The Urban Laboratory Laboratory The Urban Laboratory

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Course Objective: Course Objective: Course Objective: the community and urban design studio seeks to educate architects The to to the community and urban design studio seeks toeducate educate architects the community and urban design studio seeks to architects to be leaders for vision-based change at the scales of neighborhood, be leaders for vision-based change at the scales of neighborhood, city be leaders for vision-based change at the scales of neighborhood, city city and region. and region. and region. this studio builds upon and expands your design skills in architecture, This this studio builds upon and expands your design skills in architecture, this studio builds upon and expands your design skills in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture, and introduces new skills urban design and landscape architecture, and introduces new skills urban design and landscape architecture, and introduces new skills inin in planning. Our approach to urban design community leadership and urban design. our approach to urban design community leadership and urban design. our approach to urban design community leadership and urban design. our approach to urban design engages the city as an integrated design problem which is best solved engages the city as an integrated design problem which is best solved engages the city as an integrated design problem which is best solved through aa participatory design process. Drawing onmultiple multiple disciplines, through participatory design process. Drawing on multiple disciplines, through a participatory design process. Drawing on disciplines, you will study the process of working directly with communities to create you will study the process of working directly with communities to create you will study the process of working directly with communities to create The you visions for future change. the studio is intended to both introduce you visions for future change. the studio isintended intended toboth both introduce visions for future change. the studio is to introduce you to urban design and inform your understanding of building design to urban design and inform your understanding of design inin in to urban design and inform your understanding ofbuilding building design The first half ofthe the semester is focused on on relation to existing contexts. the first half of semester is focused on relation to existing contexts. the first half of the semester is focused relation to existing contexts. the introducing new skills of community leadership and urban design, while introducing new skills of community leadership and urban design, while introducing new skills of community leadership and urban design, while the second half is devoted to expanding and developing design skills at the second half is devoted toto expanding and developing design skills at at the second half is devoted expanding and developing design skills the block and neighborhood scale. the block and neighborhood scale. the block and neighborhood scale.
Urban Design: Urban Design: Urban Design: Urban Design: This studio will explore the discipline of urban design. Urban design this studio will explore the discipline of design. Urban design isis this will explore the discipline ofurban urban design. Urban design is is thisstudio studio will explore the discipline of urban design. Urban design the creation of the physical structure for collective life: making places the creation of the physical structure for collective life: making places the the physical structure for collective life: making places thecreation creationof of the physical structure for collective life: making places for people. It is isa ageneralist generalistdiscipline disciplinefocused focusedon onthe the building of human for people. it building of human for people. it a generalist discipline focused on the building of human for people. itis is a generalist discipline focused on the building of human settlements. We lay out cities, roads, parks and buildings, in order to settlements. We lay out cities, roads, parks and buildings, in order to settlements. lay out cities, roads, parks and buildings, in in order to to settlements.We We lay out cities, roads, parks and buildings, order create places where humanity can go about the complicated business of create places where humanity can go about the complicated business of create places where humanity can go about the complicated business of of create places where humanity can go about the complicated business daily life. As urban designers we are answerable not just to our clients daily life. As urban designers we are answerable not just to our clients daily designers we are answerable not just to to our clients dailylife. life.As Asurban urban designers we are answerable not just our clients but to everyone, generations past, present and future, all of whom must but to everyone, generations past, present and future, all of whom must but to everyone, generations past, present and future, all of whom must but to everyone, generations past, present and future, all of whom must live together in the places on which we work. Ultimately we strive to make live together in the places on which we work. Ultimately we strive to make live the places on which we work. Ultimately wewe strive to make livetogether togetherin in the places on which we work. Ultimately strive to make places for people peoplethat that are beautiful, inspiring and open, for the best places for are beautiful, inspiring and open, for the best places that are beautiful, inspiring and open, for the best placesfor forpeople people that are beautiful, inspiring and open, for the best places are places are never neverfinished. finished. places finished. placesare arenever never finished.
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The Urban Laboratory

Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Fall 2008 48-500 ALL Coordinator: Kelly Hutzell

Studio Syllabus
mapping

Cumulative Exercises
PHASE 1 : WEEKS 1 - 4

Urban Design Process

In community and urban design the process is absolutely fundamental. Urban design is a complex discipline requiring exploration of a variety of issues at different scales. In order to approach the complex problem of creating a neighborhood master plan, we will proceed in steps through a series of exercises, individually and in teams. Each exercise will focus on a new major idea in the urban design process. Through each exercise we will explore a new aspect of the problem, adding new layers of complexity to the evolving visions. The exercises will follow three phases, each ending with a community workshop:

issues and objective

analysis

Systems Analysis

frameworks area of focus precedent study

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PHASE 2 : WEEKS 5 -8

Phase 1: Analysis Working as a studio you will explore economic, social and physical aspects of the neighborhood through maps, demographics, diagrams, photographs, and a large physical model. The analysis provides an opportunity for you to learn about the community. More importantly, effective representation of conditions sets the frame for a future. Analysis is the foundation upon which urban design and development proposals stand.

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Strategic Objectives

Phase 2: Urban Design Framework Working as a studio group, you will transform community issues and objectives into a unified vision for the neighborhood with a series of strategies and an urban design framework. The urban design framework will establish a future vision of the corridors, districts, and neighborhoods of the community. The framework will establish significant places for public investment as well as important civic design features of private development. Phase 3: Urban Design Project In the final phase your team will develop a single area of focus in detail, exploring site forces, development typologies, three-dimensional placemaking and representation. Your vision for change will be embodied through the designs of a development proposal at a critical location in the community. A catalytic project must inspire continued investment and pursuit of the larger urban design goals for community reinvestment.

urban design project

PHASE 3 : WEEKS 9 - 14

Urban Design Framework

Urbanism as Process: Increasingly designers are approaching large-scale proposals for the built environment less as fixed master plans and more from flexible frameworks defining a range of possible scenarios and outcomes. Thus the design solution itself is defined in terms of allowing or constricting a set of processes in time and space. The challenge you face in the Urban Laboratory involves expanding the scale of the problem not only in space (the site is much bigger than in your previous studios), but also in time: the solution itself must allow for multiple possibilities over an extended period of time. In this sense your solutions must be concrete spatial proposals, but they should also be thought of as flexible temporal frameworks for urban change.

WEEK 15

typologies reviews

site forces

Urban Design Project

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Community Vision Building
Urban designers have an ethical obligation to collaborate with and empower members of the communities in which they work. Increasingly the term Community Design is used to describe practices where designers and planners work with neighborhood residents to explore and discover outcomes that are in the common interest. Often times this work is sponsored by a regional community design center or a neighborhood based community development corporation. For our studio the term community design reflects the value we place on social responsibility and community participation in the design process. This semester we will work with, and strive to make many connections with, a community in the Pittsburgh region. Our goal is to provide the community with insight into physical dimensions that will strengthen their positive vision for the future. Our work will help them understand their community as a whole, identify and summarize issues and objectives, imagine large scale changes, and envision specific catalytic projects. The three phases of the semester will each culminate in a community workshop in the neighborhood. Phase 1: Analysis Community Week 1 Sharing Understanding & Setting Goals The first workshop will be devoted to presenting our initial analysis work and identifying issues and objectives. Phase 2: Urban Design Frameworks Community Week 2 Defining Objectives, a Framework & Alternatives [Design Charrette] The second workshop will function as a design charrette. Working with community participants, each studio will present its strategic master plan, discuss and revise alternative design ideas and identify areas of strategic focus to develop in more detail. Phase 3: Urban Design Project Community Week 3 Final Presentation & Community Reception In the final workshop each team will present their design work for feedback. Key to successful participatory design is clear communication and active listening. Representations and explanations must be clear and concise. Listening carefully to what the people and place have to say is essential. Only after listening, analyzing, questioning and contemplating can you begin to devise solutions. Presenting to a public audience is very different than a critique by ones professional peers. Your job is to present visions that are positive and inspiring in order to cultivate the interest and participation of the community.
Citizen Dialogue - Listening Representing Place Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Tools & Methods

Presentation & Communication

The Urban Laboratory

Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Fall 2008 48-500 ALL Coordinator: Kelly Hutzell

Project Flowchart
mapping

PHASE 1 : WEEKS 1 - 4

Analysis, Communication & Leadership

Systems Analysis Economic - Social

Week

Physical Design
Site Visit Conceptual Cartography [Exploration & Mapping] Systems Analysis Physical [Mappings & Model]

01. 02. 03.

issues and objective

analysis

Identifying Issues & Setting Objectives frameworks area of focus precedent study

Community Week 1

04. 05. 06. 07.

Area of Focus [Zooming In] Urban Design Framework [Making Connections]

Precedent Study [Benchmarking]

PHASE 2 : WEEKS 5 -8

Community Week 2
Objectives, Framework [Design Charrette]

08. 09.

Mid-semester Peer Critique

urban design project

Urban Design Project

Site Forces Pin Up

10. 11.
Project Development

PHASE 3 : WEEKS 9 - 14

Typologies Pin Up

site forces

12. 13. 14.

Interim Critique

typologies

Representation

WEEK 15

reviews

Community Week 3
Final Presentation

15.

School-wide Peer Critique & Final Report

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Semester Learning Objectives
Urban design is a complex interdisciplinary process requiring strong leadership and a combination of skills. The community and urban design studio is designed to introduce you to new skills regarding community leadership and urban planning and development while expanding your existing skills as a physical designer. The exercise sequence relates directly to these various skills over the course of the semester. Introducing new community leadership & planning skill sets: Community Leadership Gain experience working with a diverse community to understand issues, listen to ideas, summarize principles and communicate design intent Understand the basic sociological dynamics of urban communities Understand the importance of democratic involvement of a diverse array of community stakeholders in the planning process Understand the basics of creating and running a community planning process Urban Planning & Development Gain analytical skills in understanding systems of policy, economy, transportation and environment at multiple scales Understand the role of urban planning and public policy in the creation and regulation of the built environment Understand the connections between regional land-use issues and neighborhood planning Understand the basic strategies of community economic development Expanding and building upon existing design skill sets: Architecture & Urban Design Expand design skills to address how buildings reinforce surrounding neighborhoods Understand the use of buildings to define public urban space Understand the use of repeated building typologies to create blocks and neighborhoods Understand relationships between architectural expression and place making Understand the strategic use of architecture for community vision building & revitalization Public Space Infrastructure & Landscape Design Expand design skills to address problems involving the creation of outdoor public space Understand the role of landscape architecture in urban design Understand the use of landscape typologies to create diverse public spaces Understand relationships between environmental systems and urban systems Understand the basic design of street typologies and transportation networks

Expanding Existing Skills

Introducing New Skills

The Urban Laboratory

Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Fall 2008 48-500 ALL Coordinator: Kelly Hutzell

Studio Syllabus
mapping

Approaching the City:

We stand for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within coherent metropolitan regions, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of real neighborhoods and diverse districts, the conservation of natural environments, and the preservation of our built legacy. We recognize that physical solutions by themselves will not solve social or economic problems, but neither can economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework. We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practice to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population, communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology and building practice. -The Charter of the New Urbanism Congress for the New Urbanism At the moment, we lack suitable theories of immanence, satisfying visions of how the modern city might be wonderful. The dominant discourse is nostalgic, the urban equivalent of the Family Values debate in American politics, and is similarly flawed by the fallacy that form has a constant relationship to content. If only traditional families or traditional cites could be reconstructed, the argument goes, all would be right. The modernist idea also founders on this fallacy of linkage, this notion of a direct relationship: the idea that simple forms might lead to attractive and progressive clarity of social relations. In both cases, the prevalence of a single model, defensibly clear, inevitably distorts architectures ability to comprehend and respond to changes in an environment it has not wrought. - Michael Sorkin PHASE 1 : WEEKS 1 - 4

Studio Requirements
Studio Schedule: We will diligently maintain the studio schedule shown on the last page of your syllabus. The schedule indicates when exercises will be issued and due, when lectures will occur and when site visits, pin ups and desk critiques are scheduled. If changes are required, a new schedule will be issued. Community Meetings: Three community meetings will occur outside of studio time off campus, and we request that you inform us in advance of any conflicting classes so that we can ensure that you are excused. The community meeting schedule as noted is tentative and will be confirmed as the semester progresses. Lectures: The entire Urban Lab group will meet on most Mondays for in-class lectures and discussions on the days noted on the schedule. These lectures will be held in MM A14, requiring you to arrive promptly by 1:30pm. Text Book: A reference text will be required for the studio: Cities: 10 Lines - A New Lens for the Urbanistic Project, edited by Joan Busquets (the invited David Lewis Lecturer on September 15th). We will draw on this text for readings, precedent sources and lectures. Readings and Discussions: Reading assignments will be assigned in the Urban Design Theory and Practice course, and will be discussed in both this course and studio. Readings may also be handed out by your individual studio professor. These readings will inform both your understanding of urban design in general and your approach to the project. Sketchbook: Each student will be required to maintain a sketchbook for this studio (to be used in both the Urban Lab and Urban Design Theory and Practice course). At a minimum, you are expected to record notes and sketches from site visits, community meetings, lectures and all pin-ups and reviews. Please label all of your entries in your sketchbook. Studio Exercises: Over the course of the studio we will have 7 specific exercises, some of which have multiple parts. These exercises will allow us to approach the complex urban design project step by step, adding layers of complexity to our solutions. Many exercises will require a studio pin-up, all of which are listed on the schedule. Typically these will be informal critiques, but you will be expected to have legible work to show and discuss. You will be evaluated on both the process and product of each exercise.

issues and objective urban design project

WEEK 15 PHASE 2 : WEEKS 5 -8

typologies reviews

PHASE 3 : WEEKS 9 - 14

site forces

frameworks area of focus precedent study

analysis

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Studio Requirements
Team Structure: During the second phase of the semester, you will work with your entire studio group to create a unified urban design framework or master plan. During the third phase of the semester you will work in self-selected twoperson teams. Each team will propose their own design project. Your final grade will be based upon a combination of your studio group work, your two-person team work, your individual process, and your participation in the studio and community workshops. Attendance: Attendance during studio from 1:30pm sharp to 4:20pm is mandatory for all students unless you have cleared your absence with both your coordinator and studio professor. You are expected to be working in the studio or attending pin-ups and reviews for the duration of the class time. Greater than three studio absences may result in a lowered grade. In addition to attending studio, in-class lectures, and community meetings, you are also required to attend the David Lewis Lecture on Sept. 15th.

Processing:
While community participation has become firmly institutionalized, it has also become more of a tool for defending exclusionary, conservative principals than for promoting social justice and ecological vision. The problem lies not in the concept of participation but in the roles that designers and planners have taken in relationship to their clients and projects. I propose a fundamentally different approach than traditionally taught and practiced in environmental design, one in which design professionals take a stronger visionary, problem-solving role. Proactive professionals can be distinguished from their traditional counterparts by their visionary approach and their commitment to a participatory process through which the community can modify or enlarge the vision. - Mark Francis There is no single way to act and react. The reply is literally different in each case. This is essentially what architects fail to realize when they ignore the determining factors of each site or treat them all in the same way. Related to this tendency is the fact that because architects have highly predetermined objects in mind, they become blind to the delicacies and peculiarities of each different context. Rem Koolhaas

Evaluation
35% Process: The design process is absolutely key in community and urban design. The sequential exercises in our process will form the basis of your design solution and are essential to the studio. When evaluating process we will consider your: willingness to explore options, depth of design development, thoughtful consideration of community input, willingness to work corroboratively as a team member, etc... 45% Product: The solution to the design problem will be just less than half of your final grade. The complexity, depth, execution and final representation will all factor into the grade. We will also consider the clarity of written, graphic and verbal communication of your ideas as part of your final product. Final studio documentation is mandatory. 10% Participation/Leadership: Participation involves being in studio and playing an active role in both your studio as a whole and your team. Leadership involves making an effort to actively engage the community we are working with, listening to their needs and striving to give clear articulate ideas back to them. 5% Sketchbook: Due to the communicative nature of the studio, we expect you to record notes, sketches and reflections. Sketchbooks will be turned in and evaluated at both midterm and final review week. 5% Coordinator/Advisory Grades: This portion of your grade takes into consideration advisory grades of the other faculty in the studio year as well as final critique grades given by guest jurors. The coordinator grade is meant to ensure fairness and balance across the studios in any given year. Coordinator grades equally weigh both process and product.

The Urban Laboratory

Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Fall 2008 48-500 ALL Coordinator: Kelly Hutzell

Studio Syllabus
mapping

Resources & Links

PHASE 1 : WEEKS 1 - 4

Required Textbook
Joan Busquets & Felipe Correa Cities Ten Lines: A New Lens for the Urbanistic Project . Barcelona: Actar D/ Nicolodi Editore, 2006

issues and objective

analysis

Pittsburgh Links

frameworks area of focus precedent study

Note: On Amazon the book listing is: Cities: X Lines: Approaches to City and Open Territory Design. This is the correct book to order.

urban design project

PHASE 2 : WEEKS 5 -8

www.ura.org www.uli.org www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/cp www.hacp.org www.downtownpittsburgh.com www.riverlifetaskforce.org www.findtherivers.org www.phlf.org www.pghdesigncoalition.org www.cdcp.org www.sustainablepittsburgh www.gbapgh.org www.maphub.org

Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh Urban Land Institute Pittsburgh City Planning The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership Riverlife Task Force Find the Rivers Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Pittsburgh Civic Design Coalition Community Design Center of Pittsburgh Sustainable Pittsburgh Green Building Alliance Maphub

WEEK 15

typologies reviews

PHASE 3 : WEEKS 9 - 14

site forces

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Contacts
Urban Laboratory Faculty Studio Coordinator : Kelly Hutzell email: kellyh@andrew.cmu.edu office: MMCH 306 office phone: 412-268-6256 cell phone: 617-470-2935 Studio A Professors: Ken Doyno email: kend@rdcollab.com office phone: 412-224-6500 Studio B Professor: Studio C Professor: Studio D Professor: Dan Rothschild email: danr@rdcollab.com office phone: 412-224-6500 Rami el Samahy email: samahy@cmu.edu office phone: 412-268-6256 cell phone: 617-230-9739 John Folan email: jfolan@andrew.cmu.edu office phone: 412-268-6260 cell phone: 520-834-2779 Jonathan Kline email: jonathak@andrew.cmu.edu cell phone: 412-443-4211

Processing:
The city, which is the subject of this book, is to be understood here as architecture. By architecture I mean not only the visible image of the city and the sum of its different architectures, but architecture as construction, the construction of the city over time. Architecture, attesting to the tastes and attitudes of generations, to public events and private tragedies, to new and old facts, is the fixed stage for human events. The collective and the private, society and the individual, balance and confront one another in the city. The city is composed of many people seeking a general order that is consistent with their own particular environment. - The Architecture of the City Aldo Rossi (Social) space is a (social) product. Each society and its related means of production create a specific kind of physical space. Thus mental and social activity impose their own meshwork upon natures space, upon the Heraclitean flux of spontaneous phenomena, upon that chaos which precedes the advent of the body; they set up an order which, coincides, but only up to a point, with the order of words. Traversed now by pathways and patterned by networks, natural space changes: one might say that practical activity writes upon nature, albeit in a scrawling hand, and this writing implies a particular representation of space. Places are marked, noted, named. Between them, within the holes in the net, are blank marginal spaces. -Henri Lefebvre

Remaking Cities Institute Director: Research Associate: Luis Rico-Gutierrez email: lrico@andrew.cmu.edu Elise Gatti email: egatti@andrew.cmu.edu

The Urban Laboratory

Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture Fall 2008 48-500 ALL Coordinator: Kelly Hutzell

Studio Schedule
Week
mapping

Monday
UL Studio Introduction Studio Selection All School Meeting
Aug 25

Wednesday
Syllabus & Exercise #1 Issued: Conceptual Cartography All School Barbeque
Aug 27

Friday
Site Visit
Aug 29

01.
PHASE 1 : WEEKS 1 - 4

analysis

02. 03. 04.

LABOR DAY - NO CLASSES

Exercise #1 Pin Up: Conceptual Cartography Exercise #2 Issued: Systems Analysis

Sep 01 Sep 03

Studio Desk Crits

Sep 05

issues and objective

Lecture: Kline Studio Desk Crits

Sep 08

Studio Desk Crits

Studio Desk Crits

Sep 10

Sep 12

Community Meeting Pin Up Exercise #3 Issued: Identifying Issues & Setting Objectives David Lewis Lecture: Joan Busquets
Sep 15

Community Meeting #1
Exercise #2 Presentation & Discussion
Sep 17

Exercise #3 Discussion: Identifying Issues & Setting Objectives Exercise #4 Issued: Precedent Study
Sep 19

frameworks area of focus precedent study

05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10.

Studio Desk Crits

Sep 22

UL Group Pin Up/Discussion Exercise #4 Pin Up: Precedent Study Exercise #5 Issued: Urban Design Framework Sep 24 Studio Desk Crits

On-Site Community Service Day

Sep 26

Lecture: Doyno/Rothschild Studio Desk Crits

Sep 29

Studio Desk Crits

PHASE 2 : WEEKS 5 -8

Oct 01

Oct 03

Exercise #5 Pin Up: Urban Design Framework Exercise #6 Issued: Area of Focus
Oct 06

Studio Desk Crits

Studio Desk Crits

Oct 08

Oct 10

Mid semester Peer Critiques Exercise #5 & #6 Review

Oct 13

Community Meeting #2

Exercise #5 & #6 Presentation & Workshop

Oct 15

MID SEMESTER BREAK - NO CLASSES

Oct 17

urban design project

Lecture: Folan Exercise #7 Issued: Urban Design Project

Oct 20

Studio Desk Crits

Studio Desk Crits

Oct 22

Oct 24

Studio Desk Crits

Exercise #7 Pin-Up #1: Site Forces

Studio Desk Crits

Oct 27

Oct 29

Oct 31

PHASE 3 : WEEKS 9 - 14

11. 12. 13. 14.

Lecture: el Samahy Studio Desk Crits

Nov 03

Exercise #7 Pin-Up #2: Typologies

Studio Desk Crits

Nov 05

Nov 07

site forces

Studio Desk Crits

Studio Desk Crits

Studio Desk Crits

Nov 10

Nov 12

Nov 14

Lecture: Hutzell Studio Desk Crits

Nov 17

Exercise #7 Interim Pin-Up: Urban Design Project

Nov 19

Studio Desk Crits

typologies

Nov 21

Studio Desk Crits

THANKSGIVING - NO CLASSES

THANKSGIVING - NO CLASSES

Nov 24

Nov 26

Nov 28

WEEK 15

reviews

15.

School Wide Peer Critiques Exercise #7 Review

Community Meeting #3
Dec 01

Exercise #7: Final Presentation

Dec 03

School Wide Peer Critiques Exercise #7 Review Celebration Saturday Studio Documentation due

Dec 05 Dec 06 Dec 11