SALVATION ARMY KROC CENTER

CASE STUDY:

RECYCLING LAND

Salvation Army is a 87,000 s.f. highly diversified community center offering recreational facilities, job training, and educational and spiritual programs for the Germantown and Nicetown neighborhoods.

The project location, a 13-acre contaminated brownfield, was an industrial site and parking lot. After site analysis and contamination review, Andropogon developed a comprehensive landscape approach to accommodate the new site and facilities. The project includes an urban farm, synthetic turf field, playground, and a network of rain gardens and cisterns.

Andropogon’s plan for the Salvation Army presents one of the most comprehensive sustainable landscape approaches in the City of Philadelphia through a combination of water management techniques and site waste recycling strategies.

FOSTERING SOCIAL FRAMEWORKS

PREPARING GROUND

REVISITING ECOLOGY

RECYCLING LAND

‘THE LAND RECYCLING [ENCOURAGES THE] PUBLIC SECTOR CLEANUP OF CONTAMINATED, VACANT OR OTHERWISE UNDERUTILIZED PROPERTIES AND RETURN THEM TO PRODUCTIVE USE’ -PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION HTTP://WWW.PORTAL.STATE.PA.US/PORTAL/SERVER.PT/COMMUNITY/LAND_RECYCLING_PROGRAM/20541

FOUND CONDTIONS

ACTIVEINFRASTRUCTURE

NON-DESCRIPTREMNANTS

INDUSTRIALLEGACY

EMERGENTNATURE

PREPARING GROUND

NEARLY ALL OF THE SITE’S EXISTING PAVEMENTS WERE REUSED ON-SITE, SAVING $575,000 IN DISPOSAL FEES.

THIS PREVENTED 17,500 TONS OF MATERIALS FROM ENTERING LANDFILLS.

WHAT DO 17,500 TONS OF BUILDING MATERIAL LOOK LIKE?

1 CUBIC YARD

30’

RAIL BALLAST375 CY

12,495 CUBIC YARDS OF ON-SITE MATERIALS KEPT:

CONCRETE2,406 CY

1 CUBIC YARD

ASPHALT2,692 CY

AGGREGATE STONE7,022 CY

ON-SITE MATERIALS

EARTHWORK STRATEGYCUTIMPERVIOUS SURFACES

WITH ON-SITE MATERIALS

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REVISITING ECOLOGY

HOW MUCH STORMWATER STAYS ON SITE?*

2 YEAR STORM

10 YEAR STORM

100 YEAR STORM

98%97%64%

*MULTIVALENT LANDSCAPE: THE SALVATION ARMY KROC COMMUNITY CENTER CASE STUDY // MARY MYERS

ECOLOGICAL VALUE

INCREASED ECOLOGICAL QUALITY BY 34X THAT OF FORMER SITE

*AS MEASURED BY THE PLANT STEWARDSHIP INDEX: MULTIVALENT LANDSCAPE: THE SALVATION ARMY KROC COMMUNITY CENTER CASE STUDY // MARY MYERS

ECOLOGICAL VALUE

15,293 LBS OF CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTERED BY THE 562 NEW TREES AND SHRUBS PLANTED ONSITE*

*AS MEASURED BY TREE BENEFIT CALCULATOR SALVATION ARMY KROC COMMUNITY CENTER // LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION

FOSTERING SOCIAL FRAMEWORKS

LAYERED VALUE

BEFORE

AFTER

PARKING IMPOUNDMENT

SALVATION ARMY COMMUNITY CENTER

URBAN AGRICULTURERECREATIONAL FIELDS

OUTDOOR PAVILION

PERVIOUS PARKING

PLAYGROUND

RAIN GARDENS

‘BIG IDEA’

MULTI-LAYERED LANDSCAPEECOLOGY / COMMUNITY / CITY

REVITALIZING AN UNPRODUCTIVE INDUSTRIAL SITE

PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICES TO A PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY

ENCOURAGE LANDSCAPE LITERACY

‘WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL IS THE CONVICTION THAT EVEN PEOPLE OF SMALL MEANS DESERVE THE BEST’-INGA SAFFRON, INQUIRER ARCHITECTURE CRITIC / MARCH 25, 2011

POSITIONING

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