SOUTHWATERFRONT FALL 2011 ARCHITECTURE UNDERGRADUATE THESIS PREPD A N I E L L E T H I R E A U L T

THESIS INVESTIGATIONHow can we more effectively use abundant water resources and art activities to reinforce social, ecological, and economic sustainability? Ecodistricts are a progressive way to enrich our communities and decrease our impact on the local environment. These ecodistricts need to

do more than just comprise of series of sustainable buildings. They need strong ecological connections, an interdependence with resource sharing,

and a rich civic ecology built around a local economy and self governance.

I have chosen the South Waterfront as an investigation site because of its strong relationship to the Willamette River and close proximity to

natural ecosystems. Currently the area has made great progress in ecological planning and sustainable building, but it lacks the vibrant social life

of a strong community. My thesis will explore how water and the arts can help develop internal neighborhood connections and links to the larger

city.

WATER ThePacificNorthwesthasanabundanceofwater,afactnotfullyappreciated.Greywatersystemsandrainwatercollectionsystemsare

not new to this area, but water is still often wasted. Water is a resource that we can utilize to optimize heat and energy transfer both within and

between building structures. Because water nourishes all life forms, and I will examine how it can be the center of a community. This resource can

link between buildings as a network, both physically and conceptually.

PROPOSAL I propose to design an arts center that is part of a social network of resource sharing buildings. I will explore how the building design can use

water to inspire sustainable behavior and support community interaction.

As part of a ecodistrict network, I am striving to make my building a demonstration on how the sustainable strategies can be celebrated. So

often people are desensitized to information. With the abundance on eco-friendly practices and statistics, there needs to be alternative ways to

inspire sustainable behavior. My building design will celebrate water as a resource as well as demonstrate how it can be used to stimulate urban

activity and community cohesion.

GOALS-Support healthy bike and pedestrian transportation -Design a clear hierarchical street system -Promote emphasis on retail vs. residential streets-Facilitatebicycletraffic

-Create strong community connections -Public Gathering Space -Community Gardens -Local Market -Utilize Public Art for Communication

-Develop ecological sustainability -Efficientandexpressivewatercollection -Resource sharing among buildings-Energyefficientbuildings

-Strengthen connections to nature -Green corridors linking to the waterfront -Increase awareness of the Willamette River Ecosystem -Strengthen habitat corridors

-Make the built environment expressive using artwork, art activities, and aesthetic environments. -To draw ettention to natural assets, such as water -To encourage sustainable living -To connect the neighborhood to the larger city

TO CREATE A LIVABLE, VIBRANT NEIGHBORHOOD

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Ankrom Moisan South Waterfront Plan

South Waterfront Greenway Development Plan

H I S T O R Y A N D D E V E L O P M E N T

From Buster Simpson Greenway Development Plan

SITE ANALYSIS

Access Filtration Activity Nodes Site Mediation

MyspecificsiteislocatednexttoOHSU,attheintersectionofSW Whitaker St and SW River Pkwy.

On my lot, I will develop an Educational Art and Community Center to engage the community.

This center will serve as a means of connection between the city

and the river, the community and OHSU, and the existing apartments and future

development.

The building activities will attract residents and visitors from diverse backgrounds, connecting across generations, beliefs, and races.

The building will serve as a demonstration of sustainable strategies

in an engaging, artistic way, utilizing art and education as a communication tool.

There will be a housing tower adjacent to the Arts Academy to provide

residential space for student, professors, visiting professionals, and condos above to help fund and support the Academy.

SUMMARY

USER PROFILESCommunity

Bob and Alice Denise and Nancy Ashley and Thom

Academy

InternationalWill and Linda Linda Wysong Colin Ives

Luis Camnitzer Arunkumar H.G. Mark Salvatus

Activities: -Community Classes -Public Gallery Openings -Public Performances -Public LecturesHours of Use -After Work - After 5pm -After School - After 3pm -Weekends

Activities: -Formal Art Education/ Artist-In-Residence -Eco Art Exploration -Performance Art and PracticeHours of Use -Primary work hours 9-5 -Evening Performances and Lectures -After Hour Project Development

Activities: -Guest Lectures -Eco Art Exploration -Artist-In-Residence Programs -Housing NeedsHours of Use -Primary work hours 9-5 -After Hour Project Development

PROGRAMCOMMUNITY ARTS A C A D E M Y

Facility ServicesParking?-Child Care Center - 1 @ 800 sq ft-Lobby - 1 @ 1500 sq ft-Administrative/Offices-6@120sqft-Cafe-1@1500sqft-Trash/Recycling - 100 sq ft-Private Rentable Studios - 6 @ 200 sq ft-Facilities Services - 400 sq ft -Restrooms - 3 @ 200 sq ft

Performance Arts-Music Practice Rooms - 4 @ 200 sq ft-Sound Booth - 1 @ 200 sq ft-Theater/ Lecture - 1 @ 3500 sq ft - 1 @ 1500 sq ft-Dressing Rooms/ Showers - 2 @ 800 sq ft-Dance Studio/Recital Space - 2400 sq ft

Education-Classrooms - 4 @ 800 sq ft-Gallery - 1 @ 300 sq ft - 1 @ 800 sq ft-Computer Lab - 1 @ 400 sq ft -Library - 1 @ 1500 sq ft

Physical Art-Ceramics + Kiln - 800 sq ft INT 400 sq ft EXT-Wood Shop - 2000 sq ft-Metal - 2000 sq ft-Weaving - 800 sq ft-Printmaking/Photography - 800 sq ft + 100 sq ft Dark Room

Outdoor-Ampitheater-Sculpture Garden-Community Market/Gathering Space-Playground

Housing-Residential Tower Adjacent-Cooperative Arts Student Housing -Artists-In-Residence-Condos Top Floors to Support Arts Academy

PROGRAM VARIABLE USER ACCESSIBILITY

MORNING AFTERNOON EVENING NIGHT

PUBLIC

PRIVATE

Community Classes

Public Lectures

Gallery Exhibitions

Art Performances

Formal Art Classes

Eco Art Exploration

Artist In Residence

Performance Practice

Housing Facilities

ECO ART POTENTIAL FRAMEWORK AND PRECEDENTS

Buster Simpson’s Scrapyard Of Transformative Potential Using excavated materials from the site as development continues, create a source for local artists to utilize. This material will provide a resource for artists todraw from and recycle to create public artworks throughout the South Water-front Greenway and future commissioned and collaboration projectswith private and public development.

Living Water Garden Theparkwasdesignedasagiantfish,witheachpartofthetreatmentsystem represented by a body part. The water’s journey starts when it is pumped fromtheriverupa20-foothighhillintothesettlingpond(eyeofthefish).Thewa-terthenenterstheconstructedwetlands(scales)plantedwithsevendifferentwater-purifying plants designed also to refer to Hang Long, a series of beautiful limestone pools cascading three kilometers down the nearby sacred Mt. Emei.http://www.keepersofthewaters.org/lwg_gal.cfm

Sculptures of Living Processes – Jackie Brookner The Gift of Water - “Brookner’s sculpture features various mosses on a pair of large cupped hands. The mosses purify the water of the fountain and the sculp-ture itself represents the precious nature of the water that we use.” “TheRooseveltCommunityCenterinSanJoseisaLEEDgoldcertifiedbuild-ing and re-cycles storm water runoff from the roof. Two of Brookner’s installations dothisfiltering.Inoneofthem(left)waterischanneledintoabasin-likesculpturethataeratesthewaterasitdropsintothebasinbelowwhereitisfilteredandre-cycled.”http://www.thethirdray.com/installation/sculptures-of-living-processes-jackie-brookner/

PRECEDENTS Providence, RI Dil ler Scofidio + Renfro

A three-story, 38,815-square-foot interdisciplinary arts center for a mix of Brown University’s departments, including theater, dance, music, and visual art. The building includes a 200-seat recital hall and screening facility, a multimedia lab, a recording studio, large multipurpose production studios, a woodshop,offices,andgalleryspace.Agreeninfrontofthemain(west)facadefeatures grass-covered steps and doubles as an outdoor amphitheater; aflatswathofzincpanelingonthefacade accommodates a projection screen. This building has a very similar size and features that I want to include in my project. It is a good reference on how education and the arts work together in a single facility, also in an urban setting.

Perry and Marty Granoff C e n t e r f o r t h e C r e a t i v e A r t s

F i n n C e n t e r Community School of Music and ArtsMountain View, CA Mark Cavagnero Associates

The Center for Music and Arts Education is a 25,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art education facility. ItwillbethefirstpermanenthomeoftheCommunitySchoolofMusicandArts(CSMA),a35-year-oldnon-profitorganizationinMountainView,Calif.Inadditionto housing music classrooms and private music studios, the building provides visual arts studios, administration space, a recital hall and an outdoor performance space. This building is helpful in deciding what kind of programmaticelementswouldbebeneficialinmyproject.

3D INTERPRETATION

“EcoDistrict Summit.” Portland Sustainability Institute. Web. 17 Oct. 2011. <http://www.pdxin-stitute.org/>. I attended the EcoDistrict Summit held in Portland on Wednesday 26 October 2011. There was an abundance of discussions on the different aspects of EcoDistricts, from community interaction resource infrastructure. One discussion which was especially helpful was about community programs such as a tool library or a neighborhood food harvesting group.

Sipes, James L. Sustainable Solutions for Water Resources.Hoboken(N.J.):JohnWiley,2010.Print. “Sustainable Solutions for Water Resources” focuses on real world case studies involving water management and covers the policies, planning, design, and implementation of water conservation and systems. Although the northwest does not have a shortage of water, it is an integral part of my design and I think this will have a lot of insight for me to design the most efficientwatersystemspossiblewithinthesouthwaterfront.Ialsothinkthiscouldbeinfluen-tialinthinkingaboutwatertransportationandusingwaterforresource(heat)transportationas well as just a resource itself.

“Willamette Riverbank Design Notebook”. City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services. May 2001. Web. This notebook is a tool produced to help foster design along the urban river edgewhichisbeneficialtofish,wildlife,andpeople.Thedevelopmentoftheriveredgeisextremely important for the site, as it is currently a recovered industrial site.

“District Energy Analysis: South Waterfront - North District.” Portland Sustainability Institute. Web. This document covers the main areas of current energy consumption and the reduc-tiongoals.Itoutlinesthepotentialopportunities,benefits,andprojectednextsteps.Althoughit mostly covers the northern region of the district, it will be a good tool for analysis and direc-tion for my project.

‘South Waterfront Design Guidelines and South Waterfront Greenway Design Guidelines” City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. 2010. Web. This document thoroughly out-lines the City of Portland’s goals and guidelines for design in the South Waterfront EcoDistrict. This will be a key reference for my project as the design develops and relates to the neigh-borhood.

Benyus, Janine M. Innovation Inspired by Nature. Harper Perennial 1997. Print. Biomimicry is all aboutdrawinginspirationindesignfromthenaturalefficienciesofnature.“InnovationIn-spired by Nature” will help me to understand the full possibilities and implications of biomim-icry structurally and socially.

BedZED. “BioRegional Solutions for Sustainability” Web. http://www.bioregional.com/what-we-do/our-work/one-planet-communities/. BedZED is a good reference for a sustainable communitymodel.Itunifiesthecommunitybothonaresourcesharinglevel,andasociallevel. The strategies applied will be a good source to see the effectiveness of certain design implementations. It is also a good reference for any housing components that may be inte-grated into the project.

McKenzie-Mohr, Ph.D, Doug “Fostering Sustainable Behavior” 2006-2010 Web. http://www.cbsm.com/public/world.lasso. This site has a wealth or articles relating to ecological con-cerns.Itisaninspirationforhowyoucanutilizecommunitybasedsocialmarketingtoinflu-ence behavior. I will be using this source as a reference when designing the building systems and expressive water features related to the site ad community as a whole.

Spaid, Sue. Ecovention exhibited June 21-August 18 at the Contemporary Arts Center of Cin-cinnati. Web. http://www.greenmuseum.org/c/ecovention/intro_frame.html. This text will be very informative on how artists are currently integrating sustainable practices, or promoting ecological awareness. I can use this resource to create a platform to promote artistic expres-sion of eco-friendly behaviors.

Portland Parks and Recreation “South Waterfront Greenway Development Plan Design Component- Phase I” Dec. 8th 2004. Web. http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=45643&a=175890This resource will be extremely helpful in integrating my design with the future greenway and park design anticipated for the South Waterfront. It also covers an plan for public art and how the current conditions and industrial remnants can potentially be integrated into fu-ture public spaces. Since I will be exploring the merits of the marriage of art and sustainable behaviors, the integration of the public realm is very important and this document will help inform that strategy.

Simpson, Buster “Portland South Waterfront Greenway Conceptual Schematic Design Phase” August2004.Thisdocumentgoesintodetailofaspecificpublicartmakingplan.Itcoversstrategies from erosion control to “Laboratories And Studios For Urban Pioneers” to “Scrap-yard Of Transformative Potential”. Since I want to create an environment for individuals to create and stimulate ecological awareness, this proposal will allow me to integrate my de-sign with strategies already being explored by the greenway plan, and let my project to encompass all the aspects of art and public art making.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PROCESS DIAGRAM

PROGRAMMING SCHEMATIC DESIGN

PUBLIC INTERACTION:GREEN SPACES

DESIGN REVISION SPECIFIC WATER FEATURES

DEFINE ECO ART

FINALIZE PROGRAMMATIC ELEMENTS

DETERMINE OCCUPANCY

SPATIAL DESIGN VARIATIONS

SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES

URBAN CONTEXT DESIGN

DESCRIBE LOCAL ECOLOGY AND RESPOND TO IT

GATHERING SPACES

MARKET DESIGN

INTEGRATION TO WATER INFLUENCES ON DESIGN

INTRODUCE STORM WATER MITIGATION

DEFINE SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES

FINALIZE DESIGN

INTEGRATE RESIDENTIAL LOBBY/DENSITY

FACADE AND BUILDING FORM EXPRESSION

DESIGN EXPRESSIVE WATER FEATURES

EXPLORE PLANTING OPTIONS FOR WATER FILTRATION