School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
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Item STADIUM SURVIVAL: ADAPTING STADIUM SITES TO URBAN CENTERS(2022) Macek, Andrew; Binder, Michael; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This thesis explores the survival of existing stadiums through the revival of the traditional stadium site into new urban centers. The importance of this project is clear through its historic isolation of traditional stadium sites, resulting in urban fabric deserts. Stadium site revival is implemented through the utilization of undeveloped hardscape to increase urban density and the application of new community connections. This creates a new recreational urban center that uses stadium adjacent context during a wide time range rather than as vehicular circulation and storage for stadiums.Item FAREWELL, RFK. HELLO AFFORDABILITY AND PLACE.(2020) Ramirez, Christopher Rudy; Bell, Matthew; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The RFK Stadium is a 50-year-old building that is planned to be demolished by 2021. The building is deteriorating more over time. The cost of maintenance and utilities is 3.5 million dollars per year without creating revenue. But, once the stadium is gone, the entire RFK Campus (190 acres) becomes available. Currently, 167 acres are covered to asphalt. But, despite current plans that propose sport facilities, this thesis explores the dedication of the RFK campus for housing. First, it examines past and present planning efforts in order to draw principles of design. Second, it provides an analysis of the site with its benefits and constraints. Third, it studies successful cases as precedents. Finally, it proposes a master plan for the RFK Campus covering housing, institutional buildings, monuments, and parks.Item Grid and the Gridiron: Re-imagining Mega-Structures in the Neighborhood(2017) Cunningham, Peter; Kelly, Brian P; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)In dense urban environments, space is valuable. Unused space is not a luxury taxpayers or developers can afford. Mega-structures like football stadiums are important civic and sacred spaces and are valued in American culture as such. However, they receive infrequent use, sitting idle most days of the year. This thesis will examine how architecture and urban design can make these sacred, civic spaces active and restore public value from Monday to Saturday. The means of activating spaces stem from allowing the field to function as a park, making retail space in and around the stadium functional on game days and non-game days, providing maximum structural flexibility for non-football functions, and adapting parking lots into public plazas by encouraging in them a variety of uses.Item Integrating Infrastructure South of the Capitol(2017) Camargo de Albuquerque Sanchez, Pedro Henrique; Kelly, Brian; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This thesis looks at the role that infrastructure plays as it relates to the city. It is about taking an area of uninhabitable and divisive infrastructure and elevating it to something civic. It focuses in an area just south and west of the U.S. Capitol Building. It aims to embrace railroad and highway infrastructure as elements that serve multiple city needs, as part of the everyday, while adding artistic and monumental attributes to Washington D.C. It accepts the premises that the presence of, and the need for, the infrastructure will remain. This thesis proposes a master plan, involving the redevelopment of portions of Interstate 395, 695, and 295 highways and the railroads, to provide better use of valuable land, re connection of neighborhoods, and to create place, experienced through a series of civic spaces. Ultimately this thesis aims to set a new ideal that embraces infrastructure and elevates it to civic quality.Item A Plan for Salisbury, MD: Urban Design Transformations in Response to Sea Level Rise(2015) Moreno-Holt, Daniel Jack; Kelly, Brian; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This thesis proposes a master plan for Salisbury, MD that presents solutions to the challenges faced by small towns along tidal waterways. Salisbury’s challenges include flooding and sea level rise, poorly defined arteries framing downtown and disconnecting neighborhoods, and a lack of vibrant, mixed use development. These issues are common to small towns and present opportunities for transformative design.Item Public / Private Development in San Jose, Costa Rica(2010) Brodeur, Brian; Bennett, Ralph; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This thesis will attempt to redevelop the area surround The Pacific Rail Station, Estacion Ferrocarril al Pacifico, in San José, Costa Rica in order to better use the land and create a real place within the historic fabric of the city. Embedded with in this goal is the need to create a unique destination with the centerpiece of development being a national assembly building for Costa Rica. This will be achieved by exploring the nature of public / private development and how it may be used to create change and development in the developing world. This idea of partnership between the public and private sectors has been used extensively here in the United States, but still has not gained as much ground in the developing world. By examining the realities of design and development a model for this type of development can be established. This directly challenges the current development models in San José. This new model of development should work to capture the value added by government investment and work to attract private capitol. Together this will work to revitalize a portion of the city that is currently under developed.