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Kresge College: Planning Precedent, Benjamin Campbell, Natalie Giombi
Kresge College: Planning Precedent, Benjamin Campbell, Natalie Giombi
Precedents
Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz, California (1971): One of the residential colleges at UC Santa Cruz, Kresge is located in a redwood forest on the edge of campus. Designed by Charles Moore and William Turnbull, the college is intended to be a non-institutional alternative to the traditional type: its several buildings are assembled irregularly along a twisting pedestrian street broken up by a series of outdoor “piazzas” in the manner of an Italian hill town.
The intent behind looking at this precedent was to have the students consider how buildings might be sited in the rugged topography of Paradise.
The Sea Ranch: Planning Precedent, Kaleena Klimeck, Foster Westover
The Sea Ranch: Planning Precedent, Kaleena Klimeck, Foster Westover
Precedents
The Sea Ranch, California (1960’s): An oceanfront, largely vacation community located some 100 miles north of San Francisco, Sea Ranch is known both for its master plan, which sought to mitigate the impact of buildings in the landscape, and its architecture, which draws from vernacular agrarian building forms and materials. The master plan was devised by the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin. The most notable buildings were by the prominent Bay Area architects Joseph Esherick and MLTW (Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, and Whittaker).
The purpose of studying this precedent was to spur the students’ thinking about designing in a sensitive landscape.
Radburn, New Jersey: Planning Precedent, Elisabeth Frizzell, Victor Hoyos
Radburn, New Jersey: Planning Precedent, Elisabeth Frizzell, Victor Hoyos
Precedents
Radburn, New Jersey (1929): “A town for the motor age,” designed by the architects Clarence Stein and Henry Wright and the landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley. Radburn is best known for its separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The main features in its design are the two main residential superblocks, each comprised of a network of cul-de-sacs surrounding a large semi-public outdoor space, which allow people to walk to school, a rec center, or a commercial center without crossing streets.
The intent behind researching this precedent was to look at ways of developing “walkability” in Paradise.
Lake Anne Village: Planning Precedent, Khoa Le, Sabrina Yerena
Lake Anne Village: Planning Precedent, Khoa Le, Sabrina Yerena
Precedents
Lake Anne Village Center, Reston, Virginia (1963-67): Located in rolling terrain outside Washington D.C., Reston was intended to provide a new model of suburban development in post-World War II America. The town as a whole is composed of several discreet communities, all separated by abundant open spaces. Lake Anne Village is the best known of these, primarily due to its center, a mixed-use development of townhouses, apartments, and shops, whose modestly scaled Brutalist buildings are artfully arranged around Washington Plaza, a superb public space overlooking the eponymous lake. James Rossant was the architect/planner.
The purpose of looking at this precedent …
Greenbelt, Maryland: Planning Precedent, Emma Puryear, Gabrielle Icardo
Greenbelt, Maryland: Planning Precedent, Emma Puryear, Gabrielle Icardo
Precedents
Greenbelt, Maryland (1935-38): Greenbelt was one of three so-called “greenbelt towns” built by the federal government as a response to the jobs and housing crises of the Great Depression. Located in forested land on a broad ridge some eight miles from Washington D.C., the town was conceived as a public cooperative community based on ideas promoted by Rexford Guy Tugwell, head of President Roosevelt’s Resettlement Administration. Tugwell wanted the towns to foster community spirit by combining the best of rural life and urban life: woods and open spaces, theaters and shops.
The purpose of studying at this precedent was to …
Hammarby Sjöstad: Planning Precedent, Christian Bernard, Arielle Eleazar, Ryan M. Huddlestun
Hammarby Sjöstad: Planning Precedent, Christian Bernard, Arielle Eleazar, Ryan M. Huddlestun
Precedents
Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm, Sweden (2004-16): Located in what had been a dilapidated industrial area close to Stockholm city center, Hammarby Sjöstad was built as a comprehensive infrastructural project with sustainable alternatives for water, energy, and waste management. The district, comprising over 300 acres around the shores of Lake Hammarby, is home to some 25,000 people. The block pattern is based on the traditional urban fabric of Stockholm while the architecture is decidedly modern.
The purpose of investigating this precedent was to interest the students in sustainable features they might incorporate into their own designs, both for Paradise as a whole …
Seaside, Florida: Planning Precedent, Sophia Smith, Nolan Delgado, Tiana Shiroma
Seaside, Florida: Planning Precedent, Sophia Smith, Nolan Delgado, Tiana Shiroma
Precedents
Seaside, Florida (1985): A resort community on the Gulf Coast of Florida’s panhandle, Seaside was designed by the New Urbanist pioneers, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Arranged on a radiating street pattern, with myriad pedestrian alleyways and public spaces that promote walking and biking, the town is also known for its form-based planning code: this prioritizes the scale, mass, and envelope of buildings – rather than their use – based on lot location. The town also has an architecture code that specifies building elements and materials.
The purpose of looking at this precedent was to get the students thinking about …
Nolli Map: Comparative Study, Nolan Delgado
Nolli Map: Comparative Study, Nolan Delgado
Precedents
Nolli Map, A Comparative Study: Giambattista Nolli was an Italian architect and surveyor, best known for his very detailed map of Rome, first published in 1748. The map showed the city’s layout in stark contrast: buildings are presented as solid matter, rendered in dark gray, while open spaces, such as streets, plazas, and even the interiors of major buildings, are presented as voids. As James Tice notes in his book, The Nolli Map and Urban Theory, this kind of figure-ground study “provides an immediate and intuitive understanding of the city’s urban form.”
In dense cities like Rome, buildings appear first …
Bo01: Planning Precedent, Ali Chen, Killian Angell
Bo01: Planning Precedent, Ali Chen, Killian Angell
Precedents
Bo01, Malmö, Sweden (2001): Developed on abandoned industrial sites close to the center of Sweden’s third largest city, Bo01 is a high-density urban district completely reliant on renewable energy. It is known also for its innovative recycling of rainwater and wastewater. The dense, irregular street pattern was meant to provide both a pleasant pedestrian character as well as a buffer against strong winds coming off the ocean. Bo01 was designed by prominent architect Renzo Piano, among others.
The purpose of looking at this precedent was to spur the students’ thinking about sustainable features in terms of both planning and architecture.