, Extreme wealth inequality in Mexio City’s Santa Fe neighborhood. 9. Fig. 9-10—Robert Weyeneth, The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past, 2005. Chester County Hospital 1947, Architectural Segregation to create disconnection 11. Fig. 11—Creator’s first and last name (if applicable), Title of Work, Date (if applicable). Short description of image (if applicable). 12. Fig. 12—Creator’s first and last name (if applicable), Title of Work, Date (if applicable). Short description of image (if applicable). 13. Fig. 13—Munari, Nicola-Matteo (designculture.it/profile/adolf-loos.html 2013-17). Joephine Baker House 14. Fig. 14—Candela Oliva, A House for The Black Venus, 2013. Le Corbusier and Josephine Baker costume partying on “Lutetia”, 1929. 15. Fig. 15—R&Sie...architects/France, Dusty Relief, 2008. Dusty Relief Exhibition Space Render. 16. Fig. 16—R&Sie...architects/France, Dusty Relief, 2008. Dusty Relief diagrammatic section.

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Image Citations 17. Fig. 17—Studio Roosegaarde, ENS, Smog Free Tower. Specs. 18. Fig. 18—Studio Roosegaarde, Smog Free Tower. Site photo of the built clean air tower. 19. Fig. 19—Kiedric Berry, Dirt Factory Growth Map. The map details concentration of contributions of gallons donated to the dirt factory by local citizens, Source WHYY PBS. 20. Fig. 20—Ryan Collerd, Catalina Jaramillo, Feb 2017. Composting in Philadelphia: Where we are and where we are going. 21. Fig. 21—Kiedric Berry, Narrative Sections, 2021. 22. Fig. 22—J.M Brewer (if applicable), Map of Philadelphia, 1934. HOLC redlining map of Cobbs Creek Philadelphia. 23. Fig. 23—Kiedric Berry, Shane Alzheimer, Mike Bibby, Augmented Environment FP1, Fall 2o2o. 179 City Murals calibrated by zip code to examine cultural connection through art within the city. 24. Fig. 24—Unknown, West Baltimore City Murals. Google Images. 25. Fig. 25—The Philadelphia Inquirer and Temple University Urban Archives, May 13, 1985. Delbert Africa surrendering to Philadelphia Police, prior to being beaten and dragged by the two cops pictured. 26. Fig. 26—Unknown. Map showing the distance between the two MOVE headquarters both the sites of two separate deadly blockade & siege events in 1978, and 1985. 27. Fig. 27-28—Kiedric Berry drawing of, Michael & Randy Boyette, LET IT BURN, 1989. Maps of Osage Avenue and Surrounding Areas during the 1985 Police siege. 29. Fig. 29—Michael and Randy Boyette, LET IT BURN, 1989. Section drawing inside the MOVE and surrounding houses during the 1985 Police siege. 30. Fig. 30—Unknown, Unknown. Physical model of the fortified rowhouse at 6221 Osage Avenue by the MOVE organization. 31. Google Images 32. Ayers, E. (2021, April 30). The grim open secret hidden in ivy league museums. Retrieved May 04, 2021, from https://slate.com/news-andpolitics/2021/04/move-bombing-victims-princeton-penn-museum-historyanthropology.html

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