AMARANTH ART SQUARE
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Incremental & Complex Spaces Options for Various Experiences Programmatic Flexibility
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This project, located on Lisbon Avenue, proposes a new building dedicated to the arts. The objective of this proposal is provide the community a space where dreams become reality, where experiences and making of art promote shared authorship, social life, and community building. Amaranth Art Square hopes to revitalize the underutilized spaces currently within the neighborhood. The neighborhood is filled with nearby artist studios and art institutions. The development of an "art square" will address, expand and connect the current art networks already established within this area. Using the vacant lots located on the intersection of Lisbon Avenue and 33rd Street, the Amaranth Art Square proposal hopes to transform this site into a destination point for the city.
The development is split between two major elements: a new building that acts as the core and an existing green space, landscaped and retrofitted to develop an "outdoor square" that spans across Lisbon Avenue into the area around Amaranth Cafe. As a core element, the new building will draw attention to the redevelopment of the street edge and landscape. The structure is designed to house arts organizations present in this neighborhood — potentially as a new building for Express Yourself Milwaukee or an extension of Our Next Generation Inc. (to serve youth through the arts), or as a new center for the arts to connect all cultures and ages of the community. The many nodes within this complex — the arts building, the landscaped courtyards, the Amaranth Alley, Express Yourself Pop-up park and Amaranth Courtyard — are interconnected and carefully organized as a choreographed sequence.
The design addresses how to create and enhance community capacity at urban, landscape, and architectural scales. The architectural spaces are complex, addressing human scale and sensory experience. The project is incremental and the landscape and architectural designs develop over time. The building materials (tectonics) enhance the architectural experience while the outdoor and indoor spaces are carefully intertwined. Today, the fast moving traffic along Lisbon Avenue passes this neighborhood by without a second thought, but the "Amaranth Arts Square" seeks to slow them down, create a destination for the city and the local community and stimulate a positive change for the residents.
The development is split between two major elements: a new building that acts as the core and an existing green space, landscaped and retrofitted to develop an "outdoor square" that spans across Lisbon Avenue into the area around Amaranth Cafe. As a core element, the new building will draw attention to the redevelopment of the street edge and landscape. The structure is designed to house arts organizations present in this neighborhood — potentially as a new building for Express Yourself Milwaukee or an extension of Our Next Generation Inc. (to serve youth through the arts), or as a new center for the arts to connect all cultures and ages of the community. The many nodes within this complex — the arts building, the landscaped courtyards, the Amaranth Alley, Express Yourself Pop-up park and Amaranth Courtyard — are interconnected and carefully organized as a choreographed sequence.
The design addresses how to create and enhance community capacity at urban, landscape, and architectural scales. The architectural spaces are complex, addressing human scale and sensory experience. The project is incremental and the landscape and architectural designs develop over time. The building materials (tectonics) enhance the architectural experience while the outdoor and indoor spaces are carefully intertwined. Today, the fast moving traffic along Lisbon Avenue passes this neighborhood by without a second thought, but the "Amaranth Arts Square" seeks to slow them down, create a destination for the city and the local community and stimulate a positive change for the residents.
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Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design (5th edition); Barry Starke
Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: a field guide; Peter del Tredici
The Book of Leaves, Allen J. Coombes
UWSP “Rain Garden Species for Full to Partial Sun”
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