Jan 4, 2015
A website and poster promoting the East Lansing 2015 project.
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A website and poster promoting the East Lansing 2015 project.
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STRATEGIES: parking, daylighting, programmatic
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Diagram: Heliocity
A solar code for a northern city.
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East Lansing Commons
At the district level we researched the foursquare check-ins (https://foursquare.com/infographics/500million) to uncover primarily student activity in relation to cultural and non-profit institutions. This reveals a heat map of activity which will be analyzed further for future programming needs and gap analysis along the Grand River and Michigan Avenue edge.
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Regional Desire Lines
Studying at a regional level, East Lansing remains an important hub culturally and has a place to support the larger Michigan network. Shown above are the existing airport bus lines to Detroit, Flint, and Grand Rapids, as well as the proposed Amtrak rail link from Grand Rapids to Detroit. This parallels the historical Grand River trail diagonally across the width of the state, now being re-inscribed with new modes of transportation and potentially a new line of exchange for ideas. One of these modes could be an Air to Art bus hybrid, linking the airports toward national and international dialogue as well as connecting to old and new significant art and architecture destinations.
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CONCEPT: Rampscape
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SITE
Our proposed locations for interventions are broadly along the border between the University and the City. The areas outlined in green above note the location of a potential large-scale connector, a framework for further investigation as a new civic commons. The sites designated 1 and 2 are new potential bridge sites along zones where the Red Cedar approaches Grand River and Michigan Avenues. Highlighted yellow is the key zone in which the University and City interface, a number of privately owned potential development sites related to this infrastructure. This edge can serve as a dense inhabited wall, a filter related to a variety of lanes, paths, shortcuts, and streets which interact. In total these could achieve a new pedestrian friendly loop, including the Red Cedar River / Lansing River Trail.
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Planned Connections
Today these infrastructures are again being updated and overlaid with new transportation amenities, most notably the expansion of the Lansing River Trail and the proposed Bus Rapid Transit that will continue a historic trend.