Texas A&M University TEAM #3Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning College of Architecture

REDEFINE MEMORY

LAND601 LAND ARCH DES THRY APP I

INSTRUCTOR: CHANAM LEE

LEADER: CAROLINA PENA ROJAS

MEMBERS: MENGFEI BAO, RUI ZHU,

YAXUAN HAN

10/21/2015

UBRICA ONEUstawi Biomedical Research Innovation and Industrial Centers of Africa

The urban form represents an accumulated memory of its origins and the way it has grown.

CONTENT

1. MISSION STATEMENT

2. GOALS & OBJECTIVES

3. CONCEPTS

4. RESEARCH & CASE STUDY

5. LOCATION & CONTEXT

6. MASTER PLAN

TEAM: HAN, ZHU, BAO, PENA

1 MISSION STATEMENT

MISSION STATEMENTThe master planning of the “Redefined” Biomedical Industrial City is proposed to meet a full range of healthcare needs as well as different development centers on a 4,000 acre property in Nakuru, Kenya. The spatial arrangement in this location will include:1. Medical district: One main hospital with different specialty centers and two medical universities.2. Research district: Centers and laboratories with advanced science in biomedicine.3. Industrial district: A biomedical industrial park which includes pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing. 4. Residential and mixed-use: A residential community of different densities and mixed-use buildings.5. Recreation and tourism: Diverse recreational spaces for the tourists and the local people. This master planning stimulates a redefinition, focus and expansion of the human, animal, environment and economic areas. The historic and local traditions will be also preserved and promoted to maintain the essence of the place.

RECREATION AND TOURISM

HOSPITAL RESEARCHZ

MIXED-USE INDUSTRIAL

2 GOALS & OBJECTIVES

GOALS & OBJECTIVES

Environment Economy

Culture

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Environment Incorporate multi-functional green infrastructure Support sustainable and low impact developments

Economy Provide diverse and mixed land uses Provide diverse opportunities for tourism Support employment and education opportunities

Health Promote human’s health Promote animal’s health Enhance the sense of health

Culture Local tribe culture Local vegetation

Transportation Encourage transit oriented development (TOD)

3 CONCEPTS

CONCEPTS

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rE Rethink Retreat Refresh Reorganize

dE Development

FINE Good for human health Good for energy saving Good for wildlife protection Good for economy

Redefine memory

CONCEPTS

GOOD MEMORY

BAD MEMORY

CONCEPTS

Relationship between Green Spaces and Memory

Sensory Memory

CONCEPTS

RETHINK

REORGANIZE

REJUVENTAE

Existing green spaces (Old memory)

Define new green spaces(new memory), while retaining best existing green spaces.

Connect the new green spaces and existing green spaces to become an entire urban green spaces system.

CONCEPTS

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4 RESEARCH & CASE STUDY

HUMAN, ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMY, ANIMAL

Green spaces have a range of health benefits, but little is known in relation to cognitive development in children. This study, based on comprehensive characterization of outdoor surrounding greenness (at home, school, and during commuting) and repeated computerized cognitive tests in schoolchildren, found an improvement in cognitive development associated with surrounding greenness, particularly with greenness at school. This association was partly mediated by reductions in air pollution. Our findings provide policymakers with evidence for feasible and achievable targeted interventions such as improving green spaces at schools to attain improvements in mental capital at population level.

PNAS 2015 112 (26) 7873-7874; doi:10.1073/iti2615112Edited by Susan Hanson, Clark University, Worcester, MA, and approved May 15, 2015

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/26/7937.abstract?tab=related

Human

• Greenness• Preferred working experience• Cognitive development

AnimalEnvironment&Economy

• Sustainibility• Low cost• Enivorment-friendly• Upgoing tendency

• Connection among habitats• Protection of natural ecosystems• Maintaning biodiversity

CASE STUDY SUMMARIESCentenary CityLocation: Abuja, NigeriaYear: 2013 - 2014Size: 1,200 haTopic : Urban plan

Project Description: Abuja Centenary City is designed to work in harmony with nature, it is a city within a city that will offer complete cosmopolitan lifestyle to its residents, as well as serves as a hub for the wider community

Design Strategies:-A GREEN CITY - with a natural buffer that envelopes the entire City and encircles the central neighbourhood that protects and nurtures the whole city with public -A CENTRAL PARK - that provides the green-spirit which gives orientation, clarity and iconic power to the City as a whole but most powerfully to the City Centre.-AN URBAN GRID - super-block system that is modular and organic, yielding a resulting grid of arteries, streets and pathways with an efficient traffic system where pedestrians, bicycles, motorcars, trams and monorail can co-exist in a friendly human way.-A NEW CEREMONIAL ARCADES (UNITY SQUARE) - To compliment the Eagle Square to add color to Government ceremonies and activities.-The master plan envisages dense central areas set within a system of windmill-like arterial roads that formulated a central core and heart of the new district.

Inspirations:-Use arterial green space system to be heart of the new city-Create the central square to provides city spirit which gives iconic power to the whole city-Consider some areas which provides local peoples to expand their culture

CASE STUDY SUMMARIESPalomar Medical Center Healing Gardens Location: San Diego CountyDesign Team: CO ArchitectsSize: 736 000 ft2

Topic : Healing garden

Project Description:

Palomar Health had a strong desire to create a healing and green environment, building a garden hospital. Evidence shows that access to nature reduces stress associated with the typical clinical environment and has a positive healing effect on patients. Findings such as these drove the integration of healing gardens into all areas of the medical center’s campus, re-connecting patients, workers, and visitors with nature. Design Strategies:

1.The Tower Gardens begin at the arrival court and extend up through the central tower by way of a series of terraces at each floor. 2.The approximately 1.5-acre Green Roof above the two-story diagnostic-and-treatment wing offers calming views from the tower rooms above. 3.Each addresses different aspects of healing and provides a specialized character and experience for individual relaxation or socializing. 4.The Mall Gardens comprise the primary pedestrian circulation through the campus and engage the arrival court for automobiles, entrance lobby, and garden beyond.

Inspirations:1.Connect existing natural green space and artificial landscape2.Connect interior landscape and outdoor landscape3.Consider both medical staff and patients

CASE STUDY SUMMARIESSERVER ProjectLocation: Sheffield, UKTopic : Experimental agricultureYear : 2009

Project Description: Alastair Parvin’s project SERVER, proposes an Experimental Agricultural Belt (EAB) along an 8 mile stretch of the M1.

Overview:

The project proposes a radically different approach to sustainability issues from that usually offered by contemporary design culture.The project takes a section of the M1 motorway in the Midlands and investigates its redesign as a self-sufficient farming system; a belt of knowledge-intensive agriculture, producing no waste and consuming minimal external resources. Based on existing processes, prices and capacities, it begins with the production of biodiesel from algae, and the residual biomass which is used as a cattle feedstock.

Vitals:

Sustainability

Innovative agriculture.

Improves local economy

5 LOCATION & CONTEXT

LOCATION

Recap: bad memory

BASE MAP

SUSWA MOUNTAIN

LONGONOT MOUNTAIN

LAKE NAIVASHA NATIONAL PARK

HELL'S GATE NATIONAL PARK

CONTEXTWIND

https://weatherspark.com/averages/29282/-Coast-Kenyahttps://www.safaribookings.com/kenya/climate

Wind Speed

Wind Directions Over the Entire Year

• Relatively uniform strength of wind• Reasonably focused direction of wind• Feasibilitry of wind energy utilization

Zone Appr. Area (km2)

% Total

I. Agro-Alphine 800 0.1II. High Potential 53,000 9.3III. Medium Potential

53,000 9.3

IV. Semi-Arid 48,200 8.5V. Arid 300,000 52.9VI. Very arid 112,000 19.8Rest (waters etc) 15600 2.6

http://www.infonet-biovision.org/default/ct/690/agrozoneshttp://agroforesttrees.cisat.jmu.edu/climate_natural.htm

NATURAL VEGETATION

Most vegetation on the site is wooded tall grassland. We could conserve some and develop the vegetation to other useful functions to redefine the area.

AGRICULTUREAGRICULTURE

• European-owned coffee, tea, sisal plantations and cash crops are mainly crops

• About 80% of the work force engages in agriculture • Farming in Kenya is typically carried out by individuals or small groups• These groups contributes to 75% of total production

http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Kenya-AGRICULTURE.html#ixzz3p5nDaZjc

Agricultural Redevelope:Tourism

6 MASTER PLAN

ZONING DIAGRAM

Hospital Residential Research

Medical CampusMixed-use Industrial Park

SCHEMATIC MASTER PLAN

GOOD NEW MEMORIES

PHASING PLAN

TRAFFIC ROUTES

WATER SYSTEM

GREEN SPACE SYSTEM

FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS

BUILDING AREA

BASE MAP

PLANT ANALYSIS

PERSPECTIVE VIEWSThe purpose of the traditional commerce area is to conserve the local traditions and use them to attract tourists and disseminate the richness of their culture.

PERSPECTIVE VIEWSIn the commercial area, people can have access to many facilities without traveling long distances. As a consequence, good memories are going appear as well as a better economy for the locality.

PERSPECTIVE VIEWSIn this view, it is shown how the new hospitals are going to recover the city’s image and the health of their people. Thus, the community is going to create new good memories based on their improved healthcare.

PERSPECTIVE VIEWSThis view shows the close relationship that hospitals and research facilities need to maintain in order to produce an effective medical progress.

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