Winners
Entry 193: Forwarding Dallas
Firm: Atelier Data & MOOV
Lisbon, Portugal
Authors: António Louro (MOOV), Filipe Vogt (Atelier Data), Marta Frazão (Atelier Data)
Collaborators: André Almeida (Atelier Data), Carolina Pombo (Atelier Data), Inês Vicente (Atelier Data), José Niza (MOOV), João Calhau (MOOV)
Landscape architecture: Susana Rodrigues
Energy efficiency and resources: Maria João Rodrigues, João Parente
Concept communication: João Rato
Forwarding Dallas is modeled after one of the most diverse system in nature, the hillside. This site is a series of valleys and hilltops that contain native vegetation to Dallas and become more hearty and resistant with altitude. The hills function to maximize the harvest of solar thermal, photovoltaic, and wind energy. This design intends to efficiently and effectively collect resources for residential and commercial consumption. Water will be collected on the rooftop, recycled and stored underground for grey water usage and irrigation. Construction of Forwarding Dallas will make the best use of natural lighting and ventilation based on the location of the building.
Among the design components are:
- Open green spaces including wooded paths and interior courtyards as well as a green roof and orchard
- 100% prefabricated construction system integrating building materials from local sources
- Housing options from studio apartments to three bedroom flats fit to accommodate 854 residents
- Combination of photovoltaic and wind power providing 100% of the energy needed for residents
- The Southwest façade for the solar gain in a Venetian Blind concept which adjusts according to the season
- The Northeast façade is made entirely from thick, high thermal mass straw bales which provides added insulation
- Water permeable paved areas to prevent pooling and flooding
Entry 136: Greenways Xero Energy
Firm: David Baker and Partners Architects and Fletcher Studio
San Francisco, CA
Mark Hogan, Amit Price Patel, Ian Dunn, Amanda Loper
From Fletcher Studio: David Fletcher, Sarah Donato
Rendering assistance from Mike Brown and Megan Morris of Medized.
Greenways Xero Energy aims to build sustainability and profitability in the community setting. Community gardens, vertical farming, and water capture are at the basis of the community unit. This design best captures Dallas’ solar exposure and rainfall. The vegetation will be placed in balconies and on the ground level to improve air quality and provide a basis of economy through communal farming. Solar energy will fuel the hot water heaters on top of the building and produce electricity during the day. Greenways Xero Energy hopes to springboard future development in a growing sustainable city and focus on making connections with surrounding neighborhoods. By nature of its concept, Greenways Xero Energy allows for easy integration of surrounding areas into the block each ‘district’ with a unique identity. Pedestrian-friendly “greenways” serve as the public space infrastructure and multi-modal transit center that decreases necessity of cars. The facility is powered using photovoltaic arrays and solar hot water panels. Shading on the south side of the building reduces cooling loads significantly and geothermal tubes help to mediate temperature swings.
Among the design components are:
- Ground-level and balcony gardens to provide shade and improve air quality
- Emphasis on urban agriculture creates a platform for self-sustainability through practices such as vertical farming and slow food restaurants
- Domestic solar hot water system
- Photovoltaic panels in a grid-tied system on south end produces electricity during daylight hours
Entry 113: Entangled Bank
Firm: Little
Charlotte, North Carolina
Team Members:
Bradley Bartholomew, Ashley Spink, Stacy Franz, Kevin Franz, Kumar Karadi, Don Breemes, Coby Watts, Chad Lukenbaugh, Jason Bizzaro, Ryan Davis, Philippe Bouyer, Bo Sun
The Entangled Bank is a mixed use development combines residence and retail, making each sustainable through the integration of education and green technology. On top of the Entangled Bank is a green roof with vegetation and a sky pasture to sustain ‘Dexter’ livestock that require less dietary consumption and can thrive on pastures where other cattle would starve. The sky pasture is also available for each tenant in the community to grown produce for their own consumption or resale in the market. The power utility system outfitted with vertical axis wind turbine that produces 50% more electricity than conventional turbines. This is best suited to the Dallas median wind needed to generate the turbines. A grey water treatment will be redistributed for irrigation. This plan is designed to incorporate education with sustainable profitability through the Organic Farming Institute and a Slow Food Restaurant. Food will be grown on site for the organic grocery store and host produce from many local organic farmers.
Among the design components are:
- Intensive green roof system providing the base structure for an elevated park
- Grain field providing seasonal vegetation for livestock grazing in the sky pasture
- A vertical farm which climbs the side of the building for tenant use
- Photovoltaic panels are attached to the exterior providing up to 100% of the power required on each of the 500 units
- Vertical axis wind turbine will provide power for core needs including common lighting, retail space and parking level ventilation
- Glass ponds on the elevated park level captures runoff from rooftop vegetation
Honorable Mentions
CO-OP Canyon
Firm: Standard LLP: architect
Los Angeles, CA
Team Members: Jeff Allsbrook, partner, Silvia Kuhle, partner. Project team: Alex Babich, Brandon Bown, Alexis Caver, Gregg Oelker, Kazu Shichishima. IBE Consulting: MEP, sustainable design, Peter Simmonds, senior associate, Patrick Wilkinson. Thornton Thomasetti: structure. Bruce Gibbons, principal, Christopher Kahanek. Coen Partners: landscape architect. Stephanie Grotta, principal, Erica Christianson, Bryan Kramer. Atelier 10: sustainable consultant, Claire Johnson. Davis Langdon, cost estimate. Ethan Burrows, associate principal. Jane Northey. Los Angeles, CA
CO-OP CANYON is a cooperative community of 1,000 people living together in terraced cliff dwellings overlooking lush urban canyon. Residents gain equity in the co-op through participation in construction, agricultural, maintenance, education and conservation programs central to the sustenance of the community.
The dwelling terraces are lined with FRONT YARD gardens hosting native plants that vary in color and texture as they ascend above the canyon floor; BACKYARD gardens punctuate the ends of the terraces. Below, in the green CANYON FLOOR residents exchange knowledge and resources under the shade of trees. Small live-work and commercial spaces, child care, play and fitness spaces and the COMMUNITY KITCHEN, the co-op’s wellness center, are active with people, while native birds and insects inhabit the canyon’s plantings. The canyon walls are relatively thin, ample natural illumination and air circulation within the dwellings.
At the street level, these porous walls form the threshold between the community and the urban context, linking the terraced canyon floor to the streets of Dallas. Vertical circulation to the dwellings is travels through SKIP-STOP lobbies, where an elevator stops on one level of multi-story space, and stairs lead to adjacent levels. Skip stop lobbies promote fitness and interaction; they are the DRIVEWAY spaces where residents share laundry facilities, recycling chutes, and exercise bikes.
FOOD is the thread that knits the community together. Garden allotments, both concentrated in the project’s Community Farm, and dispersed throughout the backyard terraces, allow residents to grow, exchange and share canyon-grown produce. Hobbyists grow produce for daily needs and informal exchange in the Backyard allotments, and the terraces host small gatherings and cookouts. The Community Farm is the focal point of the southern canyon, situated on the stepped terraces that link the levels of the canyon floor.
Produce from the Community Farm is consumed in the Community Kitchen and sold in the market spaces below. The Community Kitchen, where the exchange of knowledge about healthy diet, cultural and family cooking techniques is a resource for healthy eating. Located adjacent to the child care center and the fitness center, the Community Kitchen offers regular classes and food tastings focused on nutrition, locally grown produce, and sharing cultural traditions. The Community Kitchen is a part of holistic approach to health that includes exercise and intergenerational social interaction encouraged by work in the canyon’s gardens.
Seeds of Integration
Firm: Morris Architects
Houston, TX
Team Members: Dallas Felder, Jonathan LaRocca, Paul Kweton, Shawn Lutz, Hidekazu Takahashi, Lysle Oliveros, Marsha Bowden, Christof Spieler, Doug Childers, Tim Murray, Douglas Oliver, Christine Braunger
A RADICAL PROPOSAL / A PRACTICAL SOLUTION
This is a bold vision for the creation of a sustainable city block in Dallas, Texas.
We believe a radical proposal is necessary because of the following four challenges:
*Cities & Nature: In the next decade, important decisions about the future of cities and their surrounding agricultural land will have consequences for millions of people. The deteriorating infrastructure of urban areas must be rebuilt. There are hidden rewards for re-building our urban cores in tune with nature.
*Cities & Economies: Research has shown that if you want a thriving suburban area, then you better have a thriving city. If you want a state as a whole to do well, then the metrolitan areas in that state have to do well. There is no separation. It is all linked together. We have to get rid of this notion that we can just leave cities to rot, because your economy will eventually rot. We want to work to revitalize cities – to diversify their economy. We need to build better cities.
*Cities, Placemaking, & Environments: Single-family home ownership remains (at least in the US) as a goal for many people. How can higher-density urbanism attract that same desirability? What aspects of higher-density urbanism are in most need of re-evaluation?When you build closer together, you also create conditions for dramatic energy & cost savings.
*Cities & Food: When you consider that everyday, for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro Area, enough food for 18,900,000 meals must be produced, imported, sold, cooked, eaten, and disposed of again; it is remarkable that we get to eat at all. Feeding cities takes a gargantuan effort; one that arguable has a greater social and physical impact on our lives and planet than anything else we do. Food issues need to be emphasized in the daunting complexity of planning and designing our modern cities.
At the metropolitan and regional scale, it is clear that more compact urban development provides the only sustainable solution to the problem of designing cities today. At the turn of the twenty-first century, the world is faced with an unprecedented challenge: it must address the fundamental shift in the world’s populations towards cities; away from mankind’s rural roots.
Given that more than half of the world’s population is now living in cities, the core of this inquiry holds a belief that the future well being of cities requires an understanding of the links between the built environment – housing, buildings, transportation, infrastructure, streets, and public spaces – and food production, distribution, and consumption.
Given it’s central location, the Dallas Urban Re:Vision site offers a fantastic potential to revitalize this sector of Dallas, re-invigorating development.
Commonwealth
Firm: PI.KL
San Diego, CA
Team Members: Kuo Pao Lian, Pavlina Ilieva
A self-generative community in the urban re-development would eliminate the notion of over-consumption and rapid growth. Instead, a new system of relational components will evolve within the existing environment where every new urban component will be introduced by harnessing all resources and facilities available locally while providing additional support mechanisms back to the urban environment.
The emphasis falls on the ability to grow a community naturally and gradually, developing a home-grown socioeconomic sustainability by investing in the proper handling of the natural environment and technology and the full utilization of local social capital.
This holistic approach to our collective future promotes natural diversity, social adaptability and shared resources, revealing the true value of humanity’s COMMONWEALTH , a vision of a community that
- DOES NOT HARM THE ENVIRONMENT – restores and revives
- RESPECTS HUMANS AND ALL OTHER SPECIES – nurtures life
- GENERATES EQUALITY AND PROSPERITY – provides lasting and empowering connections among all.
Making “more with less” naturally reduces the impact of social and environmental degradation against increasing needs and depleting resources, but it doesn’t restore, adapt and reciprocate as it merely seeks to mitigate the consequences of a self-inflicted condition. We need to restore the abundance of resources and engage in a system that generates more than it takes away. We can be “on the grid” of a new urban fabric that effectively connects and distributes self-generated resources by adapting to existing conditions and seeking natural connections and interrelations among humans and between nature and society.
