SITES

We have two sites to explore, they appear to be similar but have major differences and characteristics which set them apart. Both are located in Soho in New York City and are a city grid "wedge", spaces where a triangular traffic island is formed between streets at major pedestrian and vehicular intersections. Our aim is to eventually create images of what these street spaces can become. Click on the "images" button on top to see photographs.

Site 1:
Space at the streets defined by Kenmare, Spring, Lafayette and Cleveland. The island defined by these streets is referred to as Petrosino Park. This space is underused and currently has a fenced in no-man's area with no places to attract residents, nearby workers or visitors. The site has no specific attraction element while some trees and most parts of the site are in a completely dilapidated condition. We will consider that we have a clean slate to work with.
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Site 2:
Space defined by Broome, Watts, West Broadway and Thompson streets. This site still has an unmarked triangle on the city maps, as it used to be motorcycle parking in the wedge between the street. Trees and some kind of park has recently been created in this space. Even so, it is in a rather poor condition and is not kept up. It seems to get somewhat of a better use due to the some seating arrangement. We will ignore this recent addition altogether, trees and all. Assume as in the other park that we have a clean slate.
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Class models. Group projects:
In a team of half class each,* we will build 2 site models of our site conditions. Each six member team should include 3 Architecture students and three Industrial Design students. 2 prepare the base with sidewalks, 2 prepare half of the buildings, 2 prepare the other half of the buildings. The city plans (Sanborn maps) are available in the links above, showing dimensions of storefronts, heights of buildings etc.
Each model should scale to 400'x300'. This equals to 1'-0"=100'-0". So the base of each model measures 4'x3'.
This will provide us with ample street space to place in our future models of lighting, benches etc and the model becomes our "streetscape" model for our final project.