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Gallaudet University / Florida Avenue TOD              ARPL 701 Real Estate Concentration Studio II

 

                                                                                                                                     John Nahra, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP + Bill Bonstra, FAIA, LEED AP

" As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future, which is essentially unknown."

                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                             Norman Foster

6th Street (Coming from Florida Ave)

Program

 

 The Complex consist of a hotel, a botanic garden/farm, a shopping center, a plaza, and two high rise residential buildings which serve as a signifier of Union Market. The Botanic Garden/Farm is connected with the market, serving as a show room for any new seasonal products: locally grown fruits and vegetables. The Plaza becomes an ice rink, an attraction which draws people during winter and keeps the place active throughout the whole year.

 

 

 

 

 

Background

 

   This studio project will give students the opportunity to develop and design a large mixeduse building in the Union Market & Gallaudet University neighborhood of Washington, DC.  Bordered by New York Avenue, Florida Avenue and the University Campus, this Transit Oriented Development (TOD) has the potential to become a unique anchor and gateway for Washington, DC. 

 

6th Street (looking towards Florida Ave)

6th Street (Coming from Florida Ave)

Central Plaza

Wind Studies

CFD Studies

Low speed, efficient wind turbine

 Sustainability

 

Use of renewable energy. The composition of the buildings and their shapes maximizes capture  wind harvesting coming north, creating a wind tunnel which increases the wind speed and generates electricity through integrated wind turbines all year long.

 

Mitigating Solar impact. The two residential towers are shaped in a way that every upper floor shades the floor below. The facades have double skin which serves as a shading screen. It also have a smooth surface, stimulating wind induction, contributing to better wind turbine efficiency.

Self-shading Strategy

Longitudinal section

Transverse section

Typical Level Plan (Towers)

Ground Level

Second Level

Typical Level Plan

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