Brief
[UofC, SAPL, Winter 2020]
This advanced studio, exploring contemporary themes in planning and professio[UofC, SAPL, Winter 2020]
This advanced studio, exploring contemporary themes in planning and professional planning practice, centres on a real-world problem or client project. It involves analysis, synthesis, participation and the formulation of a planning or urban design solution. It culminates in a professional report and presentation.
For this studio, we will be working in Calgary with the Crossroads community in NE. The community has a lot of amenities and excellent proximity to major facilities, including the Bow River, Downtown, the Calgary Zoo, Telus Spark and LRT access. It however also faces several challenges mainly in connection with large scale transport infrastructure and industrial land use through which the community is relatively isolated.
For the emergence of a transformational planning practice in Calgary that starts to add a second and third layer of development in the built-up areas, this part of town is prime territory. The industrial uses are already beginning to transition into mixed-use with hybrid forms of storage, production and retail as well as commercial and cultural merges. Together with opportunities for new concepts of connectivity focused on slow/public transport, a new kind of Calgary specific urban environment has the potential to emerge here. Cities around the world have over the past two decades capitalized on development potential in transforming their semi-industrial areas. Calgary too can tap into this potential, in the case of Crossroads with the perfect view of the Rocky Mountains.
Between these large industrial/commercial areas sits a residential community with a great spirit. The LRT station has potential for TOD, transforming mixed uses are introducing a new hybrid form of development. Together with the old CP rail spur lines that lead of the mainline into Crossroads (think High Line in New York), this is a great setting to develop some exciting new urban models for the future of CalgaryÌs inner-city growth.
As the capstone course, this is a student-led studio allowing ample room for exploration and experimenting. The focus is on urban form and collaboration. We will work closely with the community in workshops to co-create facilitated by the student teams. Guiding the design work is the Matrix, the Guidebook for Great Communities and reference projects.
The City of Calgary is shifting itÌs process from community-centered ARPs to Local Plan Areas, each comprised of a group of communities. Crossroads is in fact both a community and at the same time, one of these new areas - Area 24. The work undertaken is essentially a trial run of the new ARPs applying the new Guidebook in practice. Work produced in this studio is of interest both to the community and the city to finetune tool and process. nal planning practice, centres on a real-world problem or client project. It involves analysis, synthesis, participation and the formulation of a planning or urban design solution. It culminates in a professional report and presentation.
For this studio, we will be working in Calgary with the Crossroads community in NE. The community has a lot of amenities and excellent proximity to major facilities, including the Bow River, Downtown, the Calgary Zoo, Telus Spark and LRT access. It however also faces several challenges mainly in connection with large scale transport infrastructure and industrial land use through which the community is relatively isolated.
For the emergence of a transformational planning practice in Calgary that starts to add a second and third layer of development in the built-up areas, this part of town is prime territory. The industrial uses are already beginning to transition into mixed-use with hybrid forms of storage, production and retail as well as commercial and cultural merges. Together with opportunities for new concepts of connectivity focused on slow/public transport, a new kind of Calgary specific urban environment has the potential to emerge here. Cities around the world have over the past two decades capitalized on development potential in transforming their semi-industrial areas. Calgary too can tap into this potential, in the case of Crossroads with the perfect view of the Rocky Mountains.
Between these large industrial/commercial areas sits a residential community with a great spirit. The LRT station has potential for TOD, transforming mixed uses are introducing a new hybrid form of development. Together with the old CP rail spur lines that lead of the mainline into Crossroads (think High Line in New York), this is a great setting to develop some exciting new urban models for the future of CalgaryÌs inner-city growth.
As the capstone course, this is a student-led studio allowing ample room for exploration and experimenting. The focus is on urban form and collaboration. We will work closely with the community in workshops to co-create facilitated by the student teams. Guiding the design work is the Matrix, the Guidebook for Great Communities and reference projects.
The City of Calgary is shifting itÌs process from community-centered ARPs to Local Plan Areas, each comprised of a group of communities. Crossroads is in fact both a community and at the same time, one of these new areas - Area 24. The work undertaken is essentially a trial run of the new ARPs applying the new Guidebook in practice. Work produced in this studio is of interest both to the community and the city to finetune tool and process.