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
A PERFORMATIVE PLATFORM
0’-1’ 1’-2’ 2’-3’ 4’+-
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GRADE
FILL
0’-1’ 1’-2’ 2’-3’ 4’+
SECTION STRATEGY
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PARKLAND UPLANDCARLAND
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
POSITIONING