East St. Louis Action Research Project University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Part Three

 
 

Part Three:	Project Definition and Master Planning Two weeks, 10% of final grade
Week 6.  Feb 22-Feb 26	Weds Feb 24: Part Two Introduction:  Project Definition - Delphi analysis
	Thurs Feb 25: ArcView and the Neighborhood Condition Survey:  319 Buell Hall, 1:00pm.  Abhijeet Chavan, 244-6076  Deanna Koenigs, 333-2939
Week 7.  Mar 1-Mar5	Thurs Mar 4 and Fri Mar 5: Project Reviews.  Two weeks, 10% of final grade. 1:00pm  Project Definition and Master Plans

Project Definition and Master Planning -- 
Work as Teams

But ... you are encouraged to change team composition at this stage as long as the emerging teams have equal numbers of Architecture and Landscape Architecture students

Operating principles

• dissolve teams
• invite students to reform teams
• there should be ten teams
• each should include (approximately) two landscape architects and two architects
• teams will likely be comprised with a hybrid research background
• teams should brain-storm to determine which issues they think are most important (based on literature search, and based on this weekend's resident interviews) and to determine a project definition.

ASSIGNMENT 3a: Project Definition statement

To help you develop this statement, answer the following questions:
 

• What is the extent of your project?  Provide maps and diagrams from ArcView or the EGRETS database to show the boundaries of the area of study.
• What are the community issues your project will address?
• What are the key resource issues you think will need to be considered in your analysis?
• What sources of information, technical tools, and access to resources will you require?

This project statement will become part of the semester project but you will be free to change the details later as you find new opportunities or have to abandon some of your initial ideas.
 

Internal review - These ideas will presented for internal (UIUC) review March 4 and 5 as part of our regular mid-semester reviews.
Client review - Selected projects will be presented at the Alta Sita Neighborhood meeting on the evening of March 9. Input from that meeting will be a major determining factor in choosing projects for development for the remainder of the semester.

We have identified a number of candidate project types but your group is invited to refine, amend or substitute other proposals through discussion with the instructors.
 

Infill housing - ranch style vs. contextural/vernacular
Historic districts - identify boundaries, develop guidelines
Industrial districts (active) - design solutions for visual/environmental amelioration
Special housing - sheltered housing for elderly, single mothers, job skills development
Industrial districts (abandoned) - design solutions for re-use
Mt Zion special district - planning for growth and maturity of church precinct
Infrastructure problems - master planning solutions for transportation, flood control
Virginia Park - development plans in collaboration with Alta Sita neighbors
Delapidated structures - alternative and temporary site uses
EZ area agenda - master planning for EZ implementation
Neighborhood shopping (26th & Bond) - design and guidelines for node development
Low income housing projects - design improvements at existing locations
New low income housing - design of new locations
Open space planning - integrated plan for  the use of currently abandoned land
Youth employment - identify development opportunities incorporating job training

ASSIGNMENT 3b: Master Planning

• You will present to the March 4 and 5 reviews using the projector in 325 and may use more than the minimum material

 
• Selected material will be displayed at the neighborhood meeting on March 9th -- so a selection of your work must be prepared ready for mounting and display on 18x24 inch panels as before. BUT - no more than three panels per group.

Minimum requirements:

Colored illustrative plan - at scale to show entire project context but fit on web page to print at 8.5x11 inch landscape format.  Use graphic scales for flexibility in reproduction
Detail cross-sectional/elevational sketches - at 1/4"=1 foot scale equivalent and/or perspective sketches to illustrate the experience of being there
Descriptive text - minimum 500 words of  to describe the major issues your scheme will address, and the major attributes of your proposal
Maps selected from EGRETS/NCS - to support your assertions in the description
Published to web - all work must be published to web as before.  All board displays must be reproducible direct from web with the use of a photocopier to enlarge.

Notes:

• all projects should be comprehensive plans of either the entire neighborhood (e.g., for infrastructure, EZ, open space) or of selected areas (e.g., VP historic district, Mt Zion utopian community, Alta Sita neighborhood core)
• comp plans should be holistic as to building types, open space issues, etc.
• later in the semester buildings, parks, etc may become the design project focus
• the most convincing presentations, and the best of class determined by us and reviewers will go to Alta Sita
• ASNI will react to projects to give you direction for the rest of the semester
• teams may change their concepts to approach the neighborhood goals more closely if necessary (teams will continue as constituted for the remainder of the semester)
• again at the end of the semester the best are selected for exhibition and travel to AS
• we go out in a bang!

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