madison homeless shelter community meeting presentation (november 21, 2013)

Elevating the Quality of Life in the District


Madison Shelter Landscape and Exterior Restoration 35%

Madison School, 1900


landscape

Design objectives: Create a pleasant exterior space for shelter

users • Secure feeling

• Some connection to street for security

• Accessible to mobility-impaired

• Durable and low maintenance

Maintain existing levels of site security (fencing) with more residential-appropriate fencing

Be a good neighbor: good design makes good neighbors


landscape

Sustainability objectives

Keep run-off on site (LID)

Use native plants:

for hardiness and lower maintenance once established. Native

plants function much like a natural system, with diverse plants

providing food and shelter for a host of birds, butterflies and

beneficial insects. Landscaping with native plants is

recommended for Chesapeake Bay health

Minimize light pollution


Historic Preservation Objectives Landscape: • Use forms and materials consistent with the building and its time;

appropriate for the Capitol Hill Historic District

Building: Improve historic integrity of the building:

• Remove paint from pressed brick if possible

• Repoint entire building, repairing cracks etc. at the same time

• Repaint common brick to “brick color”

• Paint trim cream or buff color per its original color.

• Restore windows

• Provide sensitive security:

• “L’Enfant plan” basement security

• Screen security at first and second floors

• Remove building-mounted security lighting

• Improve entrances: make more appropriate to historic building

• Improve canopy/ies


Other program needs (health/safety/welfare)

• Replace retaining wall

• Improve structural stability of stair areaways

• Upgrade guard and hand railings at stair area ways.


landscape image

Urban forest in Washington, DC

Context:

Late 19th c. school building

in Capitol Hill Historic District


Washington, DC • The L’Enfant plan: a grid with

superimposed Baroque diagonals

• The grid/diagonal pattern pulled apart,

the natural showing through the “made”

• The grid/diagonal pattern interrupted to

its south at a major element: the Rivers


Use of green screen fencing provides a degree of transparency from the street while also providing security, incorporating additional vegetation, and being more residential.

Landscape: Design responses

Secure feeling Some connection to street for security

Maintain existing levels of site security

(fencing) with more residential-

appropriate fencing


Landscape: Design responses

Accessible to mobility-impaired

Accessible entrance to yard area at west end. 1:20 sloping sidewalk avoids railings etc. required for a 1:12 ramp. All surfaces in yard will have maximum cross slope of 1:50.


Landscape: Sustainability response Minimize impervious areas/ maximize site permeability LID: infiltrate, evapotranspire and reuse stormwater Decentralized small areas to treat runoff close to where created Goal: retain first ½” of rain fall on site

Extensive use of 30” spaced pavers for “patio” spaces


Impervious Areas


Pervious Paving


Landscape: Sustainability

response Keep as much run-off on site as

possible Minimize impervious areas/ maximize

site permeability

Maximize use of trees for storm water

management

(both on site and street trees)


Landscape:

Sustainability

response Keep as much run-off

on site as possible

Minimize impervious

areas/ maximize site

permeability

Maximize use of trees

(both site and street)

for storm water

management

Red circles indicate new proposed trees


landscape image: Urban forest

Two large shade trees (one Maple and one American Elm)

with densely planted understory trees (Redbuds)

these Kousas are 8’ apart


Trees


Landscape: Sustainability response

Keep as much run-off on site as possible

Divert as much roof water from combined sewer as

possible, using water feature

Proposed landscape drawing

“Decorative trench drains” from two of the roof downspouts


Planted Areas


Landscape: Sustainability response

Use native plants “New American Landscape”

Plant list Eastern Redbud Single Trunk

Willow Oak American Elm

Butterfly Milkweed

Tangerine Beauty Cross Vine

Blue Mist Fothergilla

Oakleaf Hydrangea Creeping St. Johns Wort

St. Johns Wort

Virginia Sweetspire

Muhly

Summersweet Grow-Low Fragrant Sumac


Landscape: Sustainability responses:

Minimize light pollution

• Use a number of smallish

(about 8’ tall) pole lights on site

• Use fixtures that direct light down instead of up or flooding providing a more pleasant quality of light than the typical security light

• Multiple fixtures provide

fixture backup If one goes out you don’t lose all the light security


Lighting


Landscape Historic Preservation Responses:

Materials:

• Concrete for walking surfaces is one of the

traditional paving materials used on Capitol

Hill.

• Sidewalk strategies to enhance permeability

as already developed and implemented on

Capitol Hill

• Bluestone is a traditional public space

material

Use forms and materials consistent with the building and its time; appropriate for the Capitol Hill Historic District or if an element is not

original to the building, it should be of its time


Other program needs

(health/safety/welfare)

• Replace retaining wall

• Improve structural stability of

stair areaways

• Upgrade guard and hand

railings at stair area ways.


Building: Historic Preservation objectives

Improve historic integrity of the building: • Remove paint from pressed brick if possible

• Repaint common brick to “brick color”

• Paint trim cream or buff color per its original color.

• Restore windows

• Provide security sensitively

• Remove building-mounted security lighting


Building: Historic

Preservation objectives

Improve entrances: make

more appropriate to historic

building


Building: Historic Preservation objectives

Improve historic integrity

of building:

• Improve canopy/ies


Building: Historic

Preservation objectives

Possibly restore roof cresting: (budget

dependent)


Building: Provide security sensitively

• Add security screens to first and second floor windows that look like

insect screens (on Madison only the bottom half of window) • Add window grilles at basement level only to regularize the facade

McKinley HS


Building: Existing West Facade


Building: Existing North Facade


Building: Proposed West Facade

Trees are shown at 5-10 years after planting


Building: Proposed North Facade

Trees are shown at 5-10 years after planting


Next Steps • Historic Preservation Office reviews throughout design

process

• Submission of Agency and Community Comments to architrave

• 65 % Design Development Community Review Meeting – January 2014

• 100% Construction Documents Community Review Meeting – March 2014

• DCRA and Other Regulatory Agency Permitting Process for Construction Documents


Design Team

• architrave p.c. architects -Architect

• AMT – Landscape Design and Civil Engineers

• Robert Silman & Associates – Structural Engineers

• JVP Engineers – Electrical Engineering

• Froehling and Robertson – Geotechnical and Hazardous Materials

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