madison homeless shelter community meeting presentation (november 21, 2013)
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Elevating the Quality of Life in the District
Elevating the Quality of Life in the District
Madison Shelter Landscape and Exterior Restoration 35%
Madison School, 1900
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landscape
Design objectives: Create a pleasant exterior space for shelter
users • Secure feeling
• Some connection to street for security
• Accessible to mobility-impaired
• Durable and low maintenance
Maintain existing levels of site security (fencing) with more residential-appropriate fencing
Be a good neighbor: good design makes good neighbors
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landscape
Sustainability objectives
Keep run-off on site (LID)
Use native plants:
for hardiness and lower maintenance once established. Native
plants function much like a natural system, with diverse plants
providing food and shelter for a host of birds, butterflies and
beneficial insects. Landscaping with native plants is
recommended for Chesapeake Bay health
Minimize light pollution
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Historic Preservation Objectives Landscape: • Use forms and materials consistent with the building and its time;
appropriate for the Capitol Hill Historic District
Building: Improve historic integrity of the building:
• Remove paint from pressed brick if possible
• Repoint entire building, repairing cracks etc. at the same time
• Repaint common brick to “brick color”
• Paint trim cream or buff color per its original color.
• Restore windows
• Provide sensitive security:
• “L’Enfant plan” basement security
• Screen security at first and second floors
• Remove building-mounted security lighting
• Improve entrances: make more appropriate to historic building
• Improve canopy/ies
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Other program needs (health/safety/welfare)
• Replace retaining wall
• Improve structural stability of stair areaways
• Upgrade guard and hand railings at stair area ways.
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landscape image
Urban forest in Washington, DC
Context:
Late 19th c. school building
in Capitol Hill Historic District
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Washington, DC • The L’Enfant plan: a grid with
superimposed Baroque diagonals
• The grid/diagonal pattern pulled apart,
the natural showing through the “made”
• The grid/diagonal pattern interrupted to
its south at a major element: the Rivers
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Use of green screen fencing provides a degree of transparency from the street while also providing security, incorporating additional vegetation, and being more residential.
Landscape: Design responses
Secure feeling Some connection to street for security
Maintain existing levels of site security
(fencing) with more residential-
appropriate fencing
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Landscape: Design responses
Accessible to mobility-impaired
Accessible entrance to yard area at west end. 1:20 sloping sidewalk avoids railings etc. required for a 1:12 ramp. All surfaces in yard will have maximum cross slope of 1:50.
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Landscape: Sustainability response Minimize impervious areas/ maximize site permeability LID: infiltrate, evapotranspire and reuse stormwater Decentralized small areas to treat runoff close to where created Goal: retain first ½” of rain fall on site
Extensive use of 30” spaced pavers for “patio” spaces
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Impervious Areas
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Pervious Paving
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Landscape: Sustainability
response Keep as much run-off on site as
possible Minimize impervious areas/ maximize
site permeability
Maximize use of trees for storm water
management
(both on site and street trees)
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Landscape:
Sustainability
response Keep as much run-off
on site as possible
Minimize impervious
areas/ maximize site
permeability
Maximize use of trees
(both site and street)
for storm water
management
Red circles indicate new proposed trees
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landscape image: Urban forest
Two large shade trees (one Maple and one American Elm)
with densely planted understory trees (Redbuds)
these Kousas are 8’ apart
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Trees
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Landscape: Sustainability response
Keep as much run-off on site as possible
Divert as much roof water from combined sewer as
possible, using water feature
Proposed landscape drawing
“Decorative trench drains” from two of the roof downspouts
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Planted Areas
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Landscape: Sustainability response
Use native plants “New American Landscape”
Plant list Eastern Redbud Single Trunk
Willow Oak American Elm
Butterfly Milkweed
Tangerine Beauty Cross Vine
Blue Mist Fothergilla
Oakleaf Hydrangea Creeping St. Johns Wort
St. Johns Wort
Virginia Sweetspire
Muhly
Summersweet Grow-Low Fragrant Sumac
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Landscape: Sustainability responses:
Minimize light pollution
• Use a number of smallish
(about 8’ tall) pole lights on site
• Use fixtures that direct light down instead of up or flooding providing a more pleasant quality of light than the typical security light
• Multiple fixtures provide
fixture backup If one goes out you don’t lose all the light security
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Lighting
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Landscape Historic Preservation Responses:
Materials:
• Concrete for walking surfaces is one of the
traditional paving materials used on Capitol
Hill.
• Sidewalk strategies to enhance permeability
as already developed and implemented on
Capitol Hill
• Bluestone is a traditional public space
material
Use forms and materials consistent with the building and its time; appropriate for the Capitol Hill Historic District or if an element is not
original to the building, it should be of its time
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Other program needs
(health/safety/welfare)
• Replace retaining wall
• Improve structural stability of
stair areaways
• Upgrade guard and hand
railings at stair area ways.
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Building: Historic Preservation objectives
Improve historic integrity of the building: • Remove paint from pressed brick if possible
• Repaint common brick to “brick color”
• Paint trim cream or buff color per its original color.
• Restore windows
• Provide security sensitively
• Remove building-mounted security lighting
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Building: Historic
Preservation objectives
Improve entrances: make
more appropriate to historic
building
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Building: Historic Preservation objectives
Improve historic integrity
of building:
• Improve canopy/ies
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Building: Historic
Preservation objectives
Possibly restore roof cresting: (budget
dependent)
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Building: Provide security sensitively
• Add security screens to first and second floor windows that look like
insect screens (on Madison only the bottom half of window) • Add window grilles at basement level only to regularize the facade
McKinley HS
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Building: Existing West Facade
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Building: Existing North Facade
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Building: Proposed West Facade
Trees are shown at 5-10 years after planting
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Building: Proposed North Facade
Trees are shown at 5-10 years after planting
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Next Steps • Historic Preservation Office reviews throughout design
process
• Submission of Agency and Community Comments to architrave
• 65 % Design Development Community Review Meeting – January 2014
• 100% Construction Documents Community Review Meeting – March 2014
• DCRA and Other Regulatory Agency Permitting Process for Construction Documents
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Design Team
• architrave p.c. architects -Architect
• AMT – Landscape Design and Civil Engineers
• Robert Silman & Associates – Structural Engineers
• JVP Engineers – Electrical Engineering
• Froehling and Robertson – Geotechnical and Hazardous Materials