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UnshutShore Project for West Palm Beach | #1 Strategy to Trigger TheTranspiration| ecosistema urbano ecosistema urbano tv blog portfolio contact well-nigh us ecosistema urbano sitemappublishNo Access September 25, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comment: (1)UnshutShore Project for West Palm Beach | #1 Strategy to Trigger TheTranspirationCATEGORY: ⚐ EN + competitions + ecosistema urbano + sustainability + urban social diamond + urbanism + work in progress As we spoken a few months ago in our previous post,  our projectUnshutShore is the winning proposal of Shore toCadreinternational competition.UnshutShore is a ramified project that addresses many variegated topics in an effort of providing solutions to several challenges that the municipality of West Palm Beach shares with many other cities. For this reason, we decided to present increasingly in detail our project in a series of 3 posts defended to the three main points of the proposal: #1, Strategy to trigger the Change; #2, Waterfront: celebrating unexpected public space; #3, Banyan Hub: a municipality into a building. Before going into detail of our proposal, it would be useful to introduce the context of the municipality of West Palm Beach. As reported in the Shore toCadreCompetition Website, West Palm Beach is a young municipality that is growing quickly. Many socialize this region with a large retirement community, but there is moreover a growing population of people in their 20s and 30s, as well as large Black and Hispanic populations. The city’s downtown and 10-mile waterfront present an opportunity to develop new suavities that reflect the city’s emerging populations, and diamond is a crucial tool for tackling these evolving needs. The diamond competition asks: How can we reimagine our downtowns to make them increasingly engaging and vibrant? How can cities collect information that informs future version and growth?  How can we facilitate social interaction among diverse groups? How can the built environment modernize residents’ physical health,  mental health, and social capital?  Today we present the first post of the series, starting the narration of this heady experience. This first installment introduces the previous wringer and the unstipulated strategies that informed the diamond of the project areas. Vision: Looking into the Future Our vision for West Palm Beach envisages.. A municipality wieldy and unshut to citizens and tourists alike. A municipality popping with diverse people and activities all year long. A municipality unshut to the lagoon, with a downtown full of unique lulu places and innovative urban experiences. A healthy and well-appointed municipality suitable for everyone, with spaces for children and elders, spaces to play, work, rest, eat, meditate or meet with other people. A municipality people want to live in and visit.   Opportunities, Strategies, Outcomes The very first step in the elaboration of theUnshutShore project has been the wringer of local context in order to pinpoint the existing opportunities in West Palm Beach. We analyzed 6 key aspects to tightly understand the challenges of the project from variegated perspectives: society, climate, health, mobility, sites and activity. Here follows a video summarizing the key findings that emerged from this preliminary urban wringer that have been crucial in the definition of the diamond strategies and outcomes.   How to Trigger The Change? Our tideway to the project implies understanding West Palm Beach as a whole from the urban, cultural, social, economic and environmental perspectives. We analyzed misogynist information as well as carried out our own surveys and interviews to identify relevant issues and areas of opportunity regarding new urban experiences. The waterfront zone is where the municipality shows its unconfined potential, but moreover its needs for improvement: for largest connection with the rest of the city; for wastefulness versus seasonal fluctuations; for social inclusiveness and diversity; for an expansion in urban density to unzip sustainable levels of activity; for resiliency versus climatic, social or economic impacts; for resurgence serviceability and public spaces of comfort; for innovation in combining and addressing all of these aspects in the weightier possible way. These challenges require a holistic approach. We can trigger powerful transformations in the municipality by rethinking three key areas of West Palm Beach: the waterfront, the alleyways and the Banyan building. In parallel, a transversal strategy touches focal points permitting to reactivate the city. Mobility and Accessibility + Connecting the Downtown with the Suburbs The proposed diamond should be inclusive and inviting, enabling anyone to be part of the new downtown urban life and events. Downtown itself would be positively unauthentic by, for example, younger visitors or residents, balancing the current population pyramid. + Upgrading Public Transit and Sustainable Mobility Mobility is key to transforming downtown WPB into a increasingly urban, efficient and friendly environment. First of all, it is necessary to modernize public transport to indulge people from the suburbs to reach downtown without the need of a car. + Optimizing the Management of Existing Parking Lots Downtown WPB can count on numerous public and private parking lots and parking buildings all relatively tropical to one other and to the waterfront. There seems to be a lack of a comprehensive management system to indulge citizens to find the closest self-ruling spot to their final destination. This would moreover self-ruling up space for increasingly lulu and profitable uses like sports, events, etc. in places currently used only as part time parking lots. + Increasing Walkability for aIncreasinglyLivelyPart-wayImproving the walkability of a place makes it largest in terms of accessibility, inclusiveness, attractiveness, safety and comfort. A walkable downtown will be an improved downtown, attracting people to live, work and enjoy. Resiliency and ClimateTranspiration+ Introducing an Ecological Perspective in Existing Parking Lots The wide-stretching zone covered with tile or touchable is one of the main ecological problems in a low density yet highly infrastructured city. Using landscaping techniques it is possible to progressively increase the permeable zone while at the same time treating the runoff water. Parking lots moreover offer a unconfined opportunity for including increasingly vegetation and improving the climate and repletion in the urban fabric virtually them. + Increasing Street Permeability and Improving Stormwater Management WPB streets are part of the city’s mobility system, but moreover play a fundamental role in the water management system: They serve to collect rainwater and uncontrived it to the lagoon. Improvements in the permeability of the streets have a unconfined impact in the water cycle. + Enhancing Lagoon MetabolismStuffa coastal city, West Palm Beach has an impact on the quality of the water of the Lake Worth Lagoon. It is necessary to stave pollutants reach the lagoon in order to maintain and modernize its natural biological state. Improving the water cycle, monitoring the pollutant loading, and encouraging on-site water treatment policies, are key factors to bringing people and activities to the water. + Adapting to Sea Level Rise with a Global Resilience Strategy The proposal for the waterfront addresses the probable rise of the water level in the Lake Worth Lagoon over the next 100 years.  Also wider and increasingly constructive strategy is necessary: increasingly conscious urban planning is recommended in order to stave new construction in low lands and encourage operations in safer areas. Urban View + Introducing Functional Mix and Managing a Wider UrbanMinutiaeThe wide-stretching low density residential areas require an intense municipality center. The variety of uses will increase the “urbanity” and the level of economical resilience of the city, attracting new investments and boosting the local economy. + Boosting Year RoundWorriednessand Reducing Seasonal Fluctuations Two main factors influence the seasonal fluctuations of WPB economy and urban life: tourism and the climate itself. Wide fluctuations have a big economic and social impact. The first one can be approached by creating a increasingly zippy municipality center. This will vamp increasingly permanent citizens and users whose presence in the municipality will not depend on touristic seasons. And the second can be addressed by reducing the impact of wrongheaded climatic conditions. + Generating a Long Term Vision to Foster Urban Catalyzers It is necessary to promote and encourage the minutiae of dense, mixed use buildings similar to the Banyan Hub, capable of generating innovation by ways of interaction between diverse users and activities in fruitful proximity. + Adopting an Ecological and PedagogicalTidewayThe transformation of WPB can wilt a national and international example. A pilot wits for attracting visitors and future citizens to a city, and a specimen study on how to create unique urban waterscapes combining nature and technology.   Resiliency,Versionand Re naturalization for West Palm Beach The waterfront is designed taking into worth the interpretation of the sea level rising by 3 feet over the next century. By working with topography it is possible to build a waterfront that remains usable regardless of the sea level, plane in the specimen of very upper tides. Furthermore, the variations make the space evolve over time and wilt increasingly interesting: enlarging and shrinking depending on the time, the day and the year; hiding or showing parts of the topography; creating surprising interactions, etc. In terms of resiliency, flipside important factor is the preparation of all the urban elements for lattermost weather events like storms and hurricanes. All of the structures are designed to resist strong winds by ways of their shape and flexible behavior. They are moreover conceived to be removable in specimen of need and to indulge a rapid and affordable reparation in the event of damage. While stuff a man-made extension of the city, an strained ecosystem, the whole waterfront works together with the natural processes in a myriad of variegated ways. It takes into worth the water cycle, finding ways of absorbing, filtering, reusing and bringing rain water when to the lagoon and to the sea. It lets the water spritz into urban space, and urban space spritz into the water. As part of a process of ‘renaturalization’, the waterfront explores many possible relations between construction and vegetation, letting it grow on top of structures, under strained covers, in vertical surfaces or in hybrid, permeable pavements. It blurs the limits between an urban space and a natural one, creating many opportunities to wits one, the other, or both at the same time.   A Constant Digital-Physical Interaction The new waterfront of WPB will wilt one of the first truly augmented public spaces in the world. People will be worldly-wise to interact with the physical space in innovative ways, either from their own mobile devices or through simple interfaces included among the urban elements, using off-the-shelf technologies like sensors, controllers, standard connection protocols, mobile applications and other worldwide components serried in new ways. Enabling a digital layer for information, tenancy and liaison opens a wide new range of possibilities for responsive and urgently controlled public spaces. This can be accomplished, not by towers an streamlined ‘smart city’, but by empowering a generation of conscious ‘smart citizens’ that use their digital data and tools to transmute their urban environment to their own needs. In the next post, we will introduce increasingly in detail the strategy from “how” to “what”, describing the diamond features aiming to reactivate two key places of West Palm Beach: the Waterfront and the Passageways. Stay tuned! PS. Here we share then the full document if you want to read increasingly well-nigh ourUnshutShore proposal. TAGS: climate transpiration + competition + ecological tideway + ecosistema urbano + global resilience strategy + mangrove islands + Miami + mix urban minutiae +UnshutShore + pedagogical tideway + renaturalize + resiliency + sea level rise + shore to cadre + smart citizens + stormwater management + Strategies + sustainability + urban catalyzers + urban reactivation + urban renovation + Van Alen Institute + waterfront + West Palm Beach + wetland renaturalization + wind resiliency + year round worriedness Comments (1) Ramon Gomez said on 03-01-2018 I strongly agree. We need to bring increasingly diverse attractions (not only restaurants) for both residents and tourists. We need to bring tourists and money to our county, modernize our airports and seaport. Beautiful project! Congratulations Reply Post a scuttlebutt Click here to cancel reply. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website