MAT-Housing / Mix Use
Location: Downtown Lincoln, Nebraska
Address: Pershing Center
226 Centennial Mall S, Lincoln, NE
Porgram: Commercial, Grocery, Housing, Retail
Class: ARCH 510
Professor: Steve Hardy
Individual Project
Project Brief:
Pershing Center site will be investigated on its various
program opportunity types for its future redevelopment. Furthermore, by investigating
what program types would be best suited for its current state of being a high-volume
block located in downtown Lincoln, NE.
Current Program type: Event Center
New Program type: Farmer’s Market, Retail, Art Galley, Grocery, Teaching Kitchen, Office, & Housing
Ground Level: Farmers Market, Retail, Art Gallery, Grocery, Teaching Kitchen.
Level 2: Office
Level 3: Housing
Project Research:
1. Jeffersonian Grid System
Lincoln, NE follows the Jeffersonian Grid method and land ordinances method thus creating the city layout we have today.
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2. Sperpinski Sponge:
is a fractal curve. It is a three-dimensional generalization of the one-dimensional Cantor. Creating a Fractal or pixel.
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3. Porosity:
The state of permeability within a building space, allowing movement in specificed directions.
4. Visual Porosity: The level of penetration in which generates and detects new internal or external responses.
Precendent Studies:
Hourglass Tower
+ Architect: MVRDV
+ Location: Vienna, Austria
+ Type: Mix-Use
Glass
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Design District
+ Architect: Foster + Partners
+ Location: Dubahi, Unitedarab Emirates
+ Type: Master Plan
Visual Graphics
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Mad Building
+ Mad Arkiteker
+ Location: Oslo, Norway
+ Type: Housing
Screening
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Habitate 2.0
+ Architect: BIG
+ Location: Toronto, Cananda
+ Type: Housing
Layering & Smaller dwellings
Building Massing Diagram:
Greeble Building Diagram:
Building Floor Plans
Housing Floor Plan:
Greebal Building Diagram:
Scale: 1” =20’-0”
Building Section Cuts:
Scale: 1” = 20’-0”
Building Elevation:
East Elevation
Scale: 1” = 20’-0”
Urban Drawing:
As Lincoln’s downtown blocks decay over time, the fractal building system can sprawl in and around the current city block as it slowly decays—creating more ornate spaces for the future of Lincoln’s Downtown.
Top View
Isometric View:
Final Building Renders:
Exterior Corner:
+ 16th & N Street
Farmer’s Market
+ Light Well seen in background allowing light in along with providing an outdoor space to relax.
Mat-Housing Level
+ Light well allowing light down to Plinth Level courtyard
