ROANOKE FOOD HUB
TABLE OF CONTENTS PROJECT OVERVIEW PRECEDENT RESEARCH CODE & ZONING ANALYSIS SITE PLAN FLOOR PLANS EXPERIENTIAL ACCESIBILITY ELEVATIONS BUILDING SECTIONS STRUCTURAL
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Rafael Baquerizo Arosemena
PROJECT OVERVIEW Located in the Historic District of Roanoke, the 15,000 sf site sits between Campbell Av. and Kirv Av. Adjacent to the food market, which is a hotspot for Roanokers looking to buy goods. Projecting to satisfy demands of a locally based food source, the design of an Urban Food Hub in Downtown Roanoke attemps to work for the best interest of the local community.
Connection The main access to the site will be through pedestrian movement coming from the West, especifically from the Food Market area of the Historic District. Allowing a seemless connection between these two commercial and public spaces.
Massing After numerous studies of the massing, the finish proposal continues with the urban wall. The lower third of the front elevation of the building opens the sidewalk onto the site to suggest pedestrians the idea of a public entrance.
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ROANOKE HISTORIC DISTRICT
Containing around 120 buildings, the Historic District of Roanoke is full of color, material texture and decorative elements on its facades. Retail spaces and open markets fill the sidewalks with people looking for different types of goods. After site visits and walking through the famous Campbell Ave. The decorative elements on the windows of the buildings and the use of brick are both very particular design elements which could open an opportunity to continue forward with the use of these two.
PRECEDENT RESEARCH
Poetry Foundation By Ronan Architects Chicago, Illinois
Studying the movement of the building mass around the site in order to achieve small outdoor moments that isolate you from the city’s daily noise and movement.
Study of the building mass
The corner of the Poetry Foundation opens its first layer of the building to allow pedestrians to have a seemless entry way to the building
View from the interior garden of the building to the adjacent street Architecture IV - Integrative Design Lab - Blacksburg - Spring 2020
Neues Museum by Staab Nuremberg, Germany
Located between a street and a plaza in the German city of Nuremberg. The corridor adjacent to the building connects these two, opening the entire face of the building to be seen by the public.
View from the plaza to the Museum
A pedestrian walking through the urban corridor
View from Campbell Av.
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CODE + ZONING ANALYSIS Analyzing building codes and zoning limitations are a good way of finding starting points for the design process. Using the codes for the design of a building does not guarantee a design that is fitting for the context and its surroundings. That is why using certain materials and thinking of where the building is located in order to respond to the context is a substantial part of making a design to be accepted by the city council.
Use Group: Assembly Group A-2
Heights (actual): Street Level: 13 ft First floor: 26 ft Second floor: 39 ft Area (constructed): Street Level: 7250 sq/ft First floor: 6350 sq/ft Second floor: 6350 sq/ft
Construction Type: IIB Occupancy: Restaurant (1800 sq/ft): 120 people Urban Corridor (2250 sq/ft): 70 people Offices (740 sq/ft): 8 people Commercial & Teaching Kitchens (4000 sq/ ft): 25 people Apartments (12700 sq/ft): 70 people Accessibility: 1 Elevator 2 ADA ramps Address: 116 Campbell Ave SE, Roanoke, VA 24011, United States Zoning District: Downtown District (D) Allowable Uses: multifamily dwelling, townhouse, dormitory, group home, hotel, short-term rental, blod bank/plasma center, business service, lab/dental/medical, lab for research, med clinic, offices, vet clinic, community market, caterer, funeral home, body piercing establishment, outdoor advertising sign, mixed-use building, gas station, tattoo parlor, commercial printing, workshop, community center, eating establishment, MICROBRWERY OR MICRO-DISTILLERY NOT ABUTTING A RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT Setbacks: Allowing space for a truck to load onto the duck Parking (required): none Other Requirements: 50% transparency on ground level, 20% on upper floors
SITE CONTEXT / ANALYSIS
The site is an approximately 15,000 SF parcel in Downtown Roanoke between Campbell and Kirk Avenues. Surrounded by different types of commercial/retail spaces, the site has a lot of pedestrian traffic all throughout the year.
SITE DATA COLLECTION Infrastructure Capital assets of Roanoke = environment, buildings/ parks/greenways, technology, transportation, equipment/ vehicles Focus on streets, alleyways, pedestrian walkways Ecology 20,000 people in Roanoke vicinity 4,000 families 2.19 Avg. household size 35.7 median age 63% White, 29% Black, 6.1% Hispanic most people make less than $15,000 income Landscape Summer sun = afternoon shadow from the West Winter sun = shades almost entire existing site Time founded on coal mining industry hosts the oldest farmer’s market originally called Big Lick because the land was first a salt mine and farmer’s would nourish their livestock on the plains Roanoke founded in 1882 Regulation D (downtown district code) zones: residential, multi-purpose, industrial, planned unit development Multi-purpose: convenient and harmonious development, creates jobs in area, preserve historic buildings 85% space must be accessible walls can’t be higher than 3ft when needed for access 30% of land should be landscaped Topography Topography of the greater Roanoke area is rather mountainous, yet the site and the city blocks of Roanoke are relatively flat. The average elevation of Roanoke is 1175ft above sea
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ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM The Roanoke Urban Food Hub program includes:
Restaurant / Retail
Commercial Kitchen
FUNCTION
Public restaurant/coffee shop for the people of Roanoke to enjoy fresh food and have social gatherings.
Kitchen used to prepare meals and process food coming from the community garden for the public and residents of the Roanoke Food Hub.
USERS
The people of Roanoke, tourists and the residents of the building.
Chefs and Roanoke Food Hub service members.
CHARACTER
Covered by glass walls, the restaurant overlooks Campbell St. allowing the people inside to have a view to the outside, where pedestrian movement acts as a background. Social gatherings are going to be happening in this space.
Located on the street level, the commercial kitchen is connected to the restaurant by a service corridor. Glass openings allow sunlight to come in form the southeast.
ADJACENCIES
Outdoor dining area and Campbell St. sidewalk.
Teaching kitchen, offices and connected to the restaurant.
Restaurant / Retail space Commercial Kitchen Teaching Kitchen Outdoor space / Urban corridor 6 S Apartments 6 M Apartments 4 L Apartments Community Garden
Urban corridor
Teaching Kitchen
Apartments
Offices
FUNCTION
Connection between Campbell and Kirk Ave. Space for sitting areas and landscaping. Acts as a main access to different parts of the building.
Space meant for the community to participate in the food hub by learning the process of the food produced.
Housing for people lookUsed for reception and adminising to live in the historic tration of the building. district of Roanoke within a mix-use and collaborative building.
USERS
Public, residents and service members.
Community, service members and chefs.
Residents.
Semi-public, collaborative, loud.
Private, quiet, access to Collaborative, semi-public, quiet. views of the mountains and social gatherings on the street level of the building.
Urban corridor, To-Go window and Commercial Kitchen.
Stairwell, elevator.
CHARACTER
ADJACENCIES
Public, social gatherings, loud, landscape decorations.
To-Go window, teaching kitchen, commercial kitchen, access to the restaurant and residencies.
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Service members and customers.
Restaurant entry, access to apartments, urban corridor.
1 Restaurant / retail 2 Offices 3 Service corridor 4 Commercial Kitchen 5 Teaching Kitchen 6 Community garden
SITE PLAN
AC
The first floor plan is the only one where the public is allowed to access, that is why it is important to make design decisions in order to create a place where social gatherings could happen and give generous amount of space to sit and enjoy. The relantionship between the interior and the exterior of the building on the street level is also an opportunity to express the mix-use quality of this building. Placing glass walls in some areas of the building to give the public the opportunity to know what is happening on the interior of the building.
AA
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Retail space on the urban corridor meant to work as a To-Go window where residents and the public can buy groceries, coffee, etc.
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Perspective from Kirv Av. looking at the south face of the building
FLOOR PLAN
AB
The second and third floor plan house the three different sizes of apartments. The smallest apartments (6) are facing Campbell Ave. There are 6 medium sized apartments that face the East. Lastly, the 2 biggest apartments on the southernmost part of the building.
Perspective of the inside of the largest apartment of the building containing 2 complete bedrooms, a kitchen, balcony, tv-room, dining area and small library.
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Perspective of the inside of the smallest apartment of the building containing 1 complete bedroom, tv-room, kitchen and small library space. This apartment overlooks Campbell St.
EGRESS & ACCESIBILITY Diagram showing the movement for the public, residents and service through the floor plans.
ELEVATIONS North Elevation The three elevations of the Roanoke Urban Food Hub have different material expressions. Starting with the brick-cladded north facade that continues the same language as the old buildings of the Historic District of Roanoke. With a different approach which consists on dividing the facade into three different angles to create a break of the urban wall and continue with the same angle on the lower part of the building to open the space for the public.
39’ 0” 26’ 0” 13’ 0”
The south facade has a different approach. Using metal panels and small wood columns are used in order to create a break in the brick facade of the building. By using a different type of material, the design suggests a different type of use which is used only by residents, service members, as well, it contains the loading duck.
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South Elevation
East Elevation
The East faรงade expresses most of what happens throughout the building. Starting with the public space stretched through the urban corridor and its separation with metal frames to the apartment balconies on top, creating a social dynamic between residents and the public. The southern most part of this elevation houses the steps to walk onto Kirk Ave. and the community garden.
Section AC
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BUILDING SECTIONS Diagramatic sections showing the vertical relantionships between the different programs inside the building.
Section AA
Restaurant / retail Kitchens
Apartments
Section AB
STRUCTURAL The main structure of the building consists of a steel frame covered by different types of veneers, insulative elements, masonry, and glass walls/windows. The use of a steel frame allows bigger openings in the building to be designed, giving sunlight an opportunity to penetrate with less obstacles.
MATERIAL
The use of brick on the exterior veneer of the building is used in order to continue the history of the use of brick on the faces of the walls of the city of Roanoke.
Wood is used for some of the openings in the windows, and also used for the exterior veneer in some parts of the building. Wood is also used in the interior walls and cabinets of the apartments.
Metal pannels are used in the exterior of the building to support the wood members and to create a break in the brick walls. Black metal is also used in some structural frame members on the urban corridor to give a sense of exterior room.
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