Summary
Design Competition ObjectiveHow can a city respond to the
crisis of vacancy? Philadelphia, with over 40,000 vacant properties
representing nearly 1,000 acres, has become one of the nation's
foremost examples of urban abandonment and extensive sprawl. The
competition sponsors invite participants to suggest compelling ideas
for Philadelphia’s vacantland and imagine fantastic long-term
solutions that inspire change and reshape urban and natural forms
throughout the city.
Eligibility
The competition sponsors encourage entrants to work in teams,
although individuals may also enter. For more information, see
Eligibility.
Schedule
Wednesday September 7, 2005 Registration begins Friday October 7,
2005 Late registration begins (5:00 pm) Monday November 14, 2005
Registration ends; deadline for questions (5:00 pm) Monday November
21, 2005 Answers posted online Friday January 6, 2006 Entries due
online (5:00 pm) February 2006 Results announced; entries exhibited
to the public
Competition Awards
In the first phase of the competition, up to five finalist teams
will receive $5,000 each and will continue on to the next phase,
Reconnecting the Lots.
Registration
Registration is online. The registration fee is $150 USD
(registration is $180 USD after 5:00 pm Friday October 7, 2005).
Note that no shipping or printing is required as files will be
submitteddigitally (see Submission Format below).
Submission Format
To ensure fair evaluation of all boards and to eliminate printing
and postage fees for entrants all entrants will submit only digital
files. The competition organizers will be responsible for printing,
mounting, and laminating all boards. All files will be
professionally printed as high-quality (200 dpi) prints, laminated,
and mounted on 1/4" Gator board. Two 30” x 40” boards at 200dpi in
PDF format are required, together with smaller JPEG versions of the
same files (600 x 800 pixels each), a single detail/thumbnail (100 x
100 pixels), and a Microsoft Word compatible document containing the
project description text. For more information about digital file
specifications, please see Rules & Eligibility.
Philadelphia LANDvisions Program Overview
Phase I: Our Voices, Our Future: Community Envisioning
Process
May 2005 - Philadelphia LANDvisions began in May 2005 with a series
of community meetings. A broad range of Philadelphia's residents and
stakeholders engaged in a series of community 'visioning' sessions
that looked at natural land and water resources at the regional
scale as well as neighborhood structure at the local scale.
Community participants learned from experts about the city's
ecological foundation—its hydrology and geology, and studied maps of
Philadelphia's extensive vacant lands, natural resources, and built
environment.
Town Meeting
May 5, 4-8 pm - Amtrak 30th Street Station The first gathering
brought over 400 people to 30th Street Station to imagine
possibilities for vacant land in the city. Participants were asked
to identify what they love about the city: all ideas were collected
and then voted upon using keypad polling, the results of which
appear on the Philadelphia LANDvisions website (www.landvisions.org).
The program continued with a series of short presentations providing
background on the current state of vacancy in the city as well as an
overview of the ecology of the region.
The session continued in smaller groups of 10: participants both
clarified their ideas and then expressed their hopes and aspirations
for the future of the city. Using innovative technology techniques,
these ideas were captured and made immediately available on the
website for public appreciation and ongoing involvement.
The River Corridors - May 18, 4-8pm
The Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing This session
applied the ideas from the Public Community Forum to issues related
to our river corridors. The meeting began with a series of
presentations of existing or planned projects that integrate our
rivers with recreational, residential, and commercial uses. The
session continued with a keypad vote on the 10 most critical themes,
such as “Living with Water,” “Creating New Communities,” and
“Economy and Jobs,” that emerged from the May 5th session.
Participants then broke into small groups to discuss the inherent
values, guiding principles, and strategies that follow from a
particular theme. Groups then shared their ideas with the larger
forum; you can view them here (www.landvisions.org).
The meeting concluded with a vote on the importance of each theme.
The Neighborhoods Session - May 25, 4-8pm
City Hall - The final session focused on how vacant lands can be
used to transform Philadelphia’s neighborhoods. After an initial
keypad polling exercise to determine the characteristics of those
present, participants began by discussing the assets and liabilities
of different types of vacancies within the city. Then, a mapping
exercise challenged participants to brainstorm uses for vacant lands
in an unidentified Philadelphia neighborhood. While some groups
concentrated on the environmental possibilities of vacant sites,
others directed their attention to social or economic options.
Finally, participants engaged in a storytelling exercise in which
they shared memories of their neighborhood’s past and their hopes
and wishes for its future. The keypad polling results, lists of
assets and iabilities, maps, and hopes and wishes can be viewed on
the Philadelphia LANDvisions website (www.landvisions.org).
Additionally, audio recordings of the storytelling exercise are also
available online. For more information see www.landvisions.org.
Phase II: Urban Voids: Grounds for Change
An International Design Ideas Competition
September 2005 — February 2006 - Entrants from around the world are
now asked to imagine new possibilities for designing a comprehensive
view of Philadelphia’s urban fabric that creates a new relationship
between ecology and the built environment. Submission of ideas will
make visible concepts that reconnect vacant land to the city's
existing green infrastructure. A prestigious multidisciplinary jury
will review and evaluate all submissions, making awards on criteria
that acknowledge a range of design ideas. The jury will select up to
five finalists who will receive monetary prizes and proceed into the
next phase of the competition.
Phase III: Reconnecting the Lots
February 2006 — May 2006 - During the third phase, Phase II
finalists will further develop strategies for implementing their
ideas. Teams will prepare a site-specific design proposal, focusing
on a designated area in Philadelphia. An advisory committee and
project partners will provide technical support as needed, matching
professional partners with the semi-finalist teams. Team members
will be encouraged to interact with neighborhood groups, experts in
the field, members of the business community, and elected officials
while developing their final submissions. A prestigious
multidisciplinary jury will review the final submissions. The
winning submission will receive recognition as well as a monetary
award. A key outcome from this competition will be the development
of innovative designs that will directly influence the plans of the
decision makers and implementers in Philadelphia. In addition, the
process will help formulate principles and emerging best practices
for issues of vacancy throughout the country.
Philadelphia History & Orientation
Philadelphia Orientation - Philadelphia sits at the confluence of
the Delaware River and its smaller tributary, the Schuylkill in
southeastern Pennsylvania, about 150 miles northeast of Washington
DC and about 100 miles southwest of New York City. Most of the city
lies between the two rivers in a riparian buffer zone where hundreds
of underground streams flow, although several Philadelphia
neighborhoods collectively known as West Philadelphia (including
Eastwick, Powelton, Mantua, and University City) are located across
the Schuylkill River to the west, and ferries and bridges connect
Philadelphia with Camden, New Jersey across the Delaware River to
the east. The center of Philadelphia is located at 39°59’53” north,
75°8’41” west. The current population of Philadelphia is about 1.5
million, down from a peak of about 2 million in 1950.
Philadelphia’s Natural Resources
Philadelphia has an extensive parks system anchored by Fairmount
Park and including urban squares, natural areas (including stream
corridors, woodlands, meadows and wetlands), street trees throughout
the city, and many neighborhood parks. The Philadelphia parks system
comprises about 8,900 acres in all. The city of Philadelphia spans
two physiographic regions, the Piedmont and the Inner Coastal Plain,
with the dividing line occurring at the fall line of the Fairmount
Water Works, where the first falls on the Schuylkill River are
located. Philadelphia generally receives from 30” to 50” of
precipitation most years (including about 20” of snowfall). Average
high temperatures vary from around 30°F in winter to around 87°F in
July and August, although high temperatures above 90°F are not
uncommon in during summer.
Local wildlife includes various species of coyotes, foxes, beavers,
peregrine falcons, red-tailed hawks, beavers, otters, raccoons,
snakes, rabbits, owls, frogs, deer, turtles, fish, and butterflies.
In addition, many migrating birds stop over in Philadelphia during
the spring and fall migration seasons. Local flora includes purple
coneflower, swamp milkweed, butterfly weed, swamp sunflower, swamp
mallow, blue-flag iris, bee balm, cinnamon fern, flowering dogwood,
quaking aspen, black cherry, willow oak, basswood, witch-hazel, and
wild rose, among many others.
Philadelphia History
Early History - William Penn received a land grant from King Charles
II of England for land west of the Delaware
River, where he looked to found a colony based on the Quaker ideals
of freedom and religious tolerance. He named and chose the site for
Philadelphia, the location of an earlier Swedish settlement, and
specified a grid with wide streets to avoid another disaster like
London’s 1666 Great Fire, as well as to embody his vision of a
“Greene Countrie Towne.” The original location of Philadelphia
comprises present day Center City and the waterfront area around
Penn’s Landing.
The original inhabitants of the Philadelphia area included the
Lenape who, despite William Penn’s pacifist Quaker beliefs, were
decimated by European diseases and eventually forced further west.
Philadelphia’s 1793 yellow-fever epidemic (the first in a series)
killed nearly 5,000 people in less than five months, and drove many
wealthy citizens to the suburbs. Philadelphia recovered, and
remained the largest city in the North American colonies until
overtaken by New York City in 1836.
Philadelphia continued to grow, becoming an early railroad hub,
which (together with its location on the Delaware River), made it a
major industrial center. In 1854 the city annexed surrounding
suburbs to reach its current size of 159 square miles.
Post-Industrial/Vacancy
As in many eastern American cities, Philadelphia’s fortunes fell
with the decline of industrial manufacturing after World War II.
Exacerbated by Federal highway development and Federal housing
policies that encouraged new development outside the city, as well
as racial and political unrest inside the city, large areas of
Philadelphia’s Center City and surrounding neighborhoods fell into
disrepair. In addition, narrow lots crowded with small, aging
townhouses (including Philadelphia’s distinctively tiny three-story
“Trinity” townhouses with one room per floor) became less attractive
to Philadelphians than larger houses in outlying suburbs.
Philadelphia has consistently lost residents since 1950. Between
1950 and 1990 the city lost over 400,000 residents. In the 1990s
alone another 4.3% of the population left, many headed for nearby
areas, including Montgomery County.
The city has razed many of its unsafe abandoned buildings leaving
vacant lots, while others remain standing. Today Philadelphia has
the highest per capita vacancy rate in the country. As of the 2000
census, almost half (45%) of the residential street segments in
Philadelphia contained some kind of abandoned property and more than
one third (36%) contained at least one vacant residential structure,
totaling approximately 26,000 vacant residential structures and
nearly 3,000 vacant commercial and industrial structures—more than
40,000 vacant parcels to date.
Renaissance
Recently Philadelphia has experienced regeneration in and around
Center City, as well as redevelopment in outlying areas of
Philadelphia, including parts of Manayunk, Germantown, and East
Falls. This renaissance, however, has not reached every
neighborhood. Pockets of urban blight remain throughout the city,
particularly in the ring of neighborhoods around the city center,
including North Philadelphia, Kensington, Parkside, Grays Ferry,
Point Breeze, and others. Recent initiatives to revitalize
Philadelphia include the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s
Philadelphia Green project to “clean and green” vacant lots
throughout the city, and the City of Philadelphia’s Neighborhood
Transformation Initiative (NTI), an unprecedented effort by the City
of Philadelphia to counter the history of decline in Philadelphia
and revitalize Philadelphia’s neighborhoods.
Site & Criteria
Program Description - Philadelphia needs a compelling long-term
vision for developing its vacant lots, a strategy that envisions how
vacancy in Philadelphia can be changed from an obstacle (vacancy as
absence) to an asset (vacancy as possibility).
The jury will seek out powerful, transforming ideas with the
potential for further development and realization, ideas that are
specific enough to take advantage of Philadelphia’s unique
attributes yet broad enough to be applied to neighborhoods
throughout the city.The Urban Voids competition, an idea generating
process, is the second phase of Philadelphia LANDvisions. For this
phase of the competition, entrants are free to suggest program
elements that best express their idea and are in keeping with the
competition aims (specific program elements will be developed in the
next phase). Community-generated ideas can be found in the results
of Phase I: Our Voices, Our Future: A Community Visioning Process at
landvisions.org.
Site Description - The site comprises the city of
Philadelphia. Design proposals should address the issue of vacancy
at a citywide scale, referencing Philadelphia’s waterways, soils,
and geology, as well as the city’s physical adjacencies. Lots could
include former industrial (“brownfield”) sites—so entries should
acknowledge issues of toxicity and urban waste—as well as sites that
have been treated transitionally through cleaning and greening.
Finalists working in the next phase of the competition will focus
on specific locations in particular neighborhoods to further develop
their proposals.
Evaluation Criteria
The jury will look for:
• A clear, compelling idea
• A concept with clear potential for realization
• An approach that takes advantage of Philadelphia’s natural and
urban context
Rules
Entries which do not meet the following criteria will be
disqualified and will not be viewed by the jury.
Eligibility
The competition sponsors encourage entrants to work in teams,
although individuals may also enter. At least one primary registrant
must be a graduate of one of the following degree programs:
Accredited professional architecture program
Accredited professional landscape architecture program
Accredited professional urban planning or urban design program
OR
If no primary registrant is a graduate of one of the above programs,
the team must include an advisor (faculty member or practicing
professional) who is a graduate of one of the above degree programs.
The competition organizers encourage students, members of
community groups, and others interested in these issues to enter the
competition. Connections to potential professional advisors can be
found through organizations such as the Community Design
Collaborative in Philadelphia, your local AIA chapter, your local
ASLA chapter, or your local APA/AICP chapter.
Team members fall into three possible categories: primary
registrants (one of whom will be the contact), advisors, and
consultants. Awards will be given to primary registrants, but all
team members will be acknowledged in publications and exhibitions.
Primary Registrants: The main team members, responsible for
the design.
Advisor: Advisors may be faculty and/or practicing professionals who
are graduates of one of the accredited programs listed above.
Advisors provide technical and design advice to their team.
Consultant(s): Consultants are optional team members who
provide consultation or assistance to the primary registrants (for
example rendering assistance or engineering advice), but are not
responsible for the design.
To better formulate creative solutions to the multi-faceted issue of
vacancy in Philadelphia, the competition sponsors encourage
multidisciplinary teams. Members could include geographers,
botanists, sculptors, sociologists, engineers, ecologists,
zoologists, geologists, historians, agronomists, photographers,
horticulturists, folklorists, gardeners, hydrologists, historians,
artists, etc.
The competition is open to all individuals, teams, and firms from
around the world with the following exceptions and qualifications:
• The trustees and employees (and immediate family members of the
trustees and employees) of Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public
Architecture, the City Parks
Association of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society,
the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, and the Reinvestment Fund
Inc. are not eligible to enter as primary registrants, advisors, or
consultants.
• Only one entry per registration will be accepted. Entrants who
wish to submit more than one project must register for each scheme
they intend to enter by the registration deadline.
The competition is anonymous and the jury will not be informed of
any aspect of the authorship of any submission.
Registration
Entrants are required to register for the competition prior to
submitting their entries. Registration is $150 USD (registration is
$180 USD after 5:00 pm October 7). Registration will be available
until 5:00 pm Monday November 14. Registered entrants will receive
access to the password protected Download Images page.
This fee includes registration fee in addition to high-quality
printing, mounting, and lamination of submitted digital boards. To
ensure fair evaluation of all boards, to eliminate shipping
damage,and to eliminate printing and postage fees for entrants, all
entrants must submit digital files. Van Alen Institute will be
responsible for printing, mounting, and laminating all submitted
boards. All files will be professionally printed as high-quality
(200 dpi) prints, laminated, and mounted on 1/4" Gator board.
Also note that there is no additional print information—all
information is available online.
Entrants can only register online, and can pay by credit or debit
card via a secure system. Upon completion of online registration and
payment, entrants will receive their registration confirmation and
registration ID number, as well as access to downloadable images.
All payments are final. The competition will not be able to offer
refunds for registrants who do not submit an entry.
Late Registration
After 5:00 pm Friday October 7, 2005 the registration fee will be
increased to $180 USD.
Submission requirements
Deadline: All submissions must be received online no later than 5:00
pm Friday January 6, 2006.
Submissions may NOT be delivered in person or by mail. See below for
format requirements.
Late Submissions: Submissions uploaded after 5:00 pm on Friday,
January 6, 2005 will be considered late entries and will be deleted
without being viewed.
Confirmation: Entrants will receive an automatic email
confirmation upon receipt of both registration and payment.
Submission Format Requirements
Please read all submission requirements carefully. Files that do not
meet the requirements will be rejected. No resubmissions will be
allowed after the deadline has passed. If you have any questions,
you may submit them online until 5pm November 14, 2005. Answers will
be posted on this website.
Anonymity: The submission shall have no name or mark that
could serve as a means of identifying the project, other than the
registration number, which entrants will receive by email after
completing the registration process (including payment).
Text: A text statement of no more than 250 words explaining the
project’s concept, design intent, and phasing should be included on
board A, as well as in a separate Microsoft Word compatible (.doc)
file.
Drawings: Plans, sections, and perspective views are
suggested, but the scale of each is left up to the entrants.
Additional drawings may be included if they will further explain
your project.
Each team shall submit two boards, A and B, explaining their
project. Board A must include a text statement of no more than 250
words on the board itself (the same text should be saved as a
Microsoft Word compatible file). The boards must be uploaded to the
competition website in both of the following formats:
Two 30” x 40” PDF files, 200 dpi, 5MB maximum size for each file
(primary files for printing boards) Two 600 x 800 pixel JPEG files,
72 dpi, 150K maximum size for each file (web-ready files for online
exhibition)
In addition, the following two files are also required:
One 100 x 100 pixel JPEG file, 72 dpi, 20K max size (image detail of
your choice from either board for online thumbnail)
One Microsoft Word compatible (.doc) file containing the same
project description text (250 words or less) as the first board
All files must be in LANDSCAPE format (long side horizontal,
short side vertical). All files must be named with the registration
number you received when you submitted your registration, followed
by an underscore and 01, 02, etc. For example, the files for
registrant 0000 would be called:
Board A: 0000_A.pdf (large file), 0000_A.jpg (small file for web)
Board B: 0000_B.pdf (large file), 0000_B.jpg (small file for web)
Other: 0000_thumb.jpg, 0000.doc
Each PDF file must include the entrant’s registration number.
For PDF files, graphics should be set to 200 dpi/ppi. If printing to
PDF from Illustrator, for example, choose Effect Document
Raster Effects Settings
Resolution Other: 200 ppi. Note
that to meet the file size requirements you may have to adjust your
PDF software compression settings.
Layout: Two 30” x 40” landscape boards are required. Each
board must include the entrant’s registration number in the upper
right hand corner in either 36 point plain black text on a white
background or 36 point plain white text on a black background.
Board A must include the project description text (the same text
will also be submitted separately as a Microsoft Word compatible
.doc file), a small diagram, plan, or sketch to place the project in
context, and a single large image that conveys the intent of the
project. The suggested layout for this board is: large image on the
right, text at the bottom of an 8” column on the left, and an
overview, sketch, or diagram in the top of the 8” column on the left
Board B should contain whatever additional drawings, diagrams, or
sketches are necessary to further explain the project.
Rights
Finalists: in the first phase of the competition, up to five
finalist teams will receive $5,000 each to continue on to the next
phase of the competition, Reconnecting the Lots.
Public Exhibition and Copyright: Van Alen Institute and the CPA
shall retain ownership of all prize-winning design submissions. Van
Alen Institute plans to hold both an online and a gallery exhibition
of work submitted in the competition following the jury. In entering
the design competition, entrants grant Van Alen Institute and the
City Parks Association unrestricted license to exercise the
entrants’ rights regarding their design submissions, including, but
not limited to, reproduction, preparation of derivative works,
distribution of copies of the design submission, and the right to
authorize such use by others.
Announcement, Displays, and Publication of Results: When entering
the competition, the registrant and all team members recognize the
competition’s program as the intellectual property of Van Alen
Institute and City Parks Association and agree to credit the two
organizations by name in any subsequent exhibition or publication of
the project. Entrants will be credited on all online and print
material published by the organizers of the competition.
Awards
In the first phase of the competition, up to five finalist teams
will receive $5,000 each and the
opportunity to continue on to the second phase.
FAQ
Questions must be submitted before 5:00 pm Monday November 14, 2005.
Answers will be posted on the Frequently Asked Questions page. We
regret that we cannot reply individually.
Please check that your question is not already answered before
submitting.
Registration
Registration will be available online beginning Wednesday September
7, 2005.
Registration ends Monday November 14, 2005.
The registration fee is $150 USD (late registration, after 5:00 pm
Friday October 7, 2005, is $180 USD). The registration fee includes
high-quality printing, mounting, and lamination of submitted digital
boards.
Jury
The jury will include:
Diana Balmori - Landscape architect Principal, Balmori
Associates
James Corner - Founder and Director, Field Operations Chair
and Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional
Planning, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Design
Jerold Kayden - Professor, Co-Chair, and Program Director,
GSD Department of Urban Planning
Mary Miss - Sculptor, photographer, and environmental artist
Anne Spirn - Professor of Landscape Architecture, MIT
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Cathy Weiss - Executive Director, Claneil Foundation Bios and
additional jurors will be announced soon.
Project Team
Project Sponsor
City Parks Association of Philadelphia
City Parks Association stimulates visionary thinking about natural
resources and open space in the urban community. From its founding
in 1888, City Parks Association has encouraged the establishment and
maintenance of public parks and open spaces in the city of
Philadelphia.
City Parks’ programs foster ongoing dialogue and collaborative
action among people committed to the stewardship of our city’s
natural resources.
www.cityparksphila.org
Project Partners
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is a not-for-profit
membership organization founded in 1827 to motivate people to
improve the quality of life and create a sense of community through
horticulture. Programs of the PHS include the annual Philadelphia
Flower Show, the Philadelphia Green program, and the McLean Library.
www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
Pennsylvania Environmental Council
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council improves quality of life
for all Pennsylvanians by enhancing the Commonwealth's natural and
built environments by integrating advocacy, education and
implementation of community and regional action projects. The
Council values reasoned and long-term approaches that include the
interests of all stakeholders to accomplish its goals.
www.pecpa.org
The Reinvestment Fund
The Reinvestment Fund Inc. builds wealth and opportunity for
low-wealth communities and lowand moderate-income individuals
through the promotion of socially and environmentally responsible
development. TRF makes loans, equity investments, and grants to
affordable housing, small business, community services, commercial
real estate, workforce development, and energy conservation
projects; provides relevant and high quality research, information
and policy ideas to government, nonprofit institutions, and private
sector partners; and builds public and private partnerships and
systems that connect low-wealth people and places with opportunity,
information, and resources.
www.trfund.com
Competition Advisor
(Development & Management)
Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture
Van Alen Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to
improving design in the public realm through a program of
exhibitions, competitions, publications, workshops, and forums, and
is an advocate for active and accessible waterfronts. Founded in
1894 as the Society of Beaux-Arts
Architects, the Institute was renamed in 1996 after William Van
Alen, the architect of the Chrysler Building and its largest
benefactor, and reorganized to focus on the public realm. Based in
New York, the Institute’s projects initiate interdisciplinary and
international collaborations between practitioners, policymakers,
students, educators, and community leaders.
www.vanalen.org
Project Funding
The project team would like to thank the following organizations for
supporting this project:
The City of Philadelphia Office of Housing and Community Development
The Claneil Foundation
The National Endowment for the Arts
The Samuel S. Fels Fund
Competition Credits
Competition Manager: Jonathan Cohen-Litant, Van Alen Institute
Website Design: Jonathan Cohen-Litant, Kirsten Hively, and Marcus
Woollen, Van Alen
Institute; Doug Meehan, CPA
Aerial Photography: Jonathan Cohen-Litant
Maps: Vicky Tam, Cartographic Modeling Laboratory, University of
Pennsylvania
Additional Photography: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; Students
from Gideon Elementary
School and Vare Middle School in Philadelphia, under the direction
of Tory Read
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Editor : Bengi Demirkan - L.A.- University of Greenwich/LONDON
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