Gallery of submitted projects for the All You Can Eat: A Buffet Of Architectural Ideas For Cleveland architecture exhibition that took place at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, OH in late October, 2009. see postarchitecturejournal.wordpress.com for more info.

1. Cleveland
C h i c l it z & C h e r r y c o k e
a r e c o n c e r n e d t h at t h
e sp e c t er
o f “ l a n d s c ap e u r b a n i s
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h it e c t s f r o m
d e a l i n g w it h a r c h it e c
t u r a l i s s u e s , c o nt ent
t o i n st ead
m a k e v a g u e s y s t e m at i c
p r o p o s a l s ab o u t t h e u
s e of
v a c a n t l a n d . C h i c l it z
& C her r y c oke w ou ld l i
k e v ac a nt
u rb a n l a n d t o b e f i l l
e d u p w it h b u i l d i n g s .
Th i s i s a
p r o p o s a l fo r o n e s u c h
b u i l d i n g : a l i l’ s k yl i
ne bl i ng
fo r C l e v e l a n d , a n d a l
ev ela o v e l e t t e r t o t h e l at e
S o l L e W it t .
C l ay t o n C h i c l it z
R o n a ld C her r y c oke

2. the premise:
the beauty is already here.
the cleveland manifesto
1. capitalize on and construct framed views out [and in].
2. find ways to more fully engage the water and waterfront.
3. seek to encourage more informal engagement with the site as a
means to blur the public and the private.
4. work to engage and preserve the industrial character and
aesthetic of the site.
5. through carefully considered programmatic interventions,
we seek to redefine and instigate engagement with previously
uninviting spaces.
6. limit imposed developments to those that will increase
inherent uses and engagements of the site.
7. capitalize and increase the “inter-nodality” of structures
and spaces within the site.
8. strengthen and extend internal edges as a means to create
more visually intimate spaces within the site.
9. increase the vitality of existing and proposed networks so as
to encourage a vibrant connective tissue.
10. down with banality!
ann arbor 29 sep 2009
the plan: informal insertions in the interstitial spaces.
connective secondary axes of the columbus road peninsula, visually linking
defines the primary and
lighting
the existing and new programmatic elements without changing the physical character of the
site. foreground the beauty of post-industrial decay!
wedge parks
infill the urban fabric’s vacant lots and irregular spaces with informal parks. provide
“soft spaces” within the industrial landscape for visual and physical respites.
re-imagine urban public space from the formalized plaza to the informal wedge park,
allowing for a symbiotic relationship between industry and entertainment. see more green!
recreational trail
the recreation trail provides connections to the riverfront on the site and to the city at
large via a larger network of possible trails. it marks the edge of the site and defines
the edge condition in relation to the water without disturbing the current uses.
stop running in circles, cleveland!
a peninsula of connected fragments
variations on a green
scatter wild grass seeds on a currently vacant lot and create a flexible-space performance
park. change the program as often as it grows and you can mow a different configuration.
clear it, plant it, mow it!
college green. tball fly ball! flea or farmers’? shakespeare in the. when rodin visits. soccer mom square. urban maypole. tai chi in the morning.
the result: a city of connected fragments.
intersticity aims to embrace the existing, engage the
informal and test the limits of alternative urban
redevelopment. taking a multi-faceted approach,
intersticity capitalizes on the inherent industrial
character of the columbus road peninsula by
introducing a series of greenspaces and hardscaped
spaces that occupy the interstices and enhance the
existing urban fabric. these interventions further
this aim by embracing specific site conditions that
intersticity
the flats cleveland ohio
challenge and enhance their individual program
overall vision elements and work in tandem with one another and with
the city at large to create an alternative city.
joss kiely and brandon pence, with fernando velho

4. Instant Nightlife
Ryan Connolly
Proposal
Cleveland’s problems, just like the Rust Belt cities I have lived in, is not a “Cleveland Electro-Pop Festival, Bubbles 3,5,6,7,8,32,15 &
lack of culture, energy, inspiration, or creativity, but an absence of venues in 10, November 10-12,” will become typical of independently
which this creativity can be fully realized. My proposal then is an instant produced, organized, and freely hosted events that can use
deployment of these venues for living, chatting, performing, and congregating the bubbles as a form of self-empowerment, creation, and a
at night that double as iconic reminders of the energy that resides in all venue for creativity that has the drive but not the finances
Clevelanders during the day. to create great work.
A series of self-contained, room sized inflatable bubbles will be anchored During the day, the bubbles will float amongst the tops of
to empty sites across the city, floating high in the sky during the day and the many towers and high-rises that dot Downtown Cleveland.
descending upon the city at night. These bubbles will come in varying Their bright translucent colors will glisten in the sun as they
typologies, such as Meeting Place, Café, Theater, Performance Space, wave around in the cool Lake Erie breeze, representative of
and Lounging Place, among others. When they descend upon the city, the sleeping creative tiger that resides inside of all Clevelanders.
their ominous interior glow and bright colors will attract people inside to The city may become known as the “Bubble City”, a sort of 21st
transform the space in whatever way they can imagine. Completely open Century updating of the title “Rock City”, symbolic of Cleveland’s
source and open to the public, the bubbles would become a public asset, newfound cultural potency in an array of mediums and styles.
existing as a framework for public interventions and programmatic Completely self sustainable, the bubbles would harvest their own
designations beyond their pre-designed typologies. Social groups may energy from integrated solar panels and wind energy so that they
claim bubbles as their own, some may become synonymous with could maintain inflation and fuel their daily rise and descent.
particular events, shows, or artists. This Instant Nightlife would bring people into the city at night and
spur a cultural and economic renaissance, just by giving people
“Meet me at Bubble 5 on 9th at 9:00,” will become typical of the talk a venue in which toharvest their own vast creative energy.
overheard during the day at the workplace and in school as people anxiously
await the descent of the bubbles later that evening.
A Day in the Life
1. Wake up, get out of bed 2. Work the grind, 9 to 5, with bubbles
providing company outside the cubical
window
PUB
Corp.
3. Excited for the descent, people stay 4. INSTANT NIGHTLIFE descends upon
downtown after work, instead of speeding the city as the sun falls
home
5. Bubble rooms provide excitement, change, 6. As the sun rises, the bubbles rise as well
and variety, to enliven Cleveland back into their place as part of Cleveland’s
skyline.
Bubbles
Scale 1/16” = 1’-0
Performance Space Theater Space Cafe Space Lebensbubble Meeting Space Freibubble Bubble Bounce
Bubble Boat Pin Up Space Floating Bubble Speaker's Box-ubble Mystery Bubble Sponsor Bubble Broadcast Bubble
PBR
1893

7. WIND
WIND PARK CAR PARK
SECTION PLAN
740 EUCLID AVE
POST-Fab 44114-3005
a three-step process :
1.0) THREAT - Identify Modernist Icon under attack
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2.0) SUGGEST - Identify potential systems for POST-fabrication & dis-assemble
3.0) REPLACE - Identify site, re-assemble, re-birth
In communities and cities worldwide, modern icons of architecture are being removed daily. This is not a rally for a preservationists movement, but a call for potential POST-fabrication architecture
to exist. In this proposal, POST-fab 4.0, we suggest a National Park in Australia strictly for architecture, taken from a rural context to an urban environment.
In this process of POST-Fabrication, any building which was constructed out of pre-cast parts can be dis-assembled and relocated. This National Park for Architecture becomes a haven for the undesired.
With a trend toward structures independent of their sites, modernism continues through a process of re-birth. To save modernist icons from threat of demolition, they can be transplanted from their
current sites to the National Park. POST-fab allows the building to have a second life in a new context, rather than a solely programmatic makeover.
Cleveland’s own windmill is situated on the roof of the Euclid parking deck to generate the power necessary for the National Park, aka c arch park. The parking garage is still used in its original
form on the bottom floors, however the roof is transformed. Passerbys will see beacons inviting them to the park. Pre-cast units from concrete stave silos will be collected and compiled into an
inhabitable installation. The country comes to the city in this first urban National Park for Architecture.

8. Anyhow, Anyplace, Anywhere
Dane Danielson | Philadelphia
Nicole Hermo | Philadelphia
Jeffery Minor | Chicago
Kathy Lent | North Jersey
The city is a game. It brings certain dynamic “Could there be a place
impulses into a space that are new and whose true
quality relies on the city changing: inversion, instant where living in a rust belt
mutation, slow transformation. Each direction follows city actually increases the
a unique course and triggers something completely
different to come. Illustrating the theory that buildings
quality of life?’
have the power to feed themselves back into the real excesses and reconfigures them into a new form.
world, into the city. The possible outcomes are limit- Could this new form, so foreign in its aesthetic, start
less. Inevitably a dialogue develops where certain to resemble something familiar, something concrete;
scenarios start to play among themselves. As archi- yet provocative?
tects our goal is to speculate on our placement Our fantasy is principally based on exploration and
inside of these acts... discovery, placing the conceptual nature of urban
development at the forefront. This scheme invites
Imagine you booked what you thought would be a change and alteration to a cityscape with little or no
seemingly inexpensive urban vacation only to wake plan in place to guide the development of the pro-
up and realize that you might have arrived in hell. In cess. In fact, it is the moments of contradiction and
Cleveland, THE NEW AMERICAN CITY, a vanguard confounding urban dialogue created through this
of urban potential, the paradox of regeneration; you process of collage and collision that have the poten-
might overhear that the 'once thriving heart of the tial to become the most fascinating places. Through
city, is now a squalid and filthy slum.' However, these this iterative process we hope to envision a disrup-
same people might not be aware of the Bridge Proj- tion in the cityscape or completely destroy an ordi-
ect, Sustainable Farms, its proximity to Lake Erie, or nary existing urban fabric. Some cities have virtually
the breadth of manufacturing history, and emerging erased their identity through the upheaval of their
culinary culture. Cleveland has many qualities to roots in favor of a clean image. Others provide the
offer. best examples towards an adaptable city. Recent original photo | Merwin Avenue
examples including Philadelphia, New York, London,
The population continues to decrease and our intent Paris, and Chicago. In the future, good urban design
is to further deconstruct the terminal decline of will be much different than it was in the past.
Cleveland. Through this investigative process a
project will emerge that will examine the city as an Understanding and decoding cities, especially
image. At times throughout the process we will be unique places like Cleveland, is a phenomena. Re-
tasked with comprehending only what is on the sur- quiring each individual to learn how to ‘play’ and by
face of a city's walls. Certainly the act of judging a doing so they are making an attempt to understand
city's character by its appearance is profoundly obvi- urban patterns, perceptual blurs, repetitive
ous. Conversely, there is something alarmingly sequences, and fuzzy transitions. Through the pur-
attractive about taking two mundane surfaces and suit of understanding we will discover the impetus for
forcing these charged components together. There is change and identify opportunities both visible and
truth in that this process provides a sort of entertain- perceived.
ment and we recognize the perception of merely
making an aesthetic of ‘cool.’ Anyhow, Anyplace, Anywhere represents more of a
question than a title. How can the potential of Cleve- film clips
Through the very nature of our exploration and evo- land be revealed? Where does this change live and
lution of the deconstructive process a set of provoca- how can it be found? Is it universally applicable?
tive images can be displayed as evidence of whimsy These represent only a small portion of questions
in the cityscape. Via this set of images and construc- and it is our hope that more will come as the project
tions, an episode will materialize which gathers the evolves.

9. RdB DesignCorps Presents
IGLOO
+ + =
This multifaceted proposal calls first for the contraction
of three failing, southern-based National Hockey
League franchises, which will condense into one team
and relocate to Cleveland.
Chester The second angle involves the acquisition and reloca-
tion of Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena (aka The Igloo), to be
vacated by the Penguins following the 2009-10 season.
E. Specifically, the arena will be reconstructed on vacant
land in Midtown, at the intersection of East 55th Street
E. 6 and Euclid Avenue.
5 3
Conveniently located along the Health Line, the area is
5 easily accessible via public transit and expressway. Sur-
rounding lots could be appropriated for parking or
other service industry.
A major league hockey team -- the Cleveland Barons --
would be a great addition to local sports.
The (re)construction of an arena could revitalize Mid-
Euclid town and spur growth along the Euclid Corridor.
Plan
Rendering: Bird’s Eye
Shane Doan,
Future Captain,
Rendering: Euclid - East bound Cleveland Barons

11. JOSEPH.DIGIORGIO
e:joe@joedigiorgio.com
w:www.joedigiorgio.com
ct
prospe
nw corner perspective section 02 section 03 anchor one
a ‘lifestyle center’ approach glass facades, exterior spaces and beautiful views from all of the this corner anchor and
in an urban environment. a plenty of retail, restaurants and residences, public and private exterior future headquarters has
site with infinite opportunities activities will create an ‘allyoucaneat’ terraces and access to all of clevelands prime location in the city.
at the center of cleveland. experience with more than you can eat local entertainment will generate an with views to the river and
nested between q-arena amenities. there are no excuses why experience you’ve been waiting for. beyond, pedestrian traffic,
n and downtown nightlife, this you shouldn’t visit and support this curbside drop-off, exterior
e.
ro
hu downtown living experience.
4
high traffic site located at spaces, water features and
th
huron prospect and east 4th underground parking are just
will create an urban space a few of this sites
that is more important than capabilities.
the buildings!
north
ALLYOUCANEAT: CLEVELAND | HURON . PROSPECT . E.4TH
15 -20 story green residences
two,three bedrooms & penthouse 3k sf. exterior public space
exterior spaces/penthouse suites exhibition/gallery space
p
retail shops at lower levels w
water features
PROSPECT
center anchor element
grocery/retail/restaurants/museum/
theater/recreation/underground parking
2k sf. covered/heated seating
restaurant patios
market retail shops
20-25 story residential
private exterior spaces
E. 4
TH
15-20 story green residences
studio,convertible,
R ON one and two bedrooms
HU retail at lower levels
33k sf. create&borrow* corporate headquarters
exterior spaces/public/private
automated storage & retrieval system (asrs)

12. Kyle Monroe Dunnington
Emily Milliman
wix.com/liminal/architecture
Park on the Bridge
amputecture@live.com
emily.milliman@gmail.com
( Tr a n s f o r m i n g t h e D e t r o i t S u p e r i o r B r i d g e S u b w a y Tu n n e l i n t o a n U r b a n P a r k )
With the lack of What if the bridge was
a year round public
public space and
space that was both
infrastructure in sustainable and safe?
Cleveland, we pro- The former subway
pose a solution tracks will be con-
which combines the verted into a series of
two: a green infra- paths, planting native
structure which species of the Cleve-
land area. Our inter-
allows the people
vention would rein-
to visit and/or pass vigorate the space
through. In its through art, green
current state, the space, and local pro-
subway tunnel of duce. The project will
the Detroit Supe- bring a rebirth to
rior Bridge is a di- subway tunnel while
embracing and high-
lapidated, forgot-
lighting the bridge’s
ten space. It is a history, juxtaposing
place of tremen- the old structure and
dous views of the new greenery. The
river, the ware- recent Bridge Project
house district and showed that people will
downtown; a place enthusiastically use the
space, but the bridge
which is not being
needs a more perma-
utilized to its full nent, long term solu-
potential. The re- tion. What if it was a
vitalization of the home for art and ven-
bridge will breathe dors? Imagine a park
life into the bridge like the High Line of
and the surrounding N e w Yo r k C i t y l i n k i n g
two important parts of
area as it draws
Cleveland. Imagine an
both local and dis- o u t d o o r We s t S i d e
tant visitors. Market where local
produce was sold.
Imagine a greener
Cleveland
G a r d e n P e r s p e c t i v e : Semi-circular garden beds shape a path for visitors to walk along, composed of a mixture of perennials and local Cleveland
species which require minimal sunlight. Recycled PVC pipes line the garden space and provide a sculptural watering system
Market Perspective: Provides a place for vendors to meet the community and to display and sell their produce. Folding wooden shelves allow vendors to Art Gallery Perspective: 4’x4’ cubes can be stacked in different variations to display artwork from local artists.
display goods, and fold up when unused for multiple uses of the space. Recycled sailboat sails flap in the wind and mimic the river below.
Plan: The bridges three separate areas are split into three different functions: an outdoor market-place, an art exhibition space, and a garden walk/bike path Glass Floor
Art Gallery
Garden
Market
Section: Minimal designs have been added to enhance the structure and beauty of the existing bridge, juxtaposing the new and the old. Perspective of Glass Floor: Glass panels will be installed between existing beams to increase the bridges
inhabitable area, as well as becoming an attraction with view of the river below.
Market Garden Art Gallery

14. THE CLEVELAND URBAN AGRICULTURE RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE
A HALF BAKED PLAN FOR REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN TRIANGLE (AND OTHER AREAS ADJACENT TO THE RTA’S REDLIN
OR EXCERPTS FROM SKATEBOARDING WITH SIMMEL BY THEODORE FERRING
COMMUTE START COMMUTE END COMMUTE START
CEDAR HILL
COMMUTE END CEDAR HILL
TOWER CITY
E. 105TH
TOWER CITY E. 105TH
RUI
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COMMUTE PATH
E. 34TH
E. 79TH
E. 79TH
E. 34TH
COMMUTE PATH NOTE: THE VARIOUS COLORS REPRESENT VARIOUS VACANCY E. 55TH
TYPES INCLUDING FORECLOSURES, SHERIFF SALES,
LANDBANKED PARCELS, AND JUST GOOD OLD GENERAL
ABANDONED PROPERTY. ALL DATA IS CIRCA 2007.
E. 55TH
FIGURE GROUND VS. VACANCY
THE PLAN FOR UTILIZING THE VAST SWATHS OF VACANT AND ABANDONED LAND ALONG THE RTA’S REDLINE FROM UNIVERSITY CIRCLE TO DOWNTOWN IS ROOTED IN EXPERIENCE AS VIEWED FROM THE RTA’S REDLINE LIGHT RAIL, USING VIDEO AS A TOOL
FOR ANALYSIS AND DESIGN. THE DRAWINGS DISPLAYED FOCUS ON SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS FROM THEODORE FERRINGER’S KENT STATE UNIVERSITY MASTERS OF URBAN DESIGN THESIS PROJECT, SKATEBOARDING WITH SIMMEL. THE ORIGINAL WORK WAS
DEVELOPED AND PRESENTED USING VIDEO AS THE SOLE PRESENTATION MEDIUM. THE PROJECT WAS LOCATED ALONG A TYPICAL DAILY COMMUTE, FROM THE CEDAR FAIRMOUNT NEIGHBORHOOD IN CLEVELAND HEIGHTS TO DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND.
NEW BIKE PATH COMMUTE START
COMMUTE END
TOWER CITY CEDAR HILL
SERIES
SERIES
SERIES 6
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3 E. 79TH
IES
NEW BIKE PATH
E. 55TH S ER The CUARC would focus its development utilizing
vacant properties adjacent to the RTA’s Redline
passenger rail corridor. Industrial rail and other
needed infrastructure needs are already in place as
SERIES 4
RIES
IE
IES
IES
ES a result of the location’s history as an industrial area
in Cleveland. Developments would include Transit
Oriented Development at existing rail stations, as well
as the implementation of a new bike trail network,
better connecting east side neighborhoods through
parcels shaded will not all be used in the project, but
POTENTIAL PROPERTIES FOR CUARC INVESTMENT NEW BIKE PATH are merely potential locations for development.
‘ONE ONLY HAS TO OPEN ONE’S EYES TO UNDERSTAND THE DAILY LIFE OF THE ONE WHO RUNS FROM HIS DWELLING TO THE STATION, NEAR OR FAR AWAY, TO THE PACKED UNDERGROUND TRAIN, THE OFFICE, OR FACTORY, TO RETURN THE SAME WAY IN THE EVENING AND COME HOM
RECUPERATE ENOUGHT TO START AGAIN THE NEXT DAY. THE PICTURE OF THIS GENERALIZED MISERY WOULD NOT GO WITHOUT A PICTURE OF ‘SATISFACTIONS’. WHICH HIDES IT AND BECOMES THE MEANS TO ELUDE IT AND BREAK FREE FROM IT.’ HENRI LEFEBVRE FROM THE RIGHT TO THE
CUARC would employ a closed
Mass production of algae to be used as biofuel as an alternative to both traditional fossil fuels and biofuels
loop system that allows for a high
that often use precious food resources to create fuel, thereby driving up food prices, has the potential to
completely alter how fuel demands can be meet in the 21st century. While, not quite yet able to compete as a
compared to traditional
commercially viable solution, many companies and research organizations, from NASA, ExxonMobil, and Glenn
techniques of growing algae in
Kertz of Valcent Products, one of the foremost researches into algae’s potential as a full fossil fuel replacement.
large ponds, where it could only
ExxonMobil alone has recently invested close $600 million into algae fuel R&D.
survive on the surface in un-
controlled conditions.
The potential for Cleveland as an algae fuel center exists. With our in place industrial infrastructure and wide
swaths of vacant land and industrial buildings, through the CUARC, Cleveland would position itself as a leader
n the exciting potential of algae biofuel, bringing about a true green industrial revolution. As much of our Glenn Kertz of Valcent Products
vacant land has serve environmental concerns that prevent one from doing much of anything from it, algae Some estimates have algae with a typical closed loop
production presents itself as a viable alternative as a use that allows for a re-programming of our industrial capable of having a 100,000 to hanging bag system that would
heritage without creating an environmental threat. 150,000 gallon yield per acre / be employed by CUARC in
WHAT IS ALGAE FARMING? year! Cleveland.
‘THE TOOL OF DIGITAL VIDEO, COMBINED TO SOME EXTENT WITH THE MORE CLASSICAL MEANS OF TOPOGRAPHIC AND ARCHITECTONIC REPRESENTATION, WOULD ENABLE ONE TO FORMULATE SUCH A SYNTHETIC VISION OF A SITE, WHERE THE RELATIVITY OF TIME, SPACE, AND MOTION AR
PRESENT. THE COMPRESSION OF THESE ASPECTS INTO A SINGLE GAZE WOULD, IN FACT, PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR A FOUR DIMENSIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF LANDSCAPE. THIS NEW TOOL COULD DELIVER AN ALMOST IMMEDIATE ASSESSMENT OF VERY COMPLEX SETTINGS, REDEFINING COMPLETELY
ART OF OBSERVATION.’ CHRISTOPHER GIROT FROM VISION IN MOTION: REPRESENTING LANDSCAPE IN TIME
GUIDELINES FOR THE CLEVELAN
URBAN AGRICULTURE
COLLABORATIVE
A PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
GENERAL GUIDELINES
SERIES 1
Massing study for TOD 1. Farmland will consist of public/private partnerships bet
at E.105. Bridge painted the CUAC & private partners. Private partners will own and
orange to denote bike path
crossing.
and research, while assisting farmers to ensure proper susta
management.
2. If no private partners can be found for a particular
suitable for agricultural uses, if it so wishes, CUAC will ma
and own parcels, employing students and others interest
simply do not wish to own their own land for farming.
4. All land will be used for the appropriate programm
agricultural use is not deemed appropriate due to environm
or other concerns, other uses will be investigated.
3. Owners wishing to remain on their property and con
to own it, will still have the option to lease their land to
SERIES 2
farmers or CUAC wishing to expand their own farms, o
wishing the responsibility of land ownership.
Algae Production Facility
+ Farming
BLOCK WIDE VACANCY
1. When a block exhibits greater then 60% parcel vaca
conversion to agricultural uses will take place. Agriculture c
consist of any of the following items:
A. Pasture: livestock grazing
B. Cash crop: corn, soy, sorghum, wheat, barley herbs,
tomatoes, beans, etc.
C. Orchard: apples, oranges, lemons, strawberries,
blueberries, grapes, etc.
D. Energy production: algae
E. Tree farming
2. Owners of occupied structures within the converted
SERIES 3
Algae Production Facility
land block shall have the option of remaining on the farmla
+ Farming rehabilitated structures. Owners remaining within the con-
in exchange for accepting some responsibility for farming t
adjacent land, and support from uatu in establishing farms
3. Abandoned buildings within the converted farmland
block shall be re-imagined as ancillary farming support stru
tures when possible. Some potential new uses for existing v
structures include: greenhouse, stable, barn, silo, livestock s
ter, etc.
4. Where 2 blocks facing one another exhibit greater t
60% vacancy and the street separating the 2 blocks is consi
a minor thoroughfare, the street between the blocks mayb
SERIES 4
Algae Production Facility
converted into contiguous parcels of farmland.
+ Farming @ E55th Street CONTIGUOUS PARCELS
Station
1. If a block exhibits 4 adjacent vacant parcels or less, t
the contiguous parcels shall be converted into public garde
for block owners use. Public gardens shall be cultivated for
purposes of providing tillable land for locally grown produc
maintained by the block owners. It shall be at the block ow
discretion whether the resulting produce is kept for private
or used for resale. Public gardens may consist of the follow
items: tomatoes, cabbage, potatoes, herbs, etc.
2. If a block exhibits greater then four adjacent parcels
but less then 60% overall vacancy, the then contiguous par
shall be converted to agricultural use. Same guidelines app
above.
SERIES 5
Algae Production + Pas-
GAP TOOTH VACANCY
sive Soils Remediation 1. If a block exhibits 25% or less vacancy then the vaca
parcels shall be rehabilitated for habitable use. Owners
to the renovated structures.
2. Side-lot vacancies or 1 vacant parcel surrounded by
ownership of vacant parcels provided they accept responsib
for its maintenance.
3. If adjacent parcel owners do not claim adjacent parc
3 or more block owners may acquire the property for use
as a private garden, playground, etc. Provided they accept
responsibility for its maintenance.
SERIES 6
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21. E 55th St Corridor Splay
All You Can EAT:
Proposal
Site
Program

25. cliff
dwellings
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last
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be
first elev. 668
The project incorporates a single-room occupancy [SRO] homeless shelter, an emergency clinic, a new chapel for the Church of St. Malachi
and support facilities into a public infrastructural intervention that highlights the topography of the Cuyahoga River valley, allowing access to the
riverbed and the lower level of the Detroit-Superior Bridge. Housing the poor in exalted positions overlooking the sanctuary and the river valley,
the project aims to reintegrate our forgotten spaces and our forgotten citizenry.
elev. 650
looking northeast from west 25th & detroit
elev. 638
looking southwest from riverbed elev. 608
longitudinal section

28. scene
As one of Cleveland’s most blighted neighborhoods,
1
Central is a dystopia of vacant lots and abandoned NEW CORE
EXISTING PLAZA
buildings. Poor socio-economic conditions
are the antagonists to the community, with
statistics sharply contrasted with lows and highs.
A scene of low high school graduation rates, high
unemployment,poverty rates and birth rates to single
mothers begs for creative educational resources.
Set on the corner of Central Avenue and East
67th Street, railroad tracks separate it from the
Fairfax neighborhood. The site hosts a series of
dilapidated industrial buildings. An adaptation BUILT AREA NEW GEOMETRY
of structures will create the ideal setting for
a media arts education center to serve the
young audience of community residents.
An adaptive reuse of the existing industrial
buildings will provide the backdrop for coupling
the sustainability with media arts while preserving
the Central neighborhood’s rich heritage. Gut
renovations of the three main buildings will
extend the life cycle of the building stock
and reduce environmental impacts from new EXI
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construction. Salvaged materials would be reused
in interior and exterior finishes and landscaping.. MOVEMENT DIAGRAM
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Film has the ability to take the viewer into an alternate
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reality where their perceptions are transformed
and enhanced. The foundational unit of the film is
the still frame image. Movement is the means
through which the evolution of the still is read. Our
site will become a series of episodic stills that
are activated by the movement of its inhabitants.
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With over 60% of the population of the Central
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neghborhood being below the age of 30, a
media arts education center will create
an exciting venue for learning audio, digital
and visual arts and experiencing life as though
it were on the silver screen. Additionally,
it will be safe and fun environment where
children and families can learn and play together.
Computer Labs Studios Screening Room
Courtyard Gallery Live/Work GALLERY AND COURTYARD SECTION I
COURTYARD: COMPUTER LAB: SECTION II STUDIO: SECTION III
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The circulation finds its way through a gallery
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atrium, screening areas and winds down into
studios and computer labs. The courtyard plays
against the axis of the gallery and creates views
of the widescreen stretching across the rear
building which holds lease space for artists,
enterprenuers in a live/work environment.
At the convergence of the old and the new
architecturally, the three-story gallery space
provides a wonderfully dramatic experience
by way of projecting mezzanines. On the
mastered
remastered
exterior, the steel super-structure that defines
the gallery space gently peaking beyond the
roofline of the original building acting dually as
signage for the building and providing the Central
Neighborhood with a distinct character and sense
of place for the site and the greater community.
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