portfolio 2007-2011

J A M E S P H I L I P F A R G A S O NPortfolio. 2007 - 2011

URBAN DESIGN

Sydhavn Mas te r P lan

Havnes taden P laza

URBAN INF ILL ARCHITECTURE

Cherokee S t ree t M ixed Use

La faye t te Square L ib ra ry L i ve / Work / Show fo r Locus t S t ree t

ARCHITECTURE OF PHENOMENON

Caronde le t Park Poo l

BUILT WORK Patrick Henry Learning Landscape

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CONTENTS

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(14 -19)

(20 -23)

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Irma Grocery Quick&GoCafe Awada

Current Situation: Dispersed settlements.

Phase 1: Development along major streets.

Phase 2: Development on side streets creates a new district.

PROBLEM: Because of their isolation, Teglholmen and Sluseholmen developments (pop. 7,500)can support only 3 commercial storefronts.

A SOLUTION: Focusing development along streets connecting to other city districts.

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S Y D H A V N M A S T E R P L A NFRAMEWORK FOR AN INTERCONNECTED NEW DISTRICT

New developments in the South Harbor suffer from isolation. Typically located along the high-value edges of old industrial docks, they have no through streets connecting them to other neighborhoods. The result is that these areas are unable to establish street activity or commerce. I attempt to reverse this trend by making connection the key to my masterplan for the South Harbor. I look beyond the level of single developments and begin to think of this rapidly growing area as a new city district, centered around a network of major through streets. Copenhagen’s successful districts each contain a series of major boulevards or “gade(s)” which provide transportation and commercial activity for the surrounding residential area. My scheme follows this model and centers all of the new dis-trict’s vibrant activities onto these major streets.

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Quick&Go

COMBINED MASTERPLAN Out of the existing industrial context and Arkitema’s vision

for the South Harborand future context select key areas for ad-

ditional development around two major proposed streets.

Existing Residential Areas

Proposed Areas of Devel-opment

S-Train Metro Stop

Proposed Boulevards

Proposed Bridges

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RECREATIONAL HARBOR FRONTA CONNECTION FOR CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANSWith this connection I seek to use pedestrian and cyclist traffic to activate the South Harbor’s waterfront. Connecting to an existing boardwalk running into downtown, this path connects the edges of each of the converted docks. A dense series of storefronts and public spaces along this path makes the South Harbor path an attraction both to commuters and those seek-ing recreation.

PUBLIC SPACE SECTION

TYPICAL SECTION

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Commercial StorefrontBikePath

BoardwalkHarborSeating

Residential CourtyardStorefrontBikePath

Board-walk

Harbor

Temporary Public Structure

Courtyard

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Network

Semi-Public

Courtyards

MODIFIED COURTYARD TYPOLOGY

TYPICAL SECTION

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Connect the site with cycle paths and bridges.

PROGRESSION OF SITE DEVELOPMENTThe Harbor Path develops in phases in which I activate the path and surround-ing spaces before constructing buildings. This plan unfolds in 3 parts:

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With this connection I seek to use pedestrian and cyclist traffic to activate the South Harbor’s waterfront. Connecting to an existing boardwalk running into downtown, this path connects the edges of each of the converted docks. A dense series of storefronts and public spaces along this path makes the South Harbor path an attraction both to commuters and those seek-ing recreation.

Create nodes of public activity with temporary spaces and events2.

Existing Industrial Docks

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Create a Mixed-Use development which focuses commercial activity onto the harbor path.

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SOUTH HARBOR PATH PUBLIC SPACE SURROUNDING A PRO-POSED MARKET

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OUTDOOR MARKET:An example of a public space node after completing all three stages of develop-ment. In this example the bike path and market would be built and used before developing any permanent built structures

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The second connection in the masterplan is a traditional boulevard, similar to those in the other city districts. The South Harbor’s boulevard will connect to the dense Vesterbro neighborhood to the North and provide public transport access to the new district.

As on all of Copenhagen’s city boulevards, the buildings on this street will be an eclectic set of mixed-use buildings, providing the district with commerce and restaurants, as well as offices, institutions, and large retail stores that thrive on only in the most connected and highly trafficked areas.

DISTRICT BOULEVARDA CONNECTION FOR BUSINESS AND TRANSIT

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MVRDV’s Gemini building towers over the pla-za site. The site is exposed, and ill equipped to handle the heavy commuter cyclist traffic that it recieves.

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H A V N E S T A D E N P L A Z ASPACE FOR COMMERCE AND GATHERING IN AN UNDERUTILIZED NEIGHBORHOOD

This project is an urban plaza. The site is in the center of the new Havnestaden neighborhood, and is critically located at the landing point of a recently constructed pedestrian bridge. This connection brings hundreds of people through the site each day, but currently the buildings and spaces of Havnest-aden are not scaled to encourage pedestrians to stay. My proposal for the plaza seeks to utilize this existing through traffic to create a vibrant public space at the center of Havnestaden

Residential Building

Commercial Store Front

Kiosk

NettoRestaurante Prego

Apotec

Wulf

Brugsen

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TH’ Sandwitch

Cafe Langebro

7elevenFakta

SAGAKiosk

WokAwaySushiya

Food Palce

Artilleri Cf.

Hiko Pizzaria

Bageri ConditoriCafe Isbornen

Cafe HarlsborgNabilo Pizzaria and Grill

Hedelin Coffee APSIslands Brygges Kulturhus

Islands Brygge ApotecRestaurante Prego

HAVNESTADEN V.S. ISLANDS BRYGGE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AS A MEASURE OF VIBRANCY

Havnestaden lacks street activity. This is apparent in the small number of storefronts that Havnestaden can support ascompared to neighboring Islands Brygge, an area of a similar size and population.

I attribute this lack of commerce to two factors: the nearby Fisketorvet mall, and the form of the buildings in Havnestaden, which are incompatible with commercial uses. My plan for this plaza is to create a space for alternative busi-nesses to grow and exist in an outdoor, truly public space.

2 food-service storefronts operate within 10 min. walking distance of the Havnestaden site.

Green Space

Office Building

21 food-service storefronts operate inside the Fisketorvet mall.

26 food-service storefronts operate within 10 min. walking

distance of the center of Islands Brygge.

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Kiosk

Brugsen

TH’ Sandwitch

Cafe Langebro

Fakta

WokAway

Food Palce

Bageri Conditori

Hedelin Coffee APS

A SOLUTION: ARMATURE FOR COMMERCE I propose to encourage commercial activity in Havnestaden by creating spaces for small businesses to set up outdoor commercial structures. These zones, such as the Amsterdam tulip market, allow small businesses to set up in busy public spaces for an affordable price.

PROBLEM: PREVENTATIVE BUILDING FORM Modernist-style residential buildings in Havnestaden do not provide the possibility for commercial uses on street level. In most buildings major renovations would be needed to put in storefronts.

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Facilitate transportation desire lines, funneling into harbor bridge.

Seating area framing harbor view.

PLAZA FOR MOVING AND STAYING

Block winds on exposed West and South-ern edges.

SECTION THROUGH VARIED USES

The design for the plaza caters to two major user groups: bike commuters and neighborhood residents. I create seperate but linked zones for these different groups and their different speeds of travel.

BIKE COMMUTERS

PEDESTRIANSAND RESIDENTS

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SECTION THROUGH VARIED USES

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Washington University in St. Louis PROFESSOR IAIN FRAISER SPRING 2010

Projected Private Spaces: Floors 2-3

Street Facade: Floor 1

Market Entrance

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(Top Left)Spatial Scheme for the building facade and multiple uses.

C H E R O K E E S T R E E T M I X E D - U S EVIEWS AND MULTIPLE PROGRAMS ENCOURAGE STREET LIFE

(Bottom Left)La Vallesana serves the city’s best Mexican food from a shack adjacent to my development

(Top Right)My develpment replaces a Mexican grocery store. I seek to replace this displaced pro-gram with a market.

This project is a mixed- use development designed in the center of one of St. Louis’ newest reviving areas, Cherokee Street. Heavily blighted until recently, hispanic immigrangs have begun to revitalized this area into a young and hip area with small restaurants and art galleries.

Becasues of the sensitivity of the street, when asked to develop a mixture of retail, office, and residential on a 1400 sq. foot area, I made the focus of my project to avoid the-monolithic and pristeen, to create a building with multiple spaces, and a great number of intricate views for pedestrians to explore.

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SERIAL-VISION FACADECREATING STREET VIBRANCY THROUGH CHANGING VIEWS

View From Market Entrance

View From Corner

SERIAL VISION FACADE VIBRANCY THROUGH CHANGING VIEWS

The key element of this design is the way that it addresses Cherokee Street. I attempt to create a number of public and private spaces that are connected visually to the street: Living rooms, balconies, conference rooms, storefronts, and the larger market space. This serves to put as much life on the street as possible.

In addition, I want this building to serve those who are simply passing by on the street. I do this by twisting the protrusions on the second and third floors so that the views of the building are vastly different from different perspectives along the side-walk. This is a desirable affect that theorists such as Gordon Cullen ascribe to Medieval city centers. I attempt to create such an affect through the facade of a single building.

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Perspective From Cherokee Street

Elevation From Cherokee Street

Partial Plan Level 2

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L A F A Y E T T E S Q U A R E L I B R A R YCREATING PUBLIC SPACE FOR A COMMUNITY

This project is a Library that seeks to activate a key location in the newly transformed Lafayette Square Neighborhood. Located on the corner of Park Ave. the neighborhood’s major through street, and accross the street from Lafayette Square park, I seek to create a building that serves as a much-needed community gathering space as well as a space for learning.

Facade transparency indicates active areas: Cafe and Reading Atrium

Skylights shed light on masonry interiors separating active and quiet spaces.

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(Bottom Left)Building entrance off Park Ave, the heart of the rehabilitated Lafayette Square.

(Right)Entrance Moment

L A F A Y E T T E S Q U A R E L I B R A R YCREATING PUBLIC SPACE FOR A COMMUNITY

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Reading Room Cafe

TWO ACTIVE SPACES The below plan and elevation show the active community spaces that I seek to cre-ate in this library project highlighted in light blue. The first is an atrium and reading room from which all of the circulation of the bulding and stacks are available. The second is a cafe that sits on the site’s corner accross from the park as an almost independant

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USING LIGHT AS SPATIAL DIVIDER In order to frame the Library’s active spaces and separate them from more formal reading and book stack areas I bring the masonry veneer from the exterior of the building into the interior to create the feeling of a courtyard space when in these more active areas. Sklights bring light down along these dividers to increase this effect.

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L I V E / W O R K / S H O WCONTINUOUS SPACE FOR ARTIST HOUSING

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Locust Street

Floor 2

Floor 1

Floor 3

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Locust Street

Floor 2

Floor 1

Floor 3

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Locust Street

Floor 2

Floor 1

Floor 3

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L I V E / W O R K / S H O WCONTINUOUS SPACE FOR ARTIST HOUSING

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C A R O N D E L E T PA R K P O O LCREATING A LANDSCAPE NARRATIVE

In this project I seek to take the first step to a more active and cohesive Carondelet Park through the design of an indoor swimming pool. I began the project by studying movement within the park’s spaces, and chose to locate my project in a way that would activate an underused part of the park’s main attraction, the Carondelet Park lake.

I then attempt to craft an experince of moving from an elevated location, overlooking the lake down to the pool level, and to create light effects along the N walll of the pool that change along this progression to encourage movement through the spaces.

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PA T R I C K H E N R Y L E A R N I N G L A N D S C A P EA PLACE FOR CHILDREN TO LEARN AND PLAY IN NATIVE LANDSCAPES

This project is a learning garden for elementary school students at the Patrick Henry Downtown Academy. We converted their asphalt back lot into a combination of a veg-etable garden and outdoor classroom, and a free play native landscape.

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