ReVibe the Edge
Development Diagram
The site is close by to the highly developed Euclid Avenue and adjacent to the developing 55th st.
Network Diagram
Elevated railroad divides the site into two parts.
Vacant Area Diagram
There are high dense vacancies and abandoned factory buildings in and around the site.
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The Site
73,5 Acre area is mostly consist of vacant lots and abandoned factories. A railroad goes through the site and divide it into 2 disconnected areas. The site adjacent to E 55th street and close by one of the highly dense avenue. East side trail project was proposed in order to connect the region to the lake shore. The site is surrounded by residential, industrial and commercial areas. The site consist of abandoned factories, vacant lots, social organizations and privately owned houses. East side of the vacant areas used to be factories. The site provides public spaces since the it is going to be used mostly by closed by residents. Soil remediation is going to apply in demolished industrial locations. Current site problems are: lack of open spaces/parks, polluted vacant areas and abandoned factories, high crime rate, illegal dumping, high health problems, negative impact of junkyards to adjacent developments, lack of quality retail, food desert, marginalized community since redlining, high unemployment rate, high poverty rate
RENOVATED FACTORIES I FOOD HUB I CAMPUS I URBAN FOREST I RESIDENTIALS I RECREATIONAL AREA
Former Cleveland Railway Substation renovated into workstation for local businesses and offices. Former Westinghouse Factory renovated into open studio for art works and food hub of food courts and grocery shops serving adjacent residential areas. Open green plaza for food hub visitors providing panoramic view of renovated post-industrial historic sites. Existing vocational service buildings extended into vocational campus that exist of 6 schools, pavilion and a amphitheater. Former Wiese Plumbing and Heating Service building renovated into the office for the forest maintenance and research facility. Short term installation of container structures in response to urgent needs of affordable housing for vocational campus students and people who are living below the poverty line.
Phytoremediation
There are organic and inorganic pollutants in the soil due to industrial factories which were working for decades. Phytoremediation is applied as a forest (13.3 acre) and a bioswale (2.9 acre). Plants are chosen according to their ability of "healing the soil".
Pedestrian friends roads are proposed. The material of site roads is brick in order to slow down car circulation. Bike lanes are located both sides of the road. Sidewalks are extended and isolated from the road either with greenbelt or a bioswale green infrastructure which one of phytoremediation strategies.