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Paris

South Portland Waterfront

Gates Rubber Factory

BSB Green Roof

Cameron Pass Visitor Center

Morgan Library Courtyard

Sketches

Photography

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The Green StitchStitching back the Willamette River to Portland’s South Waterfront

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Existing Site Conditions Model

Materials: Butter-Board, Balsa wood, Needle Pins, Construction Paper

The South Waterfront is the last major underdeveloped area within Portland’s Central City. The area is bounded by the Willamette River, which topped the list of waterways by number of unique toxic chemi-cals. Prior to the City of Portland’s dedication in 1851, riverfront land was used and populated by Native Americans and early Oregon pioneers. Until the early 1900s much of the downtown area was covered by dense coniferous forest. However, historic records indicate a riparian forest of mixed conifer and deciduous trees on the South Waterfront site, making it a unique habitat on this reach of the Willamette River. The existing riverbank is an amalgamation of byproducts from the concrete, maritime and other manufacturing industries that located in the district for most of the last century. The former and current manufacturing and industrial uses have left behind significant contaminants contributing to an official brown-field designation for the district. Today, the land is currently vacant or occupied by industrial uses, with a small amount of the area in office uses, a hotel and restaurants.

However, South Waterfront is poised to play a critical role in the city’s newly-christened “Science and Technology Quarter”. With that in mind, the proposed South Waterfront Master Plan will reinforce the district’s relationship to the riverfront, providing a restored natural habitat for wildlife and develop a multi-functional riverfront green-way to increase social human element along the riverfront.

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Concept Model

Concept Sketches

Land Use and Connectivity Mixed-use Relationship Housing Types Organic Forms

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Building Foot Print

StreetsMajor Roads

Contours

Bike TrailsBusline Routes

Natural Vegetation Park Space Street Trees

100 Year Flood Land UseStreet Lights

GIS Data

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Programing Concept

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Progression Section 1: Wetland to Waterfront Relationship

Progression Section 2: Commercial Area to Waterfront Relationship

Progression Section 3: Mixed-Use to Waterfront Relationship

Progression Section 4: Residential to Waterfront Relationship 10

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Perspective North: Residential Street Interaction

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Perspective South: Wetland Zone

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Perspective Northwest: Waterfront Interaction15

Gates Rubber Factory-Reestablishing the Legend Denver, COGroup Project: Cori Burt, Austin Lucero, Nick Rael

Gates Factory Site Artifacts 16

On October 1, 1911, Charles Gates Sr. first invested in the Rubber Gates Company producing “durable treads” made of leather intended to extend the life of the average automobile tire, the company quickly grew and in 1914 produced its first rubber tread. The growth that followed necessitated a new facility and the site at 999 S. Broadway was selected because of its relative proximity to downtown and because it was adjacent to the streetcar line and the railroad tracks, essential for the national distribution of Gates’ products. Growth continued through nearly the rest of the century, with increasing focus on international expansion. Later in 1995, the company was acquired by a British-based engineering firm, ending 85 years of family ownership. While some of the southern portions of the former site have been redeveloped in the last decade, the main factory site has remained in-tact. The buildings on the site range in date from 1918 through the 1950s, with various additions and renovations persisting until its closure.

After 85 years of heave production at the Gates Factory the site has become a brown field with infiltration of harsh chemicals into the ground water. The site officially obtained a demolition permits for 2014. Remediation of the contaminated soils will be the first phase to the site after demolition. The proximity of the Gates to other amenities is the biggest asset of the site. With its close proximity to the light rail station. mix-use development is the main solution to the residential area. A sense of community is important to unify the separate districts around the site.

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Pre-Demolition Site Conditions View of Gates from the rail lines

Pre-Demolition Site Conditions View of Denver skyline from Gates

Pre-Demolition Site Conditions Inside the Gates Rubber Factory

Major Connections DENVER. COLORADO.CORI BURT. MAY LIU. AUSTIN LUCERO. NICK RAEL.

MIXED USE

SINGLE FAMILY

COMMERCIAL

INDUSTRIAL

ART WALK

GATE’S RUBBERLand Use DiagramInterstate and Transit

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Art District - A continuation of the art dis-trict will foster a more lively and en-gaging cultural center. Visitors will be able to view sculptural pieces along a main boulevard and art instillations under the cover of the freeway, displaying modern work of local artists.

The Neighborhood - The new Gate’s dis-trict will create a trendy, unifying neigh-borhood in the heart of metro Denver. This district lies in the middle of several different districts. Gate’s will be the center piece of an area that brings togeth-er industry, commerce, culture and family.

Recreation Center - Bringing the communi-ty together to play, learn and socialize under one roof, the new rec center will enliven the area and ensure a healthy com-munity. Residents of all ages can stay active and engaged all year long.

Equitable Housing - Various income levels will be able to find a home suitable to their needs in the new Gate’s district. People from all walks of life will come together to help create a well rounded and diverse new neighborhood in the heart of the Denver metro area.

Transit Center - A modern transit center will help facilitate travelers at one of the busiest stations in the area. This transit center will encourage alternative modes of transportation and allow for the light-rail and bus systems to thrive.

Landmark - The historic Gate’s water tower will highlight the entrance to this new district. Visitors will be able to walk around the water tower on an elevated walkway that overlooks the main drop-off circle. This landmark structure will com-memorate the past and propel the future.

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200 Scale Land Use Analysis *group effort

100 Scale Programing Analysis *group effort

40 Scale Organic Pastel Master Plan *group effort

Neighborhood Equitable Housing Public Transit Recreation Culture Art

Programmings

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Section II

Section I

*Master Plan done in group effort

Section II Residential District Looking North

Section II highlights the Residential Districts with more tranquil open space for the community. With lower story residential apartments and low income housing that will ensure a thriving community. Amenities such as community gardens, green roofs, and areas to host farmers markets for the resi-dents to make into a space that they can call their own.

Community Center

Light-Rail Stop

Residential Housing

Open Space Open Space

Section I Commercial Distric Looking North

Section I highlights the Commercial District with an exaggerated shade structure covering the Broad-way Light-Rail Transit Center. Thriving on a extension of the Arts District just a block away, the transit center plaza will host art walks and exhibitions through and around. Mix-Use development along Broadway will increase economic growth and attract businesses to inhabit the hub. South Broadway Station is envisioned to be the second largest thriving transit station in the state of below Union Sta-tion in Downtown Denver.

Light-Rail Station/Shade Canopy

Commercial Mix-Use

Art Walk

Mix-Use Developemt

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Lightrail Station Waiting Area 21

SempervivumHens and Chicks

Sedum albumWhite Stonecrop

Sedum spurium 'Fuldaglut'Caucasian Stonecrop

Sedum rupestre 'Angelina'Angelina Stonecrop

Delosperma cooperiIce Plant

EXTENSIVE PLANTS

Chilopsis linearisDesert Willow

Sesleria autumnalisAutumn Moor Grass

Allium 'Summer Beauty'Summer Beauty Onion

Bouteloua gracilisBlue Grama Grass

INTENSIVE PLANTS

CROSS SECTION GREEN ROOF TECHNOLOGY

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BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES BUILDING GREEN ROOF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY MAY LIU

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BSB Green Roof Fort Collins, CO

The Behavioral Sciences Building roof top terrace is a widely used space by students and staff. The location is West facing looking into the beautiful Rocky Mountains. This Design is to enhance the user experience on the site. Because it is such a small scale project, detail is the most important aspect of this design. Looking at extensive and intensive planting schemes that reduces water runoff and sun glare to the building.

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Cameron Pass Visitor Center Jackson, CO

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Cameron Pass is a 10,276 ft elevation mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains in north central Colorado in the United States. The pass is a gap between the south end of the Medicine Bow Mountains and the north end of the Never Summer Mountains. It has a view to the North Diamond Peak and the Nokku Crags. With its incredible views the pass was lacking a resting area to be immersed in the site.

The proposal for the area is a well maintained visitor center and an elevated walking bridge. The visitor center would be a resting stop including restrooms, historical facts and figures and overlooks from the balcony. The main attraction is the elevated walkway. It is interwoven between the woods from the Cam-eron Pass Visitor Center to the Jackson Visitor Center one mile west of the site. Providing a safe and non-intrusive way of exploring the site.

Rhino 3D Model Showing Site Conditions

Hand Built Model Highlighting Topography

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Morgan Library Coutyard Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

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The Morgan Library Courtyard is located inside the main library at Colorado State University. Currently the site is surrounded by walls on all fours and it is very underutilized.

The new proposed plan provides an open and active space for students to engage with each other. The space provides a sense of nature that is not as distract-ing and intrusive. The reflection pool in the center grounds the design with a water element that humans are innately attracted to. If privacy is needed there is a study nook that is sunken for a more quite study environment.

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Sketches

Invisible Cities Trading Cities 1 Euphemia

Proceeding eighty miles into the northwest wind you reach the city of Euphemia, where the merchants of seven nations gather at every solstice and equinox. The boat that lands there with a cargo of ginger and cotton will set sail again, its hold filled with pistachio nuts and poppy seeds, and the caravan that has just unloaded sacks of nutmegs and raisins is already cramming its saddlebags with bolts of golden muslin for the return journey. But what drives men to travel up rivers and cross deserts to come here is not only the exchange of wares, which you could find, everywhere the same, in all the bazaars inside and outside the Great Khan’s empire, scattered at your feet on the same yellow mats, in the shade of the same awnings protecting them from the flies, offered with the same lying reduction in prices. You do not come to Euphemia only to buy and sell, but also because at night, by the fires all around the mar-ket, seated on sacks or barrels or stretched out on piles of carpets, at each word that one man says--such as “wolf,” “sister,” “hidden treasure,” “battle,” “scabies,” “lovers”-the others tell, each one, his tale of wolves, sisters, treasures, scabies, lovers, battles. And you know that in the long journey ahead of you, when to keep awake against the camel’s swaying or the junk’s rock-ing, you start summoning up your memories one by one, your wolf will have become another wolf, your sister a different sister, your battle other battles, on your return from Euphemia, the city where memory is traded at every solstice and at every equinox.

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Photography

Bagnoregio

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Hong Kong

MacaoMacao

MacaoMacao La Foce Versailles

Florence China Assisi

Villa d’Este

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