THE REVIVAL
THE REVIVAL
A FORMAL SOLUTION TO A FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM
TIVOLY AVENUE | BALTIMORE, MD | USA UNDERGRADUATE SUBMISSION - STUDIO PROJECT This study, located along Tivoly Avenue - a street in a struggling Northeast Baltimore community, aims to bring vitality to the neighborhood by searching for new building forms and an alternative living experience for the city. Long plagued by drug trafficking, crime and vacancy, Tivoly is one of the areas targeted by the city’s most recent urban renewal initiatives, where 98 row homes were recently demolished. As it stands, the land along Tivoly remains undeveloped and ripe for opportunity. The Revival explores strategies to elevate the standard of living and shift the negative attitudes associated with the area by testing innovative formal interventions to address the functional challenges of the previous building types. The Revival experiments with introducing novel form to the streetscape and increasing diversity of residential building types. The tapered walls take away the need for a party-wall and introduces 2 new facades for fenestration to further illuminate the interior. The walls also create a varying spatial experience in width from the floor to the ceiling. The apartments to the rear of the lot are reclaimed shipping containers re-purposed, retrofitted and stacked to function as structure for the apartments. This cost and time effective construction has the potential to be a trend-setter in providing low-cost durable living solutions for under-served communities without compromising the quality of the living environment. Along with iconic form, The Revival offers a central open space to the apartment and row house tenants to function as a community space. This space has clear sight-lines to the street and is visible from the unit surrounding it, making it both secure and communal. The Revival challenges compromised open/communal space of the rowhouse and apartment housing types by studying density and diversity of housing through formal spatial transformations.
VIEW FROM TIVOLY AVENUE. Pedestrian friendly sidewalk and visual porosity with the street.
Y LE AL VO
TI LY E AV FIRST LEVEL FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’
SECOND LEVEL FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’
LATITUDINAL SITE SECTION 1/16” = 1’
LONGITUDINAL SITE SECTION 1/16” = 1’
DIAGRAMS
CENTRAL SPACE SERVES AS A COMMUNITY AMENITY WITH CLEAR VISIBILITY FROM THE UNITS. Street visibility improves security as well all creates a feeling of openness making the space feel larger.
SITE CIRCULATION. Street access to the property. Entrances are adjacent to each other to promote interaction with neighbors.
ROWHOUSE PARKING. Street and designated parking.
APARTMENT
VIEW FROM APARTMENT FRONT DECK ON SECOND LEVEL
VIEW FROM EAST SITE BOUNDARY LOOKING INTO THE COMMUNITY SPACE
PHYSICAL MODEL 1/8” = 1’
A FORMAL SOLUTION TO A FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM
TIVOLY AVENUE | BALTIMORE, MD | USA UNDERGRADUATE SUBMISSION - STUDIO PROJECT This study, located along Tivoly Avenue - a street in a struggling Northeast Baltimore community, aims to bring vitality to the neighborhood by searching for new building forms and an alternative living experience for the city. Long plagued by drug trafficking, crime and vacancy, Tivoly is one of the areas targeted by the city’s most recent urban renewal initiatives, where 98 row homes were recently demolished. As it stands, the land along Tivoly remains undeveloped and ripe for opportunity. The Revival explores strategies to elevate the standard of living and shift the negative attitudes associated with the area by testing innovative formal interventions to address the functional challenges of the previous building types. The Revival experiments with introducing novel form to the streetscape and increasing diversity of residential building types. The tapered walls take away the need for a party-wall and introduces 2 new facades for fenestration to further illuminate the interior. The walls also create a varying spatial experience in width from the floor to the ceiling. The apartments to the rear of the lot are reclaimed shipping containers re-purposed, retrofitted and stacked to function as structure for the apartments. This cost and time effective construction has the potential to be a trend-setter in providing low-cost durable living solutions for under-served communities without compromising the quality of the living environment. Along with iconic form, The Revival offers a central open space to the apartment and row house tenants to function as a community space. This space has clear sight-lines to the street and is visible from the unit surrounding it, making it both secure and communal. The Revival challenges compromised open/communal space of the rowhouse and apartment housing types by studying density and diversity of housing through formal spatial transformations.
VIEW FROM TIVOLY AVENUE. Pedestrian friendly sidewalk and visual porosity with the street.
Y LE AL VO
TI LY E AV FIRST LEVEL FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’
SECOND LEVEL FLOOR PLAN 1/16” = 1’
LATITUDINAL SITE SECTION 1/16” = 1’
LONGITUDINAL SITE SECTION 1/16” = 1’
DIAGRAMS
CENTRAL SPACE SERVES AS A COMMUNITY AMENITY WITH CLEAR VISIBILITY FROM THE UNITS. Street visibility improves security as well all creates a feeling of openness making the space feel larger.
SITE CIRCULATION. Street access to the property. Entrances are adjacent to each other to promote interaction with neighbors.
ROWHOUSE PARKING. Street and designated parking.
APARTMENT
VIEW FROM APARTMENT FRONT DECK ON SECOND LEVEL
VIEW FROM EAST SITE BOUNDARY LOOKING INTO THE COMMUNITY SPACE
PHYSICAL MODEL 1/8” = 1’
