04_23_24 Approach

 Approach

Theory

Residual space is a phenomenon created by modern and contemporary urban planning practices. These practices consist of large cultural, technological, and economic shifts that occur outside the consideration of how residual space is created. Along with the characteristics of social change described, residual spaces are primarily produced through top-down city planning approaches stringent on obeying zoning, the automobile, and more benign geographic factors. Many times, products of top-down urban planning are resultant of specialists that fail to connect to the place they’re transforming. Consequently, these outside planners fail to create improvised space planning strategies to utilize residual space to its maximum.

Defining the Research

Seeing as creation of residual space is inherently a mismanagement of space and capital used to fund urban planning projects, more specifically hard infrastructural projects, it’s imperative this topic be researched to ensure engagement of funding is properly used to benefit communities not only through creation of hard infrastructures but the hybridization of them to provide community services beyond those expected.

Research will be found primarily through traditional forms of scholarship like literature review. More specifically, this literature review will consist of discovering existing hybridized infrastructural projects, proposed, and incomplete through case studies and correlational research. Identifying why specific projects are successful and or fail to materialize based on varying factors like funding, location, demographic, city policies, zoning laws, social amenity, environmental, etc… will be the focus of my research. From there, I plan to retroactively apply successful attributes of realized hybridized infrastructure projects to identify any viability with these projects through writing analysis and drawings to visually show adapted solutions if required. This broadens the knowledge of understanding hybridized infrastructures and their viability within urban settings and why they may not be more prevalent in society.

Specific Tactics

Utilizing case study principles found in Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia, I will synthesize information found based on funding, location, demographic, city policies, zoning laws, social amenity, environmental, problem, solution, scenario, and results.

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Parameters

Currently, I plan to study 2 successful hybridized infrastructures of contemporary relevance. I will need to research these and study them holistically to understand their structure and ways of working successfully. Additionally, I will find 2 projects that failed to materialize to apply successful qualities to and or better understand limitations to creating successful hybridized infrastructures to advance knowledge in this field for future applications in the built environment. I am currently interested in studying publicly funded or jointly funded hybridized infrastructures to advance the agenda of collective funding of a community focused project and amenity. I think I will have to be specific about what kind of infrastructures or hybridized infrastructures I study to properly apply successful attributes to any project that wasn’t viable.

 Timeline

Week 1 Begin PT 1	Successful Case Study 1 Research and Investigation
Week 2	Successful Case Study 1 Analysis and Synthesis
Week 3	Successful Case Study 2 Research and Investigation
Week 4	Successful Case Study 2 Analysis and Synthesis
Week 5	Failed Case Study 1 Research and Investigation
Week 6	Failed Case Study 1 Analysis and Synthesis
Week 7	Failed Case Study 2 Research and Investigation
Week 8	Failed Case Study 2 Analysis and Synthesis (Spring Break?)
Week 9 End PT 1	Finish Part One Synthesis of Capstone this Week
Week 10 Begin PT 2	Analyze Failed Case Study 1 and Apply Principles of Any Successful Case Study to it – Write and Create Drawing
Week 11	Finishing Writing and Drawing
Week 12	Analyze Failed Case Study 2 and Apply Principles of Any Successful Case Study to it – Write and Create Drawing
Week 13 End Pt 2	Finishing Writing and Drawing
Week 14	Finish Capstone Paper
Week 15	Final Edits and Capstone Defense
Week 16	Finals Week Presentation

 

Most likely will be finding precedents to study in the Summer before capstone semester.