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Proposals for urban interventions in Philadelphia
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Borderline Metropolis | Philadelphia | Port Richmond
Borderline Metropolis | Philadelphia |Port Richmond
|Trinity Team|
HUGO TRISMEGISTUS LEMES
HOANG VIET NGUYEN
YELIZAVETA LISA NESTEROVA
ARCH 4101 - FALL 2010_______________________________________________________________INSTRUCTORS:
VAL WARKECLAUDIA CLEMENTEFRANCESCO ISIDORI
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Philadelphias Railroads: Penns AntithesisWilliam Penn designed Philadelphia with the Hippodami-an, Roman castrum plan in mind. This gridded plan, sup-posed to off er large square open landscaped spaces for its inhabitants, started to become quickly fragmented as people settled along the waterfronts, and as industrializa-tion, and particularly the advent of the railroads, initiated the subdivision of the city into organic parcels.
Railroad competitioon led to increasing demand for space along the rivers and the docks, causing chaotic pat-terns and borders to emerge.
Stations sprouted throughout the city as railroad com-panies, specially Reading and Pennsylvania, competed for power in a way that resembled the architectural feud amongst medieval families of towns like San Gimigniano. Reading and Pennsylvannia built lavish grand central sta-tions located almost adjancent to each other, and equally vied for the control of the docks. The progression and consequences of this capitalist greed can be best seen in historic maps of Philadelphia. Upon studying these maps one begins to see that the railroads caused phenomena that together can be understood as a collective antithesis to the original conception of Philadelphia.
TIMELINE - 19th CENTURY
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19th CENTURY MODELS
19th CENTURY FRAGMENTATION
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19th CENTURY RAILROAD COMPANIES
19th CENTURY RAILROAD COMPANIES
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TIMELINE -20th CENTURY
20th CENTTURY - 1903
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20th CENTURY - 1924
20th CENTURY - COMPETITION
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20th CENTURY DETAIL
19th + 20th CENTURY
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PORT RICHMOND STUDIES
Stripped Urban Agriculture
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Borderline Metropolis | Philadelphia | Port Richmond
Borderline Metropolis | Philadelphia | Port Richmond
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Initial Diagrams
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Lisa NesterovaInitial Proposal
Sectional Render
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Siite Diagrams
Sections through the Site
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Final Project Proposal
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HIGH TIDE LOW TIDE
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Site Photos
Site Photos
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Borderline Metropolis | Philadelphia | Port Richmond
URBAN VOIDS ETYMOLOGY
VietFound Artifacts
HORIZONTAL SPINE VERTICAL SPINE CLUSTERING PERMEATING
URBAN VOIDS ETYMOLOGY
CORNERING MAZE CHUNK CENTRALISING
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STRATEGY
URBAN VOID INTERPRETATION INTERPOLATION BY EXCAVATION
INTERPOLATION BY EXCAVATION
SITE PLAN
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SECTIONS
SECTION THROUGH TUNNEL
SECTION THROUGH COURTYARDS
SITE SECTION
COURTYARD VIEW
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COURTYARD VIEW
COURTYARD VIEW
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Borderline Metropolis | Philadelphia | Port Richmond
Borderline Metropolis | Philadelphia | Port Richmond
Borderline Metropolis | Philadelphia | Port Richmond
Borderline Metropolis | Philadelphia | Port Richmond
HugoProposing Paradise
PremiseIn the long existence of humanity, at least before the demotratization of a derived capitalist form (Las Vegas et al.) the idea of paradise has always been exclusive, only for a certain number of people, an elite chosen or fortunate group of deities, of royals, and even of assassins (as we learn from the legends concerning the Hashashin, for example).
Port Richmond has been everything except paradise. It has seen the voracious and greedy expansion of the railroads and coal docks, and the interventions of the shipping industry for two centuries. And more recently, it has been left in disrepair, serving as a perfect representa-tive and refl ection of the distopic local neighborhood in Philadelphia.
Despite the fi rst impressions, Port Richmond is still very much active. CSX trains run through the site daily, and the young use the area for diversion and delinquent behavior. The environment, however, lacks such aspects as vibrance, soul, harmony, and happiness.
An urban intervention for the area would have to be a dramatic one in order for it to aff ect the immediate sur-roundings. It would have to be an idea having a similar caliber to that of the second man as noted by Edmund Bacon, and architecturally represented at the Piazza An-unziatta. In other words, it would have to be a proposal that could essentially transcend and, in a few genera-tions, enhance the area programatically, aesthetically, and fi nancially.
It is interesting to note that William Penn symbolically named his experiment after a biblical city which would be spared during the apocalypse. The current conditions of the city are far from utopic, and one could argue that there are many reasons to save the marble and glass city, and the cradle of American Independence from self-destruction. Perhaps one possibility, at least for the Port Richmond waterfront, would be to bring in some form of paradisical intervention.
Left: Eden as depicted in the fi rst or left panel of Boschs The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych
MERGING OF AXES
PORT RICHMOND
Border TalkThe entire research and form creation during this se-mester has focused on metropolitan borders, divisions, fragmentation, and a plethora of emergent phenomena.
As an extension to the railroad studies, I decided to focus on the docks of Port Richmond - for many years dominat-ed and expanded by the coal industry and the Reading railroad company.
Architecture Derived from Existing Axes and Ruins
Axes created by the docks and the streets, of diff ereing angles, confl ict at interstate 95. The design intervention tries to merge these confl icting axes by their extension into one another. These paths, while linking the docks to the public realm, also enclose the area through natural green walls and public pathways (the idea of the enclo-sure linking back to that of the enclosed paradise, and at the same time also to the idealized democratization of public space ingrained int he city of Philadelphia since its conception by William Penn).
The architecture is derived from the existing architecture of the ruins, featuring repetitious, industrial modular sequences such as covered pergolas.
The progams ar e mostly recreational, athletic facilities - featuring saunas, sporting courts, pools, gyms, restau-rants, and gardens.
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DERIVATION OF ARCHIITECTURE
AXON: 1/128 = 1-0
SECTION: 1/128 = 10
PLAN
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PORT RICHMOND DOCK CONCEPT
PORT RICHMOND DOCK CONCEPT
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SHADOW PLAN
SHADOWS THROUGH THE SOLSTICES
MODELS
SITE MODEL
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MODELS
PIER 3 MODEL
MODELS
PIER 3 MODEL
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MODELS
PIER 3 MODEL
RENDERINGS
SITE PERSPECTIVE
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RENDERINGS
MAIN DERIVATED AXIS: PERGOLA AND RUNNELS
RENDERINGS
MAIN DERIVATED AXIS: TOWARDS DELAWARE RIVER COURSE
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