s y m b i o t i c
extending beyond the building enhances the site
SYSTEM
ENVIRONMENT / URBAN
CONDITION
SEA LEVEL / PUBLIC SPACE
OPERATION
EXTEND / CONNECT
RESULT
SYMBIOTIC FIELD
PRIMARY OBSERVATION / EXTENSION
01
WALL SECTION
02
private
boundary
boundary
public
extension
extension
URBAN CONNECTION STUDIES
03
EXTENDING THE PUBLIC REALM WHILE PROVIDING FOR FUTURE ACOMMODATION TO SEA LEVEL RISE
ELEVATED PARKWAYS: IN-BETWEEN CONDITION
EXTENSION OF ELEVATED PARKWAY
public space
as connective tissue
as connective tissue
URBAN + ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
INVERSE RELATIONSHIP / URBAN CONTROL VARIABLE
TYPICAL CONDITION
building
shapes
public space
shapes
public space
SYMBIOTIC CONDITION
public space
shapes
building
shapes
building
APPROACH01
PUBLIC INTERFACE02
PRIVATE-PUBLIC LINKAGE03
SPACE INTERSECTION01
INFRASTRUCTURE OF PATH02
STREET-BUILDING03
APPROACH07
PUBLIC REALM AS OUTLINE08
APPROACH09
PATH INTERNALIZATION10
PRIVATE APPROACH11
PROJECTION 12
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FORT LAUDERDALE
ENVIRONMENTAL
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
PUBLIC SPACE
RAILWAY
PARK
FAT ARTS DISTRICT
SEA-LEVEL RISE
RAILWAY
PARK
FAT ARTS DISTRICT
SEA-LEVEL RISE
The Fort Lauderdale Environmental Research institute emerges from the idea that extending beyond the site dissolves the realm of the private building to the benefit of its public context. This gesture of reaching out allows a rapid integration and revitalization of an industrial area of Fort Lauderdale, by constructing public space envisioned to overcaome the challenge of man-made polar melting and ocean level rise.
The proposed elevated walkways provide multi-level connections between the building and the street, as well as over the railroad and into the currently decaying public park, just west of the site. These links seek to remove blight and barriers from the railway. There emerges a symbiotic opportunity to the neighboring art galleries to further become nodes of activity, the art movement specific to the neighboring FAT arts district being catalyst of possibilities for urban engagement.
Conceived from this reaching out, the building itself calls upon earlier examinations of the concepts of abandoned/ constructed/ cleared site.
The project exploits the expression of a relationship which is inverse, the negation of the typical relationships where the building shapes the public space, and instead, allows the public space to shape it.
The proposed elevated walkways provide multi-level connections between the building and the street, as well as over the railroad and into the currently decaying public park, just west of the site. These links seek to remove blight and barriers from the railway. There emerges a symbiotic opportunity to the neighboring art galleries to further become nodes of activity, the art movement specific to the neighboring FAT arts district being catalyst of possibilities for urban engagement.
Conceived from this reaching out, the building itself calls upon earlier examinations of the concepts of abandoned/ constructed/ cleared site.
The project exploits the expression of a relationship which is inverse, the negation of the typical relationships where the building shapes the public space, and instead, allows the public space to shape it.