Site Visit Notes

Notes from Columbia Site Visit

701 Whaley

• Mill Center---Community Center--- Gym
• Self-Contained Community
• Studios/ Lofts- Do they meet zone requirements?
• Means of Revival
• Human Relationships= Progress of Humanity
• Mill House
• Production City
•  Cotton 1996
• Vacant Mills are vulnerable
• Self interest driven community design
• New Urban design= “Mill house style”
• Porch
• Considered a slum= Granby Mill Neighborhood
• Salt Box Design
• 3 Rivers Greenway= pedestrian path on river
• Urban Freeway like Lake Shore Drive
• Unusual to have a rock quarry in an urban setting
• Granite crushed stone (dust everywhere)
• Trucks move out through neighborhood
• Reroute trucks to restore mills
• New access road along levy
• Issue: How deep you can go depends on when water fills it (cost of pumping water not worth the materials extracted)
• Levy Design Stepping
• Train tracks cuts area off from city
• National Register Books
• Olympic Pacific: The way we were
• LintHeads

Quarry

• 3.5 Mil tons (Best)
• 65—28 employees only did 1.4 Mil ton
• Improvements in customization
• Almost 24 hours
• Close at 2am open at 4:30am
• Takes a day to mine 10,000 ton
• Competition across the river
• Vulcom vs. Martin- Marietta
• Hot temperatures along fault line
• Flight patterns over the area
• Flow of water and natural patterns
• 15 years left of quarry
• “Reclamation Plan”
• Let water rise to certain level
• Newspaper article of what Columbia believes it will look like
• Golf Course, Lake, Waste Dump
• 2” of rain= 1’ in bottom of quarry
• Reclaiming on south side with processed materials
• Pump, clean, discharge into river
• 240’ Elevation surrounding, trucks dump at elevation 0’
• Rocky Branch Creek has overflowed
• Giant storm drain
• Process: strip land (no dirt or organics), drill 50’ benches (steps), shoot, blast (ammonium nitrate and disel fuel),  primary crushing, 65 ton trucks, jaw crusher, gyratory crusher (1,000 ton/hr), secondary crushing (cone crusher), screened out, tertiary crushing, ends up in piles, load in bins
• Loaded in 1 min into trucks (because trucks are often paid by the ton)
• 20 % height of face is the catch phase
• 3 to 1 slope for reclamation with landscaping
• Quarry in Atlanta turned into park on Vulcon Website

Office

• Concepts people brought up: Grafting, layering, beauty in destruction, body relationships, deception of scale, insularity, dichotomy, connectivity
• How does it relate to: History, culture, Sustainability, and scale