AECOM Urban SOS: Reimagining the American Dream
AECOM Urban SOS Finalist, Fall 2010
Selected Press:
AECOM Urban SOS / World Architecture Festival 2010
Selected Press:
AECOM Urban SOS / World Architecture Festival 2010
Build A Better 'Burb: Upcycling 2.0
First Place Winner: Upcycling 2.0
Long Island Index and Rauch Foundation Sponsored Competition:
Team: Ryan Lovett, Patrick Cobb, John Brent Simons
Upcycling 2.0 is an incremental development approach that combines the positive innovations from both urban centers AND suburban neighborhoods. We refute the idea that density and privacy are mutually exclusive.
Through the strategic market driven acquisition and re-appropriation of property, our proposal encourages interaction and desirability via new community associations that pool and manage funds for community improvements and amenities. This in turn closes economic, environmental, and social loops, while increasing civic participation, awareness, and accountability. There would be a direct correlation between your money and your neighborhood.
Our proposal targets the ubiquitous suburban typologies: The single family detached house, strip mall, train station, street medians, big boxes, and vast seas of parking lots.
By employing a series of different re-appropriations of these typologies, three distinct zones emerge over time: An agricultural network that follows major auto-oriented developments, a mass transit-oriented network which would create regional scale economic centers, and finally a series of mixed-use neighborhood enclaves, which feature new public amenities that minimize the need for extra car trips.
The new strategy can be deployed on two fronts: The private sector can slowly acquire privately owned property, and in turn set up new rental types and housing associations, and the public sector, which could incentivize new development and mandate all new construction be more mixed-use and promote land-use equity. This bottom-up parcelized approach organically creates a myriad of densities, architectural styles, scales, affordability levels, and ultimately a unique identity that can change over time.
Selected Press:
Architect (AIA) Magazine: Start a Revolution
About the Competition:
Build A Better Burb
Long Island Index and Rauch Foundation Sponsored Competition:
Team: Ryan Lovett, Patrick Cobb, John Brent Simons
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| A New Finance and Planning Mechanism for Community Improvement |
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| New Opportunities for Civic Amenities, Developments, and Architectural Typologies |
By employing a series of different re-appropriations of these typologies, three distinct zones emerge over time: An agricultural network that follows major auto-oriented developments, a mass transit-oriented network which would create regional scale economic centers, and finally a series of mixed-use neighborhood enclaves, which feature new public amenities that minimize the need for extra car trips.
The new strategy can be deployed on two fronts: The private sector can slowly acquire privately owned property, and in turn set up new rental types and housing associations, and the public sector, which could incentivize new development and mandate all new construction be more mixed-use and promote land-use equity. This bottom-up parcelized approach organically creates a myriad of densities, architectural styles, scales, affordability levels, and ultimately a unique identity that can change over time.
Selected Press:
Architect (AIA) Magazine: Start a Revolution
About the Competition:
Build A Better Burb
Development Studio: New Media Epic-Center
What:
A mixed use mega-project consisting of three mixed use New York City blocks immediately south of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment District on the west side of Manhattan.
Who:
Critic Jared Della Valle of Alloy Development LLC (Formerly of D+B Architecture), Summer 2010
How:
Through the NYC Economic Development Corporation (Media Lab), Tax Increment Financing (Infrastructure), and Private Investment (Commercial & Resident
Why:
There is an ongoing trend in the Tri-State area towards mega projects that are facing stiff financial problems, inadequate provisions for a diversity of programs, and a lack of vision for keeping the region at the forefront of economic competitiveness. A mega-project is usually a once and a lifetime opportunity for a city, setting the stage for a new identity and experience. As arguably one if the most daunting types of development, in all of its complexity, and long timeline, the mega-project necessitates a strong vision that can pull seemingly intractable differences together. Typically these kinds of endeavors become so compromised and watered down that they fail to capitalize on the uniqueness of scale and impact of the project.
Questioning the notion of a "Loss Leader"
LA Forum Dingbat 2.0: Sustantiating Surface
LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Sponsored Competition: Dingbat 2.0: Substantiating Surface
3rd Place Winner
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