4 Bankhead Courts Atlanta, GA Urban Design Studio 09 - 11/2018
Group | Debmalya Ghosh, Yasmeen Alawamleh, Jingxin Xu, Yeinn Oh Participation | Analysis, Bankhead Courts Masterplan, Board Layout
The purpose of this studio was to learn and implement stormwater management in a critically challenged sites in NPU-G. The Bankhead Courts and Industrial Park are both located in the bottom of the proctor creek watershed, in front of Chattahooche River, which means the site needs to deal with all the stormwater runoff that comes all the way from downtown Atlanta. Bankhead Courts has a valley shaped topography inside that gathers the large amount of stormwater coming from the surrounding impervious surfaces. The Bankhead Courts is not only interfered by the velocity of the stormwater, but also is challenged by the quality of the water coming in.
The street framework is aiming to the three goals: 1. to connect the community to the river. 2. to let the stormwater clean up by bioswales and filtration park. 3. to clean up the stormwater coming from outside of the site. In order to obtain the three goals, the streets were designed to connect the people and the water. It draws the water and send it to the centeral filtration park, as it does to the people too. The filtration park in the middle of the site is the connection of the site and the Chattahooche river. It serves as a trailhead where it leads the people to the river. The Bankhead Courts is now the starting point that connects the community to the river.
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