3 points

Hey there team-
here are my 3 points from the research presentation.

 

Revitalization- linked to the Granby and Olympia neighborhoods that have found new life in the mills.  How can our design bring a new life to the area?
the 1786 square plan- this plan is based on a simple grid construction that rotated slightly off true North-
the Fall Line- this is a geomorphic condition where old rocks of the continent meet the younger rocks of the coast- interesting in terms of connection.


p.s.- I am sorry I was late on Wednesday.  my apologies to you all

Hi, I am uploading panoramic photos of the quarry, I hope you can use them for your projects!

Paul Rudolph

Me, too!

Frank Lloyd Wright

Paul Rudolph

Mies

I'm probably going to use Mies van der Rohe for the charette to give everyone a heads up!

Dibs

Dibs on Eero Saarinen.

Neighborhoods

Research Lens Diagram

This could be a graphic way to organize the words. The layout/image of course can be tweaked but right now the dimensions are meant to take up a whole spread (with space in the middle for binding). This could be used more like a Legend in the begining of the Studio Book.

Analysis

I have uploaded the pdf and ai on db, this map includes topo, ten min walking radius, food (all fast food, and one convenience store within one of the walking radii), historical district, parks, roads and streams

Lens

Lens Icons

Time, Connectivity, Culture, Place, Force
Ai file is on db if anyone wants it or wants to tweak with them, what do y'all think?

Word Map

Site Photos

site visit photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87990895@N07/

New Urbanism; Andrews University

This is a school who incorporates the ideas of New Urbanim into their architecture curriculum with an Urban Studio required for their students.  They work as a whole studio on these projects.

They do similar to what we are aiming for: a book, a presentation to the community, etc every year, in different communities.

http://www.andrewsurbandesign.org/projects.html

Mountain Bandaid

Check out these design competitions! There are three entries that I believe have techniques applicable to our site. In particular the first one called Mountain Band aid because it deals with both grafting and layering while incorporating sustainable design through rainwater collection. All three of these are dealing with sites similar to ours. The graphics are also really nice on the entries!

Mountain Bandaid

Mountain City

Cliff Dwellings

New Urbanism

After going through the design guidelines I feel like these are the principles in one way or another that the city is trying to achieve and follow: PRINCIPLES OF URBANISM

The principles of urbanism can be applied increasingly to projects at the full range of scales from a single building to an entire community.

1. Walkability -Most things within a 10-minute walk of home and work -Pedestrian friendly street design (buildings close to street; porches, windows & doors; tree-lined streets; on street parking; hidden parking lots; garages in rear lane; narrow, slow speed streets) -Pedestrian streets free of cars in special cases

2. Connectivity -Interconnected street grid network disperses traffic & eases walking -A hierarchy of narrow streets, boulevards, and alleys -High quality pedestrian network and public realm makes walking pleasurable

3. Mixed-Use & Diversity -A mix of shops, offices, apartments, and homes on site. Mixed-use within neighborhoods, within blocks, and within buildings -Diversity of people - of ages, income levels, cultures, and races

4. Mixed Housing A range of types, sizes and prices in closer proximity

5. Quality Architecture & Urban Design Emphasis on beauty, aesthetics, human comfort, and creating a sense of place; Special placement of civic uses and sites within community. Human scale architecture & beautiful surroundings nourish the human spirit

6. Traditional Neighborhood Structure -Discernable center and edge -Public space at center -Importance of quality public realm; public open space designed as civic art -Contains a range of uses and densities within 10-minute walk -Transect planning: Highest densities at town center; progressively less dense towards the edge. The transect is an analytical system that conceptualizes mutually reinforcing elements, creating a series of specific natural habitats and/or urban lifestyle settings.  The Transect integrates environmental methodology for habitat assessment with zoning methodology for community design.  The professional boundary between the natural and man-made disappears, enabling environmentalists to assess the design of the human habitat and the urbanists to support the viability of nature. This urban-to-rural transect hierarchy has appropriate building and street types for each area along the continuum.

7. Increased Density -More buildings, residences, shops, and services closer together for ease of walking, to enable a more efficient use of services and resources, and to create a more convenient, enjoyable place to live. -New Urbanism design principles are applied at the full range of densities from small towns, to large cities

8. Green Transportation -A network of high-quality trains connecting cities, towns, and neighborhoods together -Pedestrian-friendly design that encourages a greater use of bicycles, rollerblades, scooters, and walking as daily transportation

9. Sustainability -Minimal environmental impact of development and its operations -Eco-friendly technologies, respect for ecology and value of natural systems -Energy efficiency -Less use of finite fuels -More local production -More walking, less driving

10. Quality of Life

Taken together these add up to a high quality of life well worth living, and create places that enrich, uplift, and inspire the human spirit 

http://www.newurbanism.org/newurbanism/principles.html

The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and the erosion of society’s built heritage as one interrelated community-building challenge.
We stand for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within coherent metropolitan regions, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of real neighborhoods and diverse districts, the conservation of natural environments, and the preservation of our built legacy.
We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology, and building practice.
We recognize that physical solutions by themselves will not solve social and economic problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework.
We represent a broad-based citizenry, composed of public and private sector leaders, community activists, and multidisciplinary professionals. We are committed to reestablishing the relationship between the art of building and the making of community, through citizen-based participatory planning and design.
We dedicate ourselves to reclaiming our homes, blocks, streets, parks, neighborhoods, districts, towns, cities, regions, and environment.

http://www.cnu.org/charter

Guidelines of City & Campus

USC design guidelines

- build upon distinctive character via archr and landscape

- stylistically coordinated

- vary street widths and forms based on hierarchy

- enhances the existing built and landscape environments while creating new campus "fabric" and landmark buildings

- wants to reflect use of campus-research campus in 21^st century

- human scale, more than style, was the most critical factor in a successful campus design

- ‘fabric buildings’ which blend in a frame space rather than make a statement, and ‘landmark’ bldgs., to respond to context, highlighting important intersections

- types of trees corresponding to certain areas and/or streets

- wants to maintain as much natural topography as possible

- sustainable design techniques- particularly water conservation and management

- increase shade, decrease dark paving and dark roofing

Innovista Master Plan

sustainable urban live/work area

development of a world-class waterfront park

revitalize critical areas of downtown and link them to other redevelopment efforts, including the existing Vista arts and entertainment district

planning area places urban, mixed-use development within the framework of Columbia’s historic street grid

Innovista district’s historic grid system will be designed primarily for pedestrians, while others will provide vehicular service and access to parking

distinguishing feature of the Innovista Master Plan will be the Congaree Regional Waterfront Park, celebrating the City’s industrial heritage and riverside location

Mixed-use development at Innovista will create housing, retail and office space in four- to six-storey street-fronted buildings with multi-story parking structures

implementing the Master Plan for the Innovista planning area will permit completion of the Three Rivers Greenway, providing continuous waterfront access and signifi cant recreational amenities to the region’s residents

bring urban housing to downtown Columbia, including the Canal Side residential development along the Columbia Canal, the City Club project and the Kline Property mixed-use development along Gervais Street. A Hilton Hotel is under construction adjacent to the Convention Center and the new USC baseball stadium, which will serve students, residents and tourists

Redevelopment of the property along the waterfront for mixed-use real estate and public park use —and connecting it to downtown—is both a key challenge facing Innovista as well as a singular opportunity for the community. Downtown Columbia currently has limited public access to the Congaree

Urban design

Based on a sustainable “garden city” design concept, the Innovista area will feature landscaped parks, pedestrian promenades, streets that are friendly to both pedestrians and bicyclists, and environmentally sustainable buildings.

The architectural design concept envisions four- to six-story street-fronted urban buildings with parking in multi-story structures

The urban design plan calls for distinctive open space and architectural massing considerations to mark these gateways

The Innovista design concept creates a distinction between streets designed accessible for cars, but designed primarily for pedestrians and bicycles (“A” streets), and streets designed for the automobile (“B” streets) providing efficient vehicular access to all blocks as well as to their service areas

Open space: The open space design concept mirrors the historic street grid, transforming existing and proposed streets into pedestrianfriendly roadways with shade tree canopies, broad sidewalks and traffic-calming measures. It introduces urban, landscaped open spaces to the grid along Greene Street and the gateway districts, and culminates in the Congaree Regional Waterfront Park

The urban design concept for Greene Street is to create a pedestrian street in the European tradition as the primary link between the University and the Congaree Regional Waterfront Park, featuring a narrow right-of-way framed by street-fronted buildings whose ground floors present active commercial uses to the street

1Q=.8VC

The land area of the quarry is 80% that of the Vatican City.

Map Overlay

This is the 1888 map overlaid on top of the current Google map.

Layout

Hi Everyone,

I know a few of you have been emailing me because the layout seemed to disappear from the folder but it is back! I am also going to down save it for those of you that have CS5. I think it would be a good idea for all of us to start getting organized so we do not have anymore confusion. In the layout folder we should probably make out own individual folders with our name in order to put our links in. Then each person can save their own InDesign file as Layout_Johnson for example. You can go ahead and use the 3x3 that we talked about in class but I am going to begin to adapt this file so it better utilizes our "Concept Lens Diagram" we talked about in class, so soon you will see me place a "MasterFile" in the layout folder. I am going to keep a master file on my computer as well. As soon as everyone feels comfortable with their layouts I can begin compiling it in the master file and updating it as we move forward.

The other idea I want to bring up is how to diagram these words. I spoke briefly with Mary about this and we think it could be a simple almost "symbol like legend". I am thinking that near the Table of contents there will be a spread that is very graphic maybe with an image of a camera and multiple lenses and from these "lenses" the words would branch off and each word would have its own very simple symbol. Hopefully this image will become self-explanatory to the reader and then can understand we used these concepts as a "filter". Then on the spreads throughout the book near the title of the page these "symbols" will appear. The ones used will be dark and those that aren't can drop in opacity. What do you all think? There are alot of words and this might be the only way of "dumbing it down". I am interested to hear what you all think!!! Any ideas for the symbols it would be really helpful!!!

Thanks everyone!

What does Columbia want?

On bringing in tourism:

"The Columbia riverfront: Flood the Olympia quarry near the Congaree River to create a marina. Build shops and restaurants with a South Carolina flair along the lake. But the real draw would be a one-of-a-kind building on the riverfront to be designed by the winner of a contest. Think something along the lines of the silver-ribbon Guggenheim Museum on the riverfront in Bilbao, Spain."

Think Out of the Box:

What will it take to make the Midlands a tourist magnet?

Perhaps a world-class piece of architecture along the Congaree River at the Olympia quarry with marinas, stores, restaurants and condos.

It could be cruises from Columbia to Charleston along the lakes and rivers leading to the Lowcountry.

When asked whether the riverfront idea might compete with the city of Columbia's riverwalk plan, MacNulty said: "New thinking is needed ... to create a 'wow' factor to put the city on the tourism map."

Columbia Mayor Bob Coble said he appreciated any idea "that was out of the box," but he wondered whether quarry owners were ready for development.

Filling with Water:

Watch here two videos on a quarry filling with water due to a flood and I assume a broken levy...

Marina Precedents:

Miami Crazy 'Wow' Factor 

 World's First Floating Village

 

 

-"luxury shipping containers" describe hotel rooms

- apartments, townhouses, offices, hotel, cafe, theater

- car-free community, boat sharing program- encouraging use of water and river

Cover idea?

Studio Book cover idea?

Inspiration

an excerpt from a blogger in Chicago

" The artificial depths seem ominously unstable; despite the solid beds of rock that line their walls, it is hard to behold a quarry without feeling that somehow, Nature will strike back, bring the walls crumbling down, reclaim the pit, fill the vacuum. Land dikes separating quarry pits look precarious to begin with, even before they are pierced by Gothic arch-shaped openings to permit communication between pits. And water inevitably finds its way in, requiring constant pumping. The thought of water overwhelming the works of man is, I suspect, a primal fear on some level. Here it's not just a shadowy thought, but frank reality.

The quarry pit is a window into the Earth, showing us a slice of what lies buried under our feet. Rock strata that have not seen daylight in millions of years lay exposed to the world. Tunnels hint at darker depths still. The invasion of water gives one a visual grasp of the water table, the rivers moving below the earth's surface.

And finally, the sheer volume of material removed to create these pits beggars imagination."

Precedents

Roman Quarry disposed Opera

-path downwards tries to give sense of scale, appreciate views, and 'extend ambiance'

Huangshan Mountain Village/ MAD

- high density village
- low-rise residences echo contours of mountains
- blurs boundaries b/w geometries of nature and architecture

House on the Cliff

-respects the lands natural contours it is set in
(- quarries do the opposite, they ignore natures contours and make their own)

Lefevre House

- integration of landscape and architecture
- bringing elements of surroundings to a tactile level at human scale

Top of Tyrol

- enables onlooker to grasp dimensions of site
- a spiritual place to enjoy the scenery
-"design goal was more the design of a situation in space rather than a building"
- an extension as well as reaction to topography and landscape
- also fun and ridiculous fact- it was all erected via helicopter
see also: Canada; Aurland; and of course Trollstigen
 

Women at War 

- an old bunker turned war museum; honoring past while looking towards future
- interesting entryways and daylighting/skylighting
- turning a bunker into a memorial - "juxtaposition between the protective shell of the bunker and it’s contrasting dangerous subject matter" -quarry felt protective yet dangerous; also, once reclaimed, what is the business that can fuel the needs of the community? mill, quarry, what is the next motor, and how do we honor and recognize the previous motors?

Floating Nature Reserve in England

- nature reserve from abandoned quarry
- floating eco-village form reclaimed materials floating on hollow concrete pontoon
- also visitors center to introduce trails and wildlife around reserve

 Stadium in Casablanca in Quarry

- inspired by quarry- designed to resemble mineral
- open-air, but encompassed by blades for sunshade and ventilation
- described as 'oasis' - interesting to turn stark, empty, hot hole into a water-filled, cool, relaxing area
- insular as well as permeable 



Jackpot

-but don't get too excited, most are just nature preserves now, and few pictures

 

1Q=.25ESB

The quarry (at an estimated 375') is about 1/4 the height of the Empire State Building.

1Q=.5HD

The quarry (at an estimated height of 375') is about one half the height of Hoover Dam.

successful reclamation examples

Case Study ideas

1Q=1JKOR

The land area of the quarry is essentially equal to that of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Resevoir in Central Park

                

image source: centralparknyc.org

history- civil war

Preservation organization

The Chicora page has information on education, preservation, and archaeology. 

myth conceptions

This is really interesting to help brush up on the civil war and what was actually taking place politically in South Carolina. 

rice

rice
This has some really interesting information regarding rice in the state of SC.  This claims that rice was present in the Colony of SC as early as the 1670's.  Furthermore, the bibliography has a good list of wonderful sources/books that should at least be looked at to see what has been written.

hisorical photos

I found these pictures rather interesting

historical photos page

brief history

This page gives a brief history of Columbia SC from the respective centuries.

1700's,1800's,1900's

Ground water levels

This report shows ground water levels in Richland County between 1949 and 1990.  The measurements taken closest to the site (Lincolnshire subdivision north of Columbia) show the groundwater levels are trending towards approximately 230' to 255' above sea level.  This could vary across the entire county, but this should be close to the levels of the quarry area.

Reclamation : Botanical Quarry

Shanghai Botanical Has One Rockin’ Quarry Garden

THUPDI and Tsinghua University recently won the American Society of Landscape Architecture 2012 Honor Award for transforming an abandoned rock quarry in Shanghai into a garden oasis, complete with floating water walkway. After hearing the site had been closed to the public for over a decade, the team spent more than 6 years cleaning, planting, and restructuring the massive space. The final design is a unique multi-layered park that works closely with its quarry roots.

A collection of gardens are sprinkled throughout the upper areas, with plants bursting through rustic walls and fences. A giant metal walkway, which was once a ramp for transporting rocks, descends and curves around the deep water hole, bringing visitors closer to the fresh springs and waterfalls that peacefully flow within breathtaking the space.

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/49600/shanghai-botanical-has-one-rockin-quarry-garden/#.UPOS2InjnBA

Reclamation : Concept

Songjiang Hotel Architecture

A concept to come out of China

Near Shanghai, the Songjiang district has become a popular weekend destination for many tourists with its natural beauty and sprawling landscapes. And now the Songjiang Hotel might just become the newest and greenest attraction. While it may look a bit sci-fi, this hotel was designed for the real (green) world, with many sustainable features in mind.

This proposed hotel was designed by the firm Atkins, the same firm which has brought us buildings such as Tianjin’s Pile of Boxes and the Bahrain World Trade Center. The 400-bed resort will be located in a 100-meter-deep quarry located in the province and will contain restaurants, cafes, sport facilities, and even underwater public areas and guestrooms. Water will play an important part in the design, featured in many areas around the hotel. Waterfalls, underwater aquariums, and green areas will be integrated into the design to match the existing facing of the quarry.

The reuse of an already existing site means that the environmental impact will hopefully be smaller. The entire hotel is to be covered in a green roof, while the building will use geothermal energy for it’s electrical supply and heating. The quarry will also provide a good source of heat control and shelter from the environment.

The design of the building is meant to reflect the natural landscape of the quarry. “We drew our inspiration from the quarry setting itself, adopting the image of a green hill cascading down the natural rock face as a series of terraced landscaped hanging gardens.” said Martin Jochman. Needless to say, with such a cool looking site, you’d expect to get a design which will take advantages of it’s very extreme location, and you’d be correct. The hotel, will feature amongst other things: bungee jumping.

Read more: THE SONGJIANG SUSTAINABLE HOTEL IN CHINA | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building