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SaVE_DETROIT
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SaVE_DETROIT is a pedestrian-focused, urbane space in a city where the density of metropolitan life is now being re-found and re-imagined; a destination for the Detroit of the next twenty years. It clusters culinary, design, and technology firms with digital fabrication and live/work space on one site, cross-pollinating through hyper-localization. Positioned between a new People Moverstation and the future M-1 stop at Woodward Avenue, the complex is a vibrant destination where urban retail is re-imagined as a hotbed of creative synergy able to cast a city-wide net of innovation and to support Downtown Detroit’s emergence as a national center for creative industries. By condensing the process of creation, production, and distribution into a single block, and by decentralizing theblock’s role in the city, this project defines a new possibility in creative urban production.PlacemakingTo the pedestrian visiting this site, the project is a tightly-knit place of shopping, galleries, and nightlife, a bustling hub in the middle of downtown with direct mass transit access. To the designer, programmer, engineer, or culinary professional who works and lives there, it is a center for innovation and growth where relationships are developed and nurtured by the distinctive character of the place.For the clients of these many firms the iconic presence of the built space becomes a brand in itself, a symbol of the flexible, driven, inventive new businesses now taking seed throughout the old center of Detroit.The City MattersThe complex fills the void along Woodward Avenue, leaving a broad open path up to an interior plaza with terraced seating offering a view of the busy corridor, access to multiple levels of retail, and the buzz of the creative cluster. The plaza gives the People Mover a grand new station and in turn uses the transit system as a distribution network for food, products, and ideas, a dynamic moving gallery.On the Farmer Street facade, one block of roadway is transformed into a park lined with pop-up cafes and restaurants fueled by the center’s culinary resources.Architectural formThe plan carves the block into four buildings divided by narrow pedestrian streets rising 25 feet from ground level to intersect at an intimate raised public square at their center. The horizontally striated exterior facade pixelates and cantilevers to mimic the scale and grain of the highly articulated facades of its surroundings. The whole block adds to the character of the streetscapes around it while alsocreating a distinctive sense of place for its internal pathways.
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