Urban Voids Competition: Program Analysis

PROJECTS NEAR THE TOP OF THE WINNERS LIST WERE FRAMEWORKS THAT ALLOWED FOR GROWTH, WITH REFERENCE TO THE LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD.

GREEN

Urban arboretum – forest
Continuous green ribbons, programmed vertical planes
Farmland, parcels classified into ‘readiness’ and are phased into remediation
Connecting the green, ecologies

STREAMS

Vacant Lots = new urban watersheds – urban voids act as green filters, byways for new urban streams.
Fertilization, local systems – open framework to reveal Philadelphia underpinnings, ridges, streams, revitalize dormant space, capitalizing on nodes of activity
Revive streams – bioremediation to clean land and make it viable for future use

FRAMEWORK(S)

Supermarket of spaces: spaces are exposed publicly, physically inside a city store or virtually through an online catalog, where anyone can look up the options and take them for free to the play where they are needed. (framework for spaces?)
Fabrication and assembly of simple construction modules that can be placed within vacant lots

LOCALITY

Conventional park, garden, recreational programs (urban programs to take advantage of the social, cultural, economic and institutional infrastructures already present?) Locality
Draw upon history, commerce and infrastructure of the past (Brewerytown), program that reflects this
Layers of Program: Storm water layer, agricultural layer, recreational layer

SUBURBAN / URBAN

Suburbia combined with urbanism, organizing urban grid but less dense

EVENTS

Landscape of events
waterways, economic nodes (of activity), public realm, infrastructure

MISCELLANEOUS

Typologies – gap tooth, lone pine, valley desert
Glass boxes  - micro climates
Deform the void – mold, distort, open