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Woodbury University Study Abroad '06 / Collaborator: Jorge Mata / Advisor: Ingalill Walhroos-Ritter, Norman Millar
Aubervillier Docks
Paris / France
During the Woodbury University Summer Abroad Program of 2006, four weeks were spent exploring Aubervillier, a province on the north western border of Paris, France. The area is an import/export center for overstock items being shipped in through an adjacent canal. Our strategy was to accommodate residential, green and public space to create a new local identity. A community where people could live and work rather than commute.
The first step was to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the site to determine how the existing building space could be properly utilized using the existing FARs (Floor Area Ratios). After the FARs for each individual parcel of property were calculated and analyzed, they were separated into various typologies. The typologies were then reorganized to properly distribute their use throughout the site and accommodate new ones, such as schools, shops and residential living. The canal was extended into the site to promote commerce, while creating a bridge in which social and industrial space would be separated and redistributed.
The Canal is extended through the site and the remaining program is reordered according to program parameters that are layered on top of one another. Each typology is given the proper amount of space according to existing FARs, growth predictions, residential and commercial mandates.
Abroad_Paris
Woodbury University Study Abroad '06 / Collaborator: Jorge Mata / Advisor: Ingalill Walhroos-Ritter, Norman Millar
