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UVA ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL LAR 7100 / 8100 CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY MARKET: GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE + PUBLIC SPACE

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A DRAFT of UVA LAR studio student work from fall 2012. Student proposals for Charlottesville's City Market, creatively imagining intersections of green infrastructure and public space.

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  • UVA ARCHITECTURE SCHOOLLAR 7100 / 8100CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY MARKET: GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE +PUBLIC SPACE

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    Charlottesville City Market

    Syllabus Brief

    The Charlottesville City Market is a temporary pub-lic space that exists on Saturday mornings from April through November/December. For almost two decades, it has been housed on a city-owned parking lot located one block from the Pedestrian Mall on Main Street (de-signed by Halprin Associates) with no water or electrical infrastructure, and no gathering space for customers to eat or to talk with friends. The market merchants, and many of their patrons, seek a permanent site for the market with the sort of amenities one would expect from a significant urban, public space.

    This studio asks you to select a new site, propose a new vision, and to develop design details for the City Market. Your proposal should be:a key public space that complements, extends and cri-tiques existing public spaces downtown including the Mall, Lee Park, Jackson Park, and Courthouse Squarea contributor to the new Charlottesville Green Infra-structure plan (2012-13)an extension of the Downtown Mall (1976) + Urban Design Plan (1974), Lawrence Halprin and Associates a component of the proposed Market District (2011) by David ONeill and Market Central

    To this end, the class will explore market proposals that improve the network of public spaces that currently exist, increase connectivity between various neighbor-hoods surrounding downtown, catalyze mixed-use de-velopments that include affordable and market-rate housing, improve the ecological performance of the citys landscape infrastructure, and host other public functions and events when the market is not open. Each of the three projects will include site research and design prop-ositions. The first will focus on small-scale landscape el-

    ements and spaces that have big impacts on character of public space. The second will explore the relationship between several alternatives for the market and larger urban and regional systems. The third will cross scales affording opportunities to imagine the entanglements of experience, material assembly, events, functional logistics, urban form, and landscape change.

    Public spaceWe will interrogate the role of public spaces within cit-ies, and speculate about what role a new public space can play within the City of Charlottesville. The city has numerous public spaces downtown, such as Courthouse Square, Jackson Park, Lee Park, the Mall, and McGuffey Park. As varied as they are in age and character, they are limited in their conception and enactment of the public: a space of government and power, two spaces of com-memoration to Civil War generals, a space of cafes and strolling, and a space for childrens play. The studio will ask you to move beyond the conception of the public realm as a symbolic space, a space of private consump-tion, a single age or income leisure space. It will require you to imagine a public realm that is meaningful because of the way it creates recognition scenes of otherness; how it is lived, appropriated, and altered; as well it per-forms a functions shared by the communityecological-ly, politically, socially.

    Green Infrastructure PlanIn 2010, the EPA established the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), a watershed-wide ini-tiative to reduce pollutants and sediments into the Bay. This requires the City of Charlottesville to meet higher water quality and quantity criteria; as such the city is in the beginning stages of a green infrastructure plan. This plan has the potential to alter design and planning at all scales of the city landscapefrom the sub-watershed

    and the stream valley to collection basin, the sidewalk curb-and-gutter, and the sidewalk paving detail. Proto-typical designs for retrofitting existing city properties (parking lots, medians, tree plantings, drain inlets, reten-tion basins) as well as the design of new properties will contribute to this new ecological initiative.It is not unusual for cities to adopt green infrastructure plans. But few have been integrated into existing public space networks, or have incorporated changing concep-tions of public space. This studio will ask you to consider the new City Market as an opportunity to bring these social and ecological agendas together into a hybrid that is particular to Charlottesville and its location in the Piedmont.

    Market DistrictA citys market can be much more than a place to buy local foods and artisan crafts. It can be a social space and public place that complements and challenges the normative types of courthouse square, neighborhood playground and pastoral park. A citys market is a dy-namic space, often ephemeral, and frequently co-existing with other activities. It is temporal as much as spatial, and social as well as commercial. It gathers a citys cit-izens together in routines and cycles that intermingle the bio- physical, the economic and the cultural. In this regard, a city market is inextricable from the process-es, exchanges, flows and rhythms of larger metropolitan networks, including transit systems, public spaces, food production and consumption, and ecosystem services. A Market District that includes several types of mar-kets--exterior and interior, produce, baked goods and artisan crafts, daily, weekly and seasonaldistributed across a matrix of structures, spaces, streets, blocks, and interstitial placeshas the potential to transform the rhythms and practices of everyday life in Charlottesville and its rural hinterland.

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    GARRET ST EASTRebekah (18) Grey (20)Sarah (24)Chris

    GARRET ST WESTNate (8)Kate and Rachel (10)

    2ND STREETIsaac and Michael (86)Jake and Gwen (90)David (94)Katie (98)John (102)Rae

    FRIENDSHIP COURTJames and Dani (34) Katherine (38) Chelsea (42) Asa and Harriett (46)Brian and Young (50)Hong (54)Dasha (58)Yoyo (62)Nini (66) Jessie (70)

    DOWNTOWN MALLLingyi and Isaac (76)Luhan (80)

    Project Locations and Pages

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    Thank you to our critics: Greg Bleem Beata Corcoran Teresa Gali-IzardKathy GalvinBreck GastingerMark Klopfer Mark Miller Brian OsbornEuegen RyangMark WatsonMabel Wilson

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    Garrett Street West

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    The farmers market is both an ephemeral commons and a market-place, owned by a heterogeneous public of buyers and sellers that gather at regular intervals to exchange goods. The commonsone of the earliest forms of public spaceis a piece of ground or a resource that is shared or commonly owned. A marketplace or economy is a price-based system of preference and exchange.One of the greatest barriers to managing common resources and markets is a lack of information. Paying for the resources of the commons (water, electricity) has a tendency to fall disproportion-ately on one subset of the co-owners through vendor fees and/or high market prices. Without a shared understanding of costs and profits from the commons, it is nearly impossible to make and enforce collective decisions or share the burden of co-ownership. This inequality drives market prices up for all and drives away potential co-owners (vendors and buyers of limited means).The proposed market, a canopied plaza, addresses this lack of in-formation through physical organization of the market by product type into three zonesartisan goods, prepared food, and agricul-tural products. One 8 tall exchange kiosk that monitors market prices and group spending trends with a common market cur-rency/membership card is located near storm-water outflows in each zone. This card and exchange kiosk allow for shared spatial and monetary decision-making by vendors and consumers. Final-ly, the market card acts as an access card for use of the market resources (electricity, water) throughout the week in one of 14 canopied shelters shared by 4-8 market vendors on market day. On non-market days, the movable benches and tables in the cano-pied shelters provide shared public, flexible seating for customers of adjacent restaurants, residents, and the general public.The idea of the commons and marketplace are also currently be-ing explored in the context of managing watersheds that are, in the majority, privately owned. Cap-and-trade market-based ini-tiatives (like those currently implemented for greenhouse gas emissions) are currently being explored as an alternative to pub-licly-funded urban and rural hydrologic management. Monitoring and sub-watershed collectives are seen as key parts of cap-and-trade storm-water markets.

    The proposed market positions itself within a future of cap-and-trade urban hydrologic management by monitoring storm-water outflows from each product area and from the market as a whole at a 10 tall market information kiosk adjacent to a storm-water observation amphitheater. This kiosk and amphitheater encour-age decision-making about storm-water management within the commons and designate the market as a hydrologic com-mons ready to share the cost of protecting the Chesapeake Bay. This idea of a hydrologic commons could be implemented at any scalefrom the house or common-market cluster to the Pollocks Branch sub-watershed. At the urban scale, the area now designat-ed as friendship court could become a new hydrologic commons for the downtown mall, Belmont, and a new high density develop-ment corridor running from central place to the IX building.

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    GRADIENT MARKETSKate Hayes + Rachel StevensCity Market StudioCritics: Beth Meyer + Leena Cho

    The new City Market will serve as a space of public life and exchange that celebrates the seasonal flux of a produce market, and its interface with the dynamics of public life in Charlottesville and the ecological context of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This market design takes the discrete and bounded forms of points and lines, from streets to stormwater pipes, and opens those forms up, exposing process and creating a gradient of experience that the market and the users of this public space will inhabit. A new city market on Garrett Street will absorb and augment the public space needs and uses in the downtown area, acting as a zone of exchange between people, water and vegetation where the rituals of daily life in the form of streetscape, market district and park become embedded in the landscape dynamics of Charlottesville and the greater region.

    Like the flooding banks of a streambed, the City Market gradient will expand and contract based on the seasons, attendance and programs. A seasonal produce market occupies the most dynamic space, shifting based on the goods being brought to market and the seasonal changes in temperature and moisture that signal changes in produce freshness and availability. Educational and community meeting spaces support the market as places for cooking classes and workshops during market hours, and community gathering spaces for non-market hours. Rainfall and water storage on site serves as an example of decentralized water infrastructure, and also as a dynamic site feature, from runnels and a sculp-tural ground plane, to a plaza of misters in the summer and ice-skating in the winter. This market would act as a catalyst for a network of public space and green infrastructure that would operate from a local to regional scale.

    This market will also form a place in the civic and environmental consciousness of the city. A key challenge before the city at the moment, is how it will be able to achieve new, tougher standards on water quality, as a result of Chesapeake Bay legislation. The overlap of hydrological gradients with gradients of public life, make the market a joyful public space, where the role of the landscape as infrastructure for social and ecological life is understood and celebrated.

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    MATERIAL GRADIENTSMATERIAL GRADIENTSMATERIAL GRADIENTS

    The new City Market will serve as a space of public life and ex-change that celebrates the seasonal flux of a produce market, and its interface with the dynamics of public life in Charlottesville and the ecological context of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This market design takes the discrete and bounded forms of points and lines, from streets to stormwater pipes, and opens those forms up, exposing process and creating a gradient of experience that the market and the users of this public space will inhabit. A new city market on Garrett Street will absorb and augment the public space needs and uses in the downtown area, acting as a zone of exchange between people, water and vegetation where the rituals of daily life in the form of streetscape, market district and park become embedded in the landscape dynamics of Charlottesville and the greater region.Like the flooding banks of a streambed, the City Market gradient will expand and contract based on the seasons, attendance and programs. A seasonal produce market occupies the most dynamic space, shifting based on the goods being brought to market and the seasonal changesin temperature and moisture that signal changes in produce freshness and availability. Educational and community meet-ing spaces support the market as places for cooking classes and workshops during market hours, and community gathering spac-es for non-market hours. Rainfall and water storage on site serves as an example of decentralized water infrastructure, and also as a dynamic site feature, from runnels and a sculp- tural ground plane, to a plaza of misters in the summer and ice-skating in the winter. This market would act as a catalyst for a network of public space and green infrastructure that would operate from a local to regional scale.This market will also form a place in the civic and environmental consciousness of the city. A key challenge before the city at the moment, is how it will be able to achieve new, tougher standards on water quality, as a result of Chesapeake Bay legislation. The overlap of hydrological gradients with gradients of public life, make the market a joyful public space, where the role of the land-scape as infrastructure for social and ecological life is understood and celebrated.

    Kate Hayes. Rachel Stevens.Gradient Marketst

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    Garrett Street East

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    The architecture of global logistics relies on various strate-gies of ordering units, aggregates, and zones. Maximum effi-ciency in the movement of resources from point of origin to point of destination governs the form and structure of these spaces. In most cases, the design is fully optimized and auto-mated, derived from an algorithm and scaled to accommo-date a range of fixed dimensions such as the turning radius of a driverless forklift, the length and width of an ISO-ap-proved pallet, and the height of storage racks.This project proposes a new method of order for an exist-ing logistics space in Charlottesville: Ferguson Enterprises on the east end of Garrett Street. Currently, the site oc-cupies approximately 100,000 square feet bounded on the north by a rail line, on the south by Garrett Street, on the west by condominiums, and on the east by 6th St SE. By reorganizing the spacing, lighting and stacking of stored and in-transit construction materials and utilizing adjacent emp-ty lots across 6th St SE, the stockyard is now capable of serving a double- function: construction materials stockyard by day, and city market by night. Major circulation routes through the stockyard/market are determined by the turn-ing radii of large trucks, while aisles are scaled to fit forklifts. At the unit scale, a stacked pallet designates a market stall. At the aggregate scale, pallets of like materials are arranged in varying heights and orientations depending on the length of time that they are destined for yard storage providing a diversity of layout and display options for market vendors. At the zone scale: families of materials occupy varying topo-graphic and ground surface conditions throughout the site that are best matched to the storage capabilities of a par-ticular material, creating a series of differing experiences for market visitors.Formal qualities that happen to appeal at the human-scale are seemingly coincidental and secondary to the needs of the movement of resources. Yet, they are vital for the smooth operation of the site, ensuring that any potential conflicts rooted in the structure of control are masked, minimized, or immobilized by material and aesthetics. As functionalist and naturalistic arguments re-enter [landscape] architectural projects as sufficient justification for a broad range of major interventions in public urban space, it is helpful analyze the

    normative functionalist spatial typology par excellence the construction materials stockyard. Through the process of design development, this proposal investigates the limits of functionalism, order, mobilization and control; and the inci-dental human-scale forms that result from these intersect-ing limits.

    Rebekah Dye

    The architecture of global logistics relies on various strategies of ordering units, aggregates, and zones. Maximum efficiency in the movement of resources from point of origin to point of destination governs the form and structure of these spaces. In most cases, the design is fully optimized and automated, derived from an algorithm and scaled to accommodate a range of fixed dimensions such as the turning radius of a driverless forklift, the length and width of an ISO-approved pallet, and the height of storage racks.

    This project proposes a new method of order for an existing logistics space in Charlottesville: Ferguson Enterprises on the east end of Garrett Street. Currently, the site occupies approximately 100,000 square feet bounded on the north by a rail line, on the south by Garrett Street, on the west by condominiums, and on the east by 6th St SE. By reorganizing the spacing, lighting and stacking of stored and in-transit construction materials and utilizing adjacent empty lots across 6th St SE, the stockyard is now capable of serving a double-function: construction materials stockyard by day, and city market by night. Major circulation routes through the stockyard/market are determined by the turning radii of large trucks, while aisles are scaled to fit forklifts. At the unit scale, a stacked pallet designates a market stall. At the aggregate scale, pallets of like materials are arranged in varying heights and orientations depending on the length of time that they are destined for yard storage providing a diversity of layout and display options for market vendors. At the zone scale: families of materials occupy varying topographic and ground surface conditions throughout the site that are best matched to the storage capabilities of a particular material, creating a series of differing experiences for market visitors.

    Formal qualities that happen to appeal at the human-scale are seemingly coincidental and secondary to the needs of the movement of resources. Yet, they are vital for the smooth operation of the site, ensuring that any potential conflicts rooted in the structure of control are masked, minimized, or immobilized by material and aesthetics. As functionalist and naturalistic arguments re-enter [landscape] architectural projects as sufficient justification for a broad range of major interventions in public urban space, it is helpful analyze the normative functionalist spatial typology par excellence the construction materials stockyard. Through the process of design development, this proposal investigates the limits of functionalism, order, mobilization and control; and the incidental human-scale forms that result from these intersecting limits.

    existing stockyard site with locations and arrangement of stored materials

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    grassy lot (recently demolished building)

    METHODS OF ORDER // LAR 8010 // Rebekah Dye

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    The new Charlottesville Market is located along 6th Street, start-ing at the Transit Center and moving South to the IX property. The new market functions as a place of collection, standing in contrast to the current slope, rife with displacement and separation from urban renewal.The heart of the market, located at the intersection of 6th Street and Garrett Street, is fed through the gravity of water and feet, generating an identifiable movement corridor. It is in this swale that the market coalesces as a place. The combination of flow and collection serves to bridge the two racially and economically di-vided communities to the North and South.The intersection is nestled within four corners, each topograph-ically manipulated to blur the distinction between parcel and street. Vendor stalls and public space are built into thin terraces, splaying like a deck of cards.Located at the top of the Chesapeake and Pollacks Branch water-sheds, the site plays a critical role in filtering the first flush.The new Charlottesville Market is a placeof human and hydrological attraction, collection, and conveyence. It reclaims a slope intended to isolate and segregate and creates a thriving public space.

    Grey ElamHyrologic Commons

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    SITING DIAGRAM INTERSECTION DIAGRAM POOLING DIAGRAM THRESHOLD DIAGRAM

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    PLUGGING INTO HYDRO HEAD-WATERS

    CONCEPT DIAGRAM: POOLING

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    The new Charlottesville Market is located along 6th Street, starting at the Transit Center and moving South to the IX property. The new market functions as a place of collection, standing in contrast to the current slope, rife with displacement and separation from urban renewal.

    The heart of the market, located at the intersection of 6th Street and Garrett Street, is fed through the gravity of water and feet, generating an identifiable movement corridor. It is in this swale that the market coalesces as a place. The combination of flow and collection serves to bridge the two racially and economically divided communities to the North and South.

    The intersection is nestled within four corners, each topographically manipulated to blur the distinction between parcel and street. Vendor stalls and public space are built into thin terraces, splaying like a deck of cards.

    Located at the top of the Chesapeake and Pollacks Branch watersheds, the site plays a critical role in filtering the first flush.

    The new Charlottesville Market is a place of human and hydrological attraction, collection, and conveyence. It reclaims a slope intended to isolate and segregate and creates a thriving public space.

    CHARLOTTESVILLE MARKET STUDIOCreating Concentration Through

    Collection and ConveyanceGrey Elam | 7010 | Fall 2012

    INTERSECTION AS CENTER OF HUMAN

    DENSITY

    MARKET AS PLACEMARKET FORM: SPLAYED TOPO

    PLUGGING INTO HYDRO HEAD-WATERS

    CONCEPT DIAGRAM: POOLING

    PLUGGING INTO TRANSIT

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    WATERS

    The new Charlottesville Market is located along 6th Street, starting at the Transit Center and moving South to the IX property. The new market functions as a place of collection, standing in contrast to the current slope, rife with displacement and separation from urban renewal.

    The heart of the market, located at the intersection of 6th Street and Garrett Street, is fed through the gravity of water and feet, generating an identifiable movement corridor. It is in this swale that the market coalesces as a place. The combination of flow and collection serves to bridge the two racially and economically divided communities to the North and South.

    The intersection is nestled within four corners, each topographically manipulated to blur the distinction between parcel and street. Vendor stalls and public space are built into thin terraces, splaying like a deck of cards.

    Located at the top of the Chesapeake and Pollacks Branch watersheds, the site plays a critical role in filtering the first flush.

    The new Charlottesville Market is a place of human and hydrological attraction, collection, and conveyence. It reclaims a slope intended to isolate and segregate and creates a thriving public space.

    CHARLOTTESVILLE MARKET STUDIOCreating Concentration Through

    Collection and ConveyanceGrey Elam | 7010 | Fall 2012

    INTERSECTION AS CENTER OF HUMAN

    DENSITY

    MARKET AS PLACEMARKET FORM: SPLAYED TOPO

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    Observations of the existing location of Charlottesvilles City Mar-ket reveal that the space poorly accommodates the market. While the parking lot block currently hosting the market is convenient-ly located for the downtown community and enforces a density that helps maintain activity, the location suffers because of lack of space that can be claimed by people who are waiting, eating, rest-ing, playing (public space), and the lack of amenities like shade, benches, drinking fountains.Charlottesvilles other urban commercial plaza-type space, the adjacent Downtown Mall, shares a similar lack of accommodation for the person who is not actively buying or selling. Both places are arranged as tightly-packed commercial areas with the space remaining nearly exclusively dedicated to thoroughfares that cor-ral potential consumers from vendor to vendor.My proposal for the new City Market interdigitates commer-cial space with space for people not actively consuming (public space). Intertwining attractive places to rest, talk, eat, and play, with vendors creates a vibrant hybrid space that strengthens the attractiveness of both components. This alternative setting en-courages people to stay, enjoy, and exchange rather than get in and get out. Further extending the duration of the market expe-rience, I propose stretching the market along Garrett Street (par-allel to and three blocks south of the Mall, ~0.4 miles long) with nodes on either end. With improved pedestrian connections be-tween Garrett Street and the Mall, the new market on Garrett will not only extend the pedestrian experience of the market, but also that of the downtown.The proposed market has three primary characters: Market West will host a covered market (seasonally active) and park with earthwork amphitheater seating and stage; Market East will host an indoor market (year-round), plaza, community center, commu-nity garden, and playground; and the Market Walk that connects the two will have live-work housing on the south side (currently Friendship Court) and temporary market on the north side. Gar-rett Street, currently a two-lane road with parallel street parking on both sides, will narrowed by filling in half of the parking spaces with mini parks encouraging an active and social street life.

    Market East is further developed to reinforce teaching, learning, playing, engaging, watching, eating, repairing, growing, and ex-changing. The indoor market, two community buildings, and a berm frame three sides of the central plaza; the fourth opens to the street and meets the existing bike cooperative, community garden (proposed), and playground (proposed). The plaza var-ies in ground surface material (paving, lawn, wooden bridge, tall grasses) and shape (level, mounded, sunken), enclosure (building, walls, berms, tall grasses, grove) and canopies (solid, slatted, veg-etated) to create a variety of microclimates that will appeal to a range of people in a range of climatic conditions.

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    Existing Market48,000 sq ft

    Maplewood cemetary150,500 sq ft

    Downtown Pavillion33,000 sq ft

    Lee Park48,000 sq ft

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    Downtown Mall165,000 sq ft

    Oakwood Cemetary626,000 sq ft

    Jackson Park17,500 sq ft

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    Downtown Mall165,000 sq ft

    Oakwood Cemetary626,000 sq ft

    Jackson Park17,500 sq ft

    Market East96,500 sq ft

    Market West25,000 sq ft

    Market Walk72,500 sq ft

    Charlottesvilles existing City MarketProposed City Market

    Charlottesvilles Downtown Mall

    Marginalization of non-commercial activities

    Integrates non-commercial community space as a part of the

    market

    Stretches the market into a district, increasing duration of market

    experience

    From Bloc to Block PartySarah Schramm | LAR 7010 Cho, Meyer | 12 Dec 2012

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    Multiple Market Conditions

    Map of Public Space

    Multiple Park Conditions

    Covered MarketDimensions: 200 x 25 (5000 sq. ft.)Vendors: 30 (max)Vendor space: Tables 8 x 3, Behind counter 8 x 4 sharedAmenities: Roof (dry, shady), Paved oor (dry, at), Storage (tables and chairs), Seating (window ledges, adjacent park)

    Temporary Market

    Dimensions: VariableVendors: 74 (max)Vendor space: 20 x 9 (one parking spot)Amenities: Removable canopy (dry, shade), Paved ground (dry), Seating (adjacent mini parks)

    Indoor Market

    Dimensions: 16,000 sq. ft.Vendors: 90 (max)Vendor space: 8 x 6 Amenities: Indoors (can be climate-controlled), Seating (patio furniture, adjacent park), Electricity, Lights, Public bathrooms

    PlazaCanopy: Sun, ConstructedGround: Paved (dry)Enclosure: MinimalSeating: Furniture

    ParkCanopy: Variable (Sun, Vegetated)Ground: Turf (wet or dry), Paved (dry)Enclosure: Some (vegetation, earthwork)Seating: Turf, Amphitheater, Mounds, Stage, Benches

    PlaygroundCanopy: Variable (Sun, Vegetated)Ground: Turf (wet or dry)Enclosure: Earthwork walls on two sidesSeating: Turf, Mounds, Benches, Play equipment

    WoodedCanopy: VegetatedGround: Mulch, Stone, Understory plants (wet or dry)Enclosure: Vegetation and earthworkSeating: Benches

    Community gardenCanopy: None (Sun)Ground: Turf, gravel, wood, variable vegetation (wet or dry)Enclosure: FenceSeating: Benches, Swings

    Parking lotCanopy: Variable (Sun, Vegetated)Ground: Permeable pavement (dry)Enclosure: MinimalSeating: Benches

    Full market day Partial and non-market day

    Open for lingering

    Open for exchange

    Not open to public

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    POSITION/SITE READINGThe Charlottesville city market is a venue for direct exchange be-tween local growers and local consumers. The market offerings change with the seasons, as does the experience of the marketfrom brutally hot solar radiation of parking lot asphalt to the cold gusts of late fall and early spring north west winds. While we can appreciate the markets utilization of an asphalt parking lot during its off hours we should also expect better experiential qualities in our public space.PROPOSITIONThis project conceptually embraces this seasonality while main-taining a fixed spatial layout. It does so through the shifting loca-tion of vendor and consumer functions in response to heat, light and air movement. The profile, angle and materials of the mar-kets canopies and ground planes are catalysts for social gather-ing and movement relative to the construction of microclimates. These slightly tilted planes and surfaces create comfortable out-door spaces; they extend the seasonsstretching the comfort of autumn into the late summer and early winter, of spring into late winter and early summer.Micro-climatic conditions are a means of public space organiza-tion and composition. They can accentuate conditions in order to create place (or poles) for gathering and movement with aware-ness of the diurnal and seasonal change in the urban environment.This intervention does not reinforce a homogenous condition or static character. It seeks to increase awareness and understand-ing of change and specific properties of material, light, and move-ment. Space is conceived through its properties and its seasonal and diurnal change; its perceived and experienced as relation-sional, contingent and fluctuating.The new market district is sited south of the RR tracks near the Belmont bridge. This location was chosen as a means to couple a new public space with current proposals to replace the bridge with an underpass. This new market square creates a shared space at the confluence of multiple neighborhoods and brings the economic development and density of downtown across the di-vide of the RR tracks.

    CONNECTION BETWEEN MARKET PROGRAM AND DESIGN IN-TENTIONA large body of knowledge in thermal performance currently ex-ists within the market community; resources such as the Virginia Cooperative Extension detail techniques for evaluating agricul-tural sites based on aspect, solar exposure, slope, elevation, and other climatic. This area of research is not exclusive to agriculture and has been written about extensively in terms of meteorology (Gieger, Oke), architecture (Brown, Rham, Olgayey), landscape ar-chitecture (Marsh, Sullivan, Church) and urban planning (Lynch, Knowles, Erell ).Building on this body of knowledge this project utilizes existing site conditions coupled with formal strategies of elevation, slope and constructed gradients to choreograph vendor and consumer movements. The flexibility and imbedded choice of the inhabi-tants leave the door open for ingenuity, invention and adaptation over time leading to the strong character and uniqueness of the Charlottesville city market.

    Chris WoodsMicro-Climate Market

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    aspect.The aspect of a slope refers to the prevailing compass direction which the slope faces (e.g., east, southeast, etc.).

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    Friendship Court

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    A large urban market has the potential to be a significant part of a city. It not only provides a place where local en-trepreneurs can sell their wares, where citizens can find fresh produce but it also can create a vibrant, diverse public space which invigorates parts of the city that surround it, a destination for tourists and locals alike. Though Charlottesvilles market holds this potential too, a permanent site has yet to be established. Instead, the market is relegated to using a parking lot which is barely adequate to host such a large farmers market. What if Charlottesvilles vision for the market went be-yond placing a few stalls in a parking lot? What if, instead, the market was part of a district that became a gateway between downtown and the region, an urban lab for cap-turing and treating stormwater, and a site for additional mixed-income housing. We propose establishing a market district on the site of the Friendship Court housing project. This site can be redeveloped as early as 2017 and its 11 acres provides an opportunity to bring new life south of the tracks. We propose breaking up the mass of the current superblock by extending 4th street and a perpendicular connecter. The market will be located along the northern edge, facing onto Garrett. An interior, permanent market inside a new mixed use structure will open up onto a se-ries of wooded terraces with shed structures and addi-tional room for tents underneath deep canopy. We propose that these terraces become a trailhead to a new multiuse path that connects south to the Rivanna trail. A new bike shop, bicycle storage and outdoor out-fitters flank the market site, providing a critical mass for this new entry into Charlottesvilles nearby forest walks. Tunneling under Monticello will open up a new pedestri-an access south which will also follow the new stream. When in session, the market will provide an exciting activity to augment the trail riders. When there is not a

    market, the spaces will provide places to rest, picnic and pause in between the trail and downtown. Most of the stormwater from downtown drains into Pollocks Branch which is piped through the Friendship Court site. We propose daylighting this stream, creating a new stream valley, and developing a hydrological district where rainwater is captured, treated and returned to the ground in a way that creates a lush and exciting public realm. Finally, Piedmont Housing Alliance has committed to maintaining the 150 affordable units on site. We propose to add additional market rate housing, including options such as artists lofts and live/work units to accommodate the diverse new population that will soon live south of downtown and frequent the market.

    Dani Alexander. James Moore. Pollocks Branch Market

    Market Logistics Vehicular Circulation

    Conditional Access

    Pedestrian Access

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    Street Market

    Seating Grove

    Covered Market

    Indoor Market Cafe

    Public Restrooms & Storage

    Car Vendor Market

    Bike Trail

    Pipe Outflow

    Lawn

    Community Center

    Kitchen

    Mixed-Income Housing

    Mixed-Income Housing

    Mixed-Use

    Townhomes

    Dirtbike Path

    Trail to Moores Creek

    Sloped Lawn

    Performance Plaza

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    The new City Market performs within the citys growing network of green infrastructure while creating a new typology of public space for Charlottesville. Sited amidst the mature oaks of Garrett Street, the market landscape is nested within an ecotone, where urban street exterior and wild forest interior overlap. It is a landscape that incorporates the ecological edge qualities of resil-ience, density and diversity, while expanding conventional zoning for urban streetscapes.Influenced by the principles outlined by Richard Foreman in Land-scape Ecology, this soft boundary facilitates interaction between the market public space, work-live buildings, and a forest reserve to which humans have limited access. The fingers of the interdigi-tating edge stretch across and blur the conventional hard edge of urban development. The design heightens the Saturday morning market experience by creating an environment that encourages lingering and engages visitors with a new urban ecology. The con-cept of the forest reserve builds upon Kristina Hills essay, Urban Ecologies (2001), following the Downsview Park competition, in which she expounded the necessity for increased biodiversity in the urban realm.The market slips itself into the urban condition while also bring-ing to the surface and re- engaging the processes that urbaniza-tion and politicization have pushed out of sight. Market pavilions, dispersed along four terraces, become extended porches for the public. Rain gardens at the foot of each pavilion provide a node of respite from the bustle of the street. The ground condition shifts between planted and paved edges, providing cues for vendors and the public, and recalling the sites permanent, but flexible, pro-gram.When green infrastructure is combined with public space, a new urban form is created, one that incorporates rather than neu-tralizes biological networks, as Gary Strang writes in Infrastruc-ture As Landscape (1996). Positioning the City Market along this re- imagined urban edge opens the function of this public space to welcoming and accommodating not only the markets 5,000 weekly visitors, but also the social and ecological processes vital to a healthy city.

    Katherine CannellaUrban Edge

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    Market Central Headquarters

    Cville Canning Cooperative &

    Community Kitchen

    Public Restroom

    Work-Live Units

    Work-Live Units

    Garrett Street Public Library

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    MARKET DISTRICTHistorically a hub of light industrial food production, the site of the Friendship Court Housing Project has the potential to once again provide access to live/work opportunities and act as both a new center and thick threshold between Downtown Charlottes-ville and the Rivanna Trail Network.The proposed district includes a new site for the Downtown Char-lottesville Farmers Market at the corner of Garrett St. and 2nd St., adjacent to live/work units, and a new canning/community kitchen facility. The market is also a public space that acts as an entrance to a park, connecting Downtown with the Rivanna Trail Network through three main paths: The Meander, The Prome-nade, and The Trail, each with its own character and speed.The district also serves as a model of how green infrastructure can be integrated into the urban fabric of Charlottesville provid-ing improvements in stormwater quantity reduction, stormwater quality, biodiversity, tree diversity, and tree canopy expansion.MARKETMARKET AS PUBLIC SPACEThe covered, open-air market is a public place defined by exchange and connection between community members and visitors--so-cially in the form of a conversation, or commercially on market and festival days. The market itself is situated beneath a pergola walkway covered in vines and adjacent to convenient public spac-es to stop to eat and chat with neighbors and friends. The market meander ends in a terrace overlooking the nearby mountains.The space is comfortable in all seasons, shaded from the sun and rain in summer by a large, constructed canopy and heated in the winter by a public hearth. At night, lights illuminate the space with the comforting glow of home.During market hours, vendors set up under the market pergola, which defines the market stalls and adding structure to the mar-ket space. Electricity and water is available to all vendors at their stalls. Restrooms and water are also available forvisitors.MARKET AS THRESHOLDThe location of the new market, on a terrace at the high point of the site allows for visual connections to both the Downtown Mall and out to Carters Mountain and Monticello, situating the mar-ket in its particular context as a window out into the agricultural

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    PositionCharlottesville is a divided city. On one hand, it is culturally rich with abundant natural resources and a proud history tied to the Jeffersonian ideals of democracy and equality of opportunity. On the other hand, the physical and social structures of the city obstruct these ideals by exacerbating issues of race and income disparity, manifested in inequitable access to nutritious food, nat-ural, and cultural resources. The division within Charlottesville is readily apparent at the current City Market, which primarily serves only those who can afford to shop there or can physically endure its steep slopes, lack of shelter, and public amenities. The proposal spatializes the complex entanglement of flows, to-pography, materials, programs, and, ultimately people into a new market that incites unexpected encounters and unlikely juxtapo-sitions. The market is located at the center of several paths char-acterized by different residents of the city. The chance meetings created by this dynamic movement of neighbors across the land-scape and market will compel a daily recognition of the otherpeople from other neighborhoods, other age groups, other races, other walks of lifeand foster a sense of empathy through the shared experience of a common place (we are drawing on the writings of Richard Sennett).At the center of the tangle is the City Market, the orienting back-bone of the site, and at the heart of the market is a tablethe space at which the public joins together in communion. It is a shared place around which citizens mutually orient themselves, a common ground to regularly meet, maintain and refresh shared relationships, to engage in dialogue, create and replenish our communal identity. The City Market becomes not just a weekly source of physical nourishment for the body but the everyday site of a social feast that can be carried with us throughout our lives. Site reading, market location and urban design strategy:The existing Friendship Court public housing complex is symp-tomatic of the urban spatial structure of the city that has creat-

    ed an embedded social division favoring highs over lows, North over South, and the social segregation. Further, the physical features ensconcing Friendship Court have shaped a walled-off mega-block with steep edges, tall fences, few access points, and a public housing strategy that perpetuates the social and economic divide south of the railroad. The 4th Street Market seeks to address the divided social culture and inaccessible City Market in Charlottesville by restructuring Friendship Court as a pedestrian-friendly and equitable mixed income neighborhood with the City Market at its core. This mis-sion begins by extending 4th Street and Hinton Street through the center of the site, connecting it to the heart of both downtown Charlottesville and Belmont. Paths and processes of human circu-lation from the adjacent neighborhoods and through Friendship Court inform a underlying design strategy based on daily move-ment patterns.

    Asa EslockerHarriett JamesonGradient Markets

    a moveable feast : 4TH STREET MARKET SOUTHHarriett Jameson + Asa Eslocker / LAR7010 / Fall 2012

    urban analysis : A DIVIDED CITYThe physical + social structures of Charlottesville exacerbate issues of race + income disparity, manifested in inequitable access to nutritious food, natural, + cultural resources.

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    Our proposal creates a new market district along Garrett Street. We believe this market district has the ability to catalyze the cre-ation of a new city center for Charlottesville: one that integrates, connects and re-vitalizes traditionally neglected areas of the city. Based on a live/work regime, our market district uses Fourth Street to vertically integrate this new center with the existing Downtown Pedestrian Mall. Conceptually we view the market dis-trict as a theater with choreographed daily, weekly and yearly rit-uals of activity. Collectively, its three main areas, the Promenade, the Stage and the Orchestral Grove, act as a seam between the topographic, the demographic and the scenographic in Charlot-tesville and as a connector between the disconnected public spac-es in the city. These areas are linked by their use of both rainwater as a resource and the urban forest as a space-making tool. Both are the seeds around which the new market district will grow.The Promenade is the main processional into the market theater and the main public space that ties the market district together. The Promenade inverts the existing crown in Garrett Street and allows for infiltration of rainwater through a set of modular water treatment strips. The Stage is the main performance area where both rainwater and a permanent, daily indoor market are exhib-ited for the City. The stage incorporates an artificial canopy and a sloped rake for rainwater harvesting and a new market structure and parking garage. The Orchestral Grove is the conductor that drives the theater and the large public park containing a temporary weekend market. The OG uses existing geometries to weave together the urban fab-rics of Belmont and Downtown. Tree density, spacing and regu-larity coupled with a shaped, permeable ground plane create the varied spaces that define the OG. The OG harvests rainwater to support the tree growth and to activate the water plazas during large storm events. Regeneration and phased plantings create market areas that continually shift between the three market ter-races dependent upon the growth of the canopy.

    Brian Flynn + JungBreaking Down Barriers

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    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Project intention:Knuckle is a topographic metaphor for the natural hydraulic system of Friendship court, which connects the two watersheds that serve downtown Charlottes-ville. The one watershed coming from high ground in the North, the other from the low elevation points in the South. In between these watersheds, infiltrated runoff and collected stormwater is used to irrigate the farmland on the site in addition to providing a communal habitat for animals and humans.

    Market intention:

    Using terraces as a module and varying them in scales and relationships to one another, Friendship Court consists of both housing and market space, but always utilizes a consistent language across typologies. Where the gradient of public and pri-vate space become ambiguous the dynamism of the space increases, accommodating a diversity of recreational, educa-tional and agricultural activities for people in different seasons.

    Organic food spot

    Watershed

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    recreational corridor

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    Low canopy+ understory

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    Commercial:(6 to 8 restaurant/ bar/cafe/ teahouse)

    Mix-used:(workshop/outdoorclass-room/cooking/ storage/drop-off point )

    40 units

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    Garage(Vehicle entrance)

    Club terrace(activity center)

    Farming, Planting tutorials,

    Farming, Garden tour

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

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    Programs in the Morning

    Shady area in the MorningPrograms from Afternon to EveningShady area from Afternon to Evening

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Music, Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Sunbathing, skateboarding,

    Public art, social gathering

    Football, Soccer, Kite flyinig, Frisbee

    Music festival, outdoor film,

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Grove cafe and tea

    BBQ

    Street cafe and tea

    Street Bar

    Indoor cafe and tea

    Drinking, Eating

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    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Project intention:Knuckle is a topographic metaphor for the natural hydraulic system of Friendship court, which connects the two watersheds that serve downtown Charlottes-ville. The one watershed coming from high ground in the North, the other from the low elevation points in the South. In between these watersheds, infiltrated runoff and collected stormwater is used to irrigate the farmland on the site in addition to providing a communal habitat for animals and humans.

    Market intention:

    Using terraces as a module and varying them in scales and relationships to one another, Friendship Court consists of both housing and market space, but always utilizes a consistent language across typologies. Where the gradient of public and pri-vate space become ambiguous the dynamism of the space increases, accommodating a diversity of recreational, educa-tional and agricultural activities for people in different seasons.

    Organic food spot

    Watershed

    Watershed

    recreational center

    recreational corridor

    recreational corridor

    Framework plan 1=400 Site plan 1=100

    LAR7010-8010-Meyer-Cho-FAL2012_Hongfat Wu

    LAR7010-8010-Meyer-Cho-FAL2012_Hongfat Wu

    Site plan 1=50

    C-C section 1=4

    D-D section 1=4

    C-C section 1=4

    D-D section 1=4

    A-A section 1=32

    B-B section 1=32

    Programmatic structure strategy Material strategy

    + LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LPSite

    Housing:

    A

    A

    C

    C

    D

    D

    B

    B

    vendor table

    Clump

    Garden tree

    Hedge

    Soft materials:

    Hard materials:

    Clump

    Street tree

    temporary parking

    Vehicle circulation + Zoning(vehicle and bicycle shared)

    (12ft wide)

    (Open only on Market day) (Surface)

    (Line)

    (Point)

    (Planting+ Ground)

    (Non Market day)

    (Non Market day)

    (On Market day)

    (On Market day)

    (120 room available on market day)

    (rigid)

    (20W x 35H)

    (flow)

    (10W x 20H)

    (2 to 4H)

    Vendor truck circulation + Table layout Canopy

    Low canopy+ understory

    Shrub

    Pedestrian circulation

    Commercial:(6 to 8 restaurant/ bar/cafe/ teahouse)

    Mix-used:(workshop/outdoorclass-room/cooking/ storage/drop-off point )

    40 units

    Atrium(Residence entrance)

    Garage(Vehicle entrance)

    Club terrace(activity center)

    Farming, Planting tutorials,

    Farming, Garden tour

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

    Programs in the Morning

    Shady area in the MorningPrograms from Afternon to EveningShady area from Afternon to Evening

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Music, Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Sunbathing, skateboarding,

    Public art, social gathering

    Football, Soccer, Kite flyinig, Frisbee

    Music festival, outdoor film,

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Grove cafe and tea

    BBQ

    Street cafe and tea

    Street Bar

    Indoor cafe and tea

    Drinking, Eating

    + HP+ HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + LP

    + LP

    + LP

    + LP

    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Project intention:Knuckle is a topographic metaphor for the natural hydraulic system of Friendship court, which connects the two watersheds that serve downtown Charlottes-ville. The one watershed coming from high ground in the North, the other from the low elevation points in the South. In between these watersheds, infiltrated runoff and collected stormwater is used to irrigate the farmland on the site in addition to providing a communal habitat for animals and humans.

    Market intention:

    Using terraces as a module and varying them in scales and relationships to one another, Friendship Court consists of both housing and market space, but always utilizes a consistent language across typologies. Where the gradient of public and pri-vate space become ambiguous the dynamism of the space increases, accommodating a diversity of recreational, educa-tional and agricultural activities for people in different seasons.

    Organic food spot

    Watershed

    Watershed

    recreational center

    recreational corridor

    recreational corridor

    Framework plan 1=400 Site plan 1=100

    LAR7010-8010-Meyer-Cho-FAL2012_Hongfat Wu

    LAR7010-8010-Meyer-Cho-FAL2012_Hongfat Wu

    Site plan 1=50

    C-C section 1=4

    D-D section 1=4

    C-C section 1=4

    D-D section 1=4

    A-A section 1=32

    B-B section 1=32

    Programmatic structure strategy Material strategy

    + LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LPSite

    Housing:

    A

    A

    C

    C

    D

    D

    B

    B

    vendor table

    Clump

    Garden tree

    Hedge

    Soft materials:

    Hard materials:

    Clump

    Street tree

    temporary parking

    Vehicle circulation + Zoning(vehicle and bicycle shared)

    (12ft wide)

    (Open only on Market day) (Surface)

    (Line)

    (Point)

    (Planting+ Ground)

    (Non Market day)

    (Non Market day)

    (On Market day)

    (On Market day)

    (120 room available on market day)

    (rigid)

    (20W x 35H)

    (flow)

    (10W x 20H)

    (2 to 4H)

    Vendor truck circulation + Table layout Canopy

    Low canopy+ understory

    Shrub

    Pedestrian circulation

    Commercial:(6 to 8 restaurant/ bar/cafe/ teahouse)

    Mix-used:(workshop/outdoorclass-room/cooking/ storage/drop-off point )

    40 units

    Atrium(Residence entrance)

    Garage(Vehicle entrance)

    Club terrace(activity center)

    Farming, Planting tutorials,

    Farming, Garden tour

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

    Programs in the Morning

    Shady area in the MorningPrograms from Afternon to EveningShady area from Afternon to Evening

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Music, Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Sunbathing, skateboarding,

    Public art, social gathering

    Football, Soccer, Kite flyinig, Frisbee

    Music festival, outdoor film,

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Grove cafe and tea

    BBQ

    Street cafe and tea

    Street Bar

    Indoor cafe and tea

    Drinking, Eating

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    + HP+ HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + LP

    + LP

    + LP

    + LP

    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Project intention:Knuckle is a topographic metaphor for the natural hydraulic system of Friendship court, which connects the two watersheds that serve downtown Charlottes-ville. The one watershed coming from high ground in the North, the other from the low elevation points in the South. In between these watersheds, infiltrated runoff and collected stormwater is used to irrigate the farmland on the site in addition to providing a communal habitat for animals and humans.

    Market intention:

    Using terraces as a module and varying them in scales and relationships to one another, Friendship Court consists of both housing and market space, but always utilizes a consistent language across typologies. Where the gradient of public and pri-vate space become ambiguous the dynamism of the space increases, accommodating a diversity of recreational, educa-tional and agricultural activities for people in different seasons.

    Organic food spot

    Watershed

    Watershed

    recreational center

    recreational corridor

    recreational corridor

    Framework plan 1=400 Site plan 1=100

    LAR7010-8010-Meyer-Cho-FAL2012_Hongfat Wu

    LAR7010-8010-Meyer-Cho-FAL2012_Hongfat Wu

    Site plan 1=50

    C-C section 1=4

    D-D section 1=4

    C-C section 1=4

    D-D section 1=4

    A-A section 1=32

    B-B section 1=32

    Programmatic structure strategy Material strategy

    + LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LPSite

    Housing:

    A

    A

    C

    C

    D

    D

    B

    B

    vendor table

    Clump

    Garden tree

    Hedge

    Soft materials:

    Hard materials:

    Clump

    Street tree

    temporary parking

    Vehicle circulation + Zoning(vehicle and bicycle shared)

    (12ft wide)

    (Open only on Market day) (Surface)

    (Line)

    (Point)

    (Planting+ Ground)

    (Non Market day)

    (Non Market day)

    (On Market day)

    (On Market day)

    (120 room available on market day)

    (rigid)

    (20W x 35H)

    (flow)

    (10W x 20H)

    (2 to 4H)

    Vendor truck circulation + Table layout Canopy

    Low canopy+ understory

    Shrub

    Pedestrian circulation

    Commercial:(6 to 8 restaurant/ bar/cafe/ teahouse)

    Mix-used:(workshop/outdoorclass-room/cooking/ storage/drop-off point )

    40 units

    Atrium(Residence entrance)

    Garage(Vehicle entrance)

    Club terrace(activity center)

    Farming, Planting tutorials,

    Farming, Garden tour

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

    Programs in the Morning

    Shady area in the MorningPrograms from Afternon to EveningShady area from Afternon to Evening

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Music, Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Sunbathing, skateboarding,

    Public art, social gathering

    Football, Soccer, Kite flyinig, Frisbee

    Music festival, outdoor film,

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Grove cafe and tea

    BBQ

    Street cafe and tea

    Street Bar

    Indoor cafe and tea

    Drinking, Eating

  • 57: DRAFT

    + HP+ HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + LP

    + LP

    + LP

    + LP

    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Project intention:Knuckle is a topographic metaphor for the natural hydraulic system of Friendship court, which connects the two watersheds that serve downtown Charlottes-ville. The one watershed coming from high ground in the North, the other from the low elevation points in the South. In between these watersheds, infiltrated runoff and collected stormwater is used to irrigate the farmland on the site in addition to providing a communal habitat for animals and humans.

    Market intention:

    Using terraces as a module and varying them in scales and relationships to one another, Friendship Court consists of both housing and market space, but always utilizes a consistent language across typologies. Where the gradient of public and pri-vate space become ambiguous the dynamism of the space increases, accommodating a diversity of recreational, educa-tional and agricultural activities for people in different seasons.

    Organic food spot

    Watershed

    Watershed

    recreational center

    recreational corridor

    recreational corridor

    Framework plan 1=400 Site plan 1=100

    LAR7010-8010-Meyer-Cho-FAL2012_Hongfat Wu

    LAR7010-8010-Meyer-Cho-FAL2012_Hongfat Wu

    Site plan 1=50

    C-C section 1=4

    D-D section 1=4

    C-C section 1=4

    D-D section 1=4

    A-A section 1=32

    B-B section 1=32

    Programmatic structure strategy Material strategy

    + LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LPSite

    Housing:

    A

    A

    C

    C

    D

    D

    B

    B

    vendor table

    Clump

    Garden tree

    Hedge

    Soft materials:

    Hard materials:

    Clump

    Street tree

    temporary parking

    Vehicle circulation + Zoning(vehicle and bicycle shared)

    (12ft wide)

    (Open only on Market day) (Surface)

    (Line)

    (Point)

    (Planting+ Ground)

    (Non Market day)

    (Non Market day)

    (On Market day)

    (On Market day)

    (120 room available on market day)

    (rigid)

    (20W x 35H)

    (flow)

    (10W x 20H)

    (2 to 4H)

    Vendor truck circulation + Table layout Canopy

    Low canopy+ understory

    Shrub

    Pedestrian circulation

    Commercial:(6 to 8 restaurant/ bar/cafe/ teahouse)

    Mix-used:(workshop/outdoorclass-room/cooking/ storage/drop-off point )

    40 units

    Atrium(Residence entrance)

    Garage(Vehicle entrance)

    Club terrace(activity center)

    Farming, Planting tutorials,

    Farming, Garden tour

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

    Programs in the Morning

    Shady area in the MorningPrograms from Afternon to EveningShady area from Afternon to Evening

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Music, Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Sunbathing, skateboarding,

    Public art, social gathering

    Football, Soccer, Kite flyinig, Frisbee

    Music festival, outdoor film,

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Grove cafe and tea

    BBQ

    Street cafe and tea

    Street Bar

    Indoor cafe and tea

    Drinking, Eating

    + HP+ HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + HP

    + LP

    + LP

    + LP

    + LP

    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Knuckle Market- sculpting topography

    Project intention:Knuckle is a topographic metaphor for the natural hydraulic system of Friendship court, which connects the two watersheds that serve downtown Charlottes-ville. The one watershed coming from high ground in the North, the other from the low elevation points in the South. In between these watersheds, infiltrated runoff and collected stormwater is used to irrigate the farmland on the site in addition to providing a communal habitat for animals and humans.

    Market intention:

    Using terraces as a module and varying them in scales and relationships to one another, Friendship Court consists of both housing and market space, but always utilizes a consistent language across typologies. Where the gradient of public and pri-vate space become ambiguous the dynamism of the space increases, accommodating a diversity of recreational, educa-tional and agricultural activities for people in different seasons.

    Organic food spot

    Watershed

    Watershed

    recreational center

    recreational corridor

    recreational corridor

    Framework plan 1=400 Site plan 1=100

    LAR7010-8010-Meyer-Cho-FAL2012_Hongfat Wu

    LAR7010-8010-Meyer-Cho-FAL2012_Hongfat Wu

    Site plan 1=50

    C-C section 1=4

    D-D section 1=4

    C-C section 1=4

    D-D section 1=4

    A-A section 1=32

    B-B section 1=32

    Programmatic structure strategy Material strategy

    + LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LP+ LPSite

    Housing:

    A

    A

    C

    C

    D

    D

    B

    B

    vendor table

    Clump

    Garden tree

    Hedge

    Soft materials:

    Hard materials:

    Clump

    Street tree

    temporary parking

    Vehicle circulation + Zoning(vehicle and bicycle shared)

    (12ft wide)

    (Open only on Market day) (Surface)

    (Line)

    (Point)

    (Planting+ Ground)

    (Non Market day)

    (Non Market day)

    (On Market day)

    (On Market day)

    (120 room available on market day)

    (rigid)

    (20W x 35H)

    (flow)

    (10W x 20H)

    (2 to 4H)

    Vendor truck circulation + Table layout Canopy

    Low canopy+ understory

    Shrub

    Pedestrian circulation

    Commercial:(6 to 8 restaurant/ bar/cafe/ teahouse)

    Mix-used:(workshop/outdoorclass-room/cooking/ storage/drop-off point )

    40 units

    Atrium(Residence entrance)

    Garage(Vehicle entrance)

    Club terrace(activity center)

    Farming, Planting tutorials,

    Farming, Garden tour

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

    Dancing,Yoga, Workout

    Programs in the Morning

    Shady area in the MorningPrograms from Afternon to EveningShady area from Afternon to Evening

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Running, Biking, Resting

    Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Music, Picnic, Hide and Seek

    Sunbathing, skateboarding,

    Public art, social gathering

    Football, Soccer, Kite flyinig, Frisbee

    Music festival, outdoor film,

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Cooking, workshop, drinking, eating, outdoor classroom

    Grove cafe and tea

    BBQ

    Street cafe and tea

    Street Bar

    Indoor cafe and tea

    Drinking, Eating

  • 58: DRAFT

    Man lives by nature. This means that nature is his body with which he must remain in perpetual process in order not to die. - Marx, 1982Metabolic circulation, then is the socially mediated process of en-vironmental, including technological, transformation and trans-con- figuration, through which all manner of agents are mobi-lized, attached, collectivized, and networked.- SwyngedowThis proposal is predicated on the conception of the city as a so-cio-environmental process and envisioned as a meta- bolic sys-tem that is subject to flows, processes, transformation, and distur-bance events.The site is situated at the edge of several conditions at the edge of a low-income neighborhood and between two urban fields, separated from the economic and social life of the mall by a rail corridor. Water collected from the mall and surrounding neigh-borhoods is piped under the site.Daylighting the stream, water is filtered and absorbed, metabo-lizing wastes and sediments. The processes of water in the con-structed stream valley parallel and connect with those of the food systems. The daily spatial experience of urban- ized nature starts in the dwellings and progresses through the systems of food pro-duction, consumption and transforma- tion on the site.

    Dasha LebedevaCity Market Metabolisms

    edibles grown on site

    sun, water, soil nutrients, cultivation

    shade, water, amenities, seating

    shelter, shade, social interaction, water

    shelter, shade, water

    pipe settling pond biolter basin

    irrigation

    watershedrainfall

    edibles grown on local farms

    market human consumer

    animal consumer

    waste

    kitchen table

    compost

    landll

    watershed

    cultiv

    ation

    harve

    st

    sorti

    ng

    clean

    ing

    trans

    port

    micro

    bial

    diges

    tion

    mixin

    g

    exch

    ange

    trans

    port

    seed dispersal

    digestion

    pollination

    colle

    ction

    transport

    retention

    retention

    inltr

    ation

    evap

    otran

    spira

    tion

    inltration

    inltration

    evapotranspiration

    cleansing

    cleansing

    runo

    clean

    ing

    cook

    ing

    eatin

    gdig

    estio

    n

    waste

    water

    treatm

    ent

    Dasha Lebedeva | Landscape Metabolisms

    Man lives by nature. This means that nature is his body with which he must remain in perpetual process in order not to die.- Marx, 1982

    Metabolic circulation, then is the socially mediated process of environmental, including technological, transformation and trans-con-figuration, through which all manner of agents are mobilized, attached, collectivized, and networked.- Swyngedow

    This proposal is predicated on the conception of the city as a socio-environmental process and envisioned as a meta-bolic system that is subject to flows, processes, transformation, and disturbance events.

    The site is situated at the edge of several conditions at the edge of a low-income neighborhood and between two urban fields, separated from the economic and social life of the mall by a rail corridor. Water collected from the mall and surrounding neighborhoods is piped under the site.

    Daylighting the stream, water is filtered and absorbed, metabolizing wastes and sediments. The processes of water in the constructed stream valley parallel and connect with those of the food systems. The daily spatial experience of urban-ized nature starts in the dwellings and progresses through the systems of food production, consumption and transforma-tion on the site.

  • 59: DRAFT

  • 60: DRAFT

  • 61: DRAFT

  • 62: DRAFT

    In the historical course, humans speed up and slow down the time of growing, processing and getting food. As J.B. Jackson wrote in the word itself, A landscape represents man tak- ing upon himself the role of time. Humans speed up and slow down time when they con- struct landscape. Landscape is a background infrastructure that supports daily life. This sets the stage for my arguement is that food itself can be a structure, a system and an infrastruc- ture that connects different groups of people, different orgainisations, different kinds of food resources, thus generates different public space.The new market functions as a port where food is introduced and circulated. The foodport market will activate the regional food in-frastructure and bring a sense of security to the low-income peo-ple. Hence, the community gardens should be an essential part of the new market. I am interested in improving the life conditions of the low-income people of Char- lottesville. In the urban frame-work plan, I target two food deserts that has the highest pop- ulation percentage of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) eligible peple. I propose the low-income people of the two food deserts will grow food in the community gardens and get tokens to purchase other items in the market. The green infra-structure, such as collecting water, will lower the maintence cost for them. I also want to involve other par- ticipants, such as resi-dents onsite, local restaurants and language center. Prepared foodof different countries will be made in the new market, which transforms the market into an4.4% of SNAPoutdoor classroom, a new public place. In this way, children and a diversity of races can beattracted to the new market.ELIGIBLEMarket is a public place to circulate food and provide food for peo-ple. The dashed line is the existing relationship in the current city market. The most important relationship is between farms and the market. There are over 40 farms serving for the current mar-ket. The distancein between varies from 7 miles to over 80 miles. Transportation is

    Yoyo LiFoodport Market

    4.4% of SNAP ELIGIBLE

    4.4% of SNAP ELIGIBLE

    Farm to School delivered by Local Food Hub

    Highest Population Percentage of SNAP Eligibility

    RidgeElevation 446 Topo LineValley

    Community Garden

    Water

    0 400200 800 1200N

    CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY MARKET FARM NETWORK

    URBAN FRAMEWORK PLAN-Food deserts and watersheds

    Friendship Court

    FOODPORT MARKET -Activate the Food Infrastructure

    30 miles

    60 miles

    20 miles

    10 miles

    40 miles

    80 miles

    0 10 20 40 mi

    farms selling at Charlottesville City Market regional farmers markets mills meat processing

    Farm

    Meat ProcessingGrocery Store with SNAP

    SNAP Eligible People

    Local Food Hub

    School

    Language Center

    Local Restaurants

    Low maintenance

    Diversify the race of potential customers

    Proposed

    Existing

    FoodportMarket

    Community Gardens

    teach

    get tokens

    In the historical course, humans speed up and slow down the time of growing, processing and getting food. As J.B. Jackson wrote in the word itself, A landscape represents man tak-ing upon himself the role of time. Humans speed up and slow down time when they con-struct landscape. Landscape is a background infrastructure that supports daily life. This sets the stage for my arguement is that food itself can be a structure, a system and an infrastruc-ture that connects different groups of people, different orgainisations, different kinds of food resources, thus generates different public space.

    The new market functions as a port where food is introduced and circulated. The foodport market will activate the regional food infrastructure and bring a sense of security to the low-income people. Hence, the community gardens should be an essential part of the new market. I am interested in improving the life conditions of the low-income people of Char-lottesville. In the urban framework plan, I target two food deserts that has the highest pop-ulation percentage of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) eligible peple. I propose the low-income people of the two food deserts will grow food in the community gardens and get tokens to purchase other items in the market. The green infrastructure, such as collecting water, will lower the maintence cost for them. I also want to involve other par-ticipants, such as residents onsite, local restaurants and language center. Prepared food of different countries will be made in the new market, which transforms the market into an outdoor classroom, a new public place. In this way, children and a diversity of races can be attracted to the new market.

    Market is a public place to circulate food and provide food for people. The dashed line is the existing relationship in the current city market. The most important relationship is between farms and the market. There are over 40 farms serving for the current market. The distance in betwee