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WHERE PEOPLE MEET
AND IDEAS SPREAD
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Abram Sorensen
1:Knowledge Economy-An economy in which growth is dependent on the quantity, quality, and accessibility of the information available, rather than on the means of production.
2:Birds Eye View Of The Salt Lake City Valley: Small sparks have taken root over time, but no investment has reached a level
real change. The spark will grow
district fabric, and soon after, regeneration of the city core.
REGIONAL CONTEXT
A 21ST CENTURY KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
Project Narrirative: Knowledge, collecting and evolving through
urban development for 7,000 years.
sharing of information, creating an economy that represents a value of its citizens’ experiences
by early interactions in the primitive years of farming include the creation of language, a driver of society.
During the last century, advances
urban fabric of many cities in the Rocky Mountain region, creating ‘rings’ of new development, moving ‘spark’ developments away from city cores and into adjacent suburbs. Today, new urbanism seeks to reimplemented a revival of our lost art of place-making, and promotes the creation and restoration of compact, walkable, mixed-use
opportunities for developments, businesses and members of the community alike.
Situated in a strong grid of industrial and residential blocks, Salt Lake City has begun to grow and change, moving further away from a car driven template of evolution, towards a more urban-centric model. Communities like Granary district have fallen into ‘degeneration’, resulting from a move away from industrial dominated zoning, and cut off from strong residential communities to the west via I80, which taxi’s 207,000 cars a-day, through the salt lake valley and past the city core.
The spark utilizes knowledge sharing principals: people, place, and technology, incubating new opportunities in the authentic infrastructure of Granary District. Spark strengthens connections through adjacent districts, open space environments and the Salt Lake City core, repairing a broken fabric resulting from a car driven model.
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spark program
salt lake cityparks plan
openmarket
parking
town homes
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REGIONAL SITE MASTERPLAN
REGIONAL ANALYSIS
DISTRICT TOUR
THE STORY
REGENERATION
DEGENERATION
PEOPLE
TECH
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IMMEDIATEINVESTMENT
AUTHENTICINFRASTRUCTURE
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residents, commuters, visitors, investors, entrepreneurs
office, retail, co-op, food, recreation, attraction/supporter
interactivity, social network, integration, knowledge sharing
3:Characterizing Degeneration: This is the project site in its current state, an iconic area in the Granary District.
4:The Good, the bad, and the underutilized: Utilizing existing characteristics of the Granary district, and analyzing new opportunities associated with the Spark.
5:Urban Spaces Analysis: New connections spread outward, and are followed by new developments that stem from the spark program. Economic, Housing, Transportation, Urban and Open Space investments are stimulated by the original spark.
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SPARK CORE CONCEPT
salt lake city
jordanriver
major roadway
major greenway
district
boundary
rail
corridor
i-80
corridor
phase 2
boundary
LOCAL OPPORTUNITIES
Housing
Urban
Open Space
T
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porta
tion
affordable housing
walkablegrid
historicbuildings
civicinvestment
parks
under utilized open space
greenway
greenstreets
pedestriancorridor
phasedparking
plan
entry leveljobs
food basedbusinesses
businesscommunity
connections to neighbor districts
adaptive re-use of industrial buildings
dividinglarge
slc blocks
attract community
and city investment
high and low cost housing
singleunit
occu.
modifiedzoning of district
conference and events
center
openmarket
businessincubator
foodtrucks
business development
workshops
entrepreneurshipbusinessprogram
activerecreation
center
utilization of current open
space as pedestrian
areas
overflowparking inadjacent
lots
interior block above ground
structured parking
dailyevents
seasonal programming
for public open spaceflexible-use
parks program
communityrecreational
events
freewayparks
corridor
green streets as connectors
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adaptive reuseoffice space
+adaptive reuseconferencing adaptive reuse [icon]
active recreation
interfacepedestrian spaceextends to park
adaptive reusecoffee shop
adaptive reusecommunity co-op
publiccenter of sparkvenue public space
programsingle occupancy units
+programtown homes
adaptive reusefood businesses
interfacepedestrian corridor
+ civic usepublic program
institutional
+ interfacemarketing spot
+GRANARY OPPORTUNITIES
6:Topologies, Conditions, Opportunities:
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DESIGN CONCEPT
RENOVATED
ARCHITECTURE
ICONIC
ACTIVATED
MAJOR
INTERFACE
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+ the silo’s
+i-80 corridor
+pedestrian friendly
+bus lane
+sustainablecurb side drainage swale
+dedicated bike lane
+town-homes
+single occupancyunits
housing
circulation
urban
circulation
housing
circulation
+expanded sidewalkopen space
207,000 cars daily
+open spacetemporaryice rink
+urbanice climbing
+urbanolympic legacy
+economiccoffee shop
+open spacevenue park
+economicfarmers market
+urbanmovie screening+ single occupancy
units
housing
+ urbanactive recreation
+circulationpedestrian corridor
+economicoffice space
+economicconferencing
+urbanlive work play
+open spacepublic park
PRESERVING AUTHENTICITY
SEASONAL PROGRAMING
HUMAN SCALE INTERFACE
9:Architectural Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings: A cement factory is converted into a safe haven for big market conventions, local business entrepreneurship, and very visible active recreation catalyst.10:Affordable Housing And Transformed Streetscapes: A streetscape of 60 feet is shrunk by half, adding generous pedestrian walkways, town-home setbacks and in an effort for sustainable change in the district, curb side retention is introduced.11Active Community: Like a sports stadium, the open space beneath the silo icon is easily transformed from ice rink to concert venue to grassy open space for outdoor theater nights. An interface with the open market creates a symbiosis between public open space and economic prosperity.
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+economicconferencing event
+urbanolympic legacy
+economiccoffee shop+economic
rail car restaurant
+sustainabledistrict drainage swales
+economicoffice space
+open spacepark
+urbanrock climbing
+Bioremediationfilter for district wide drainage
+urbanziplining
+urbanrock climbing
+economicoffice space
+circulationpedestrian corridor+open space
public engagement
+urbanolympic legacy
+economiclocal business
+urbanspark core
+single occupancyunits
housing
+town-homeshousing
12the SLC street car and existing spark infrastructure. Bioremediation here will create a thriving park atmosphere, where ‘all eyes look towards the silos’ and the community can gather under some of Salt Lake Cities currently underutilized Olympic artifacts.13spark opportunity, and stimulate new growth along as of now underutilized roadways and trails networks. This is key to anchoring the programs for new investment and successful district regeneration.
OLYMPIC LEGACY
UNITING THE COMMUNITY
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