What is your Big Idea for Philadelphia?
Free Space / City Garden: A New City Center for the People of Philadelphia
What’s next for Philly? I believe we need a new city center. A grand unprogrammed building in the middle of the city, a framework for events as well as for everyday gathering. It would be a place open to everyone and everything. A place to bring Philadelphians together through shared activities and positive atmospheres – a new city center for the people.
Together with this notion of an adaptable great hall, I simultaneously envision this new city center as a lush and beautiful garden. Full of plants both inside and out, this new civic space would create room for life and celebrate growth.
The central structure is intended to be a sustainable 100-year building. The project includes a solar collecting roof, super-insulated envelope, radiant heating, operable facade, natural daylighting, calculated roof overhangs, stormwater swales, and responsible plant selections.
Beyond this sense of environmental sustainability lies a further goal – sustaining the essence of the city as a place for people; a place to meet new friends, to liberalize one’s viewpoints, and to come together through common experiences. At the heart of our city, I believe we should make a free space for us all.
What’s next for Philly? I believe we need a new city center. A grand unprogrammed building in the middle of the city, a framework for events as well as for everyday gathering. It would be a place open to everyone and everything. A place to bring Philadelphians together through shared activities and positive atmospheres – a new city center for the people.
Together with this notion of an adaptable great hall, I simultaneously envision this new city center as a lush and beautiful garden. Full of plants both inside and out, this new civic space would create room for life and celebrate growth.
The central structure is intended to be a sustainable 100-year building. The project includes a solar collecting roof, super-insulated envelope, radiant heating, operable facade, natural daylighting, calculated roof overhangs, stormwater swales, and responsible plant selections.
Beyond this sense of environmental sustainability lies a further goal – sustaining the essence of the city as a place for people; a place to meet new friends, to liberalize one’s viewpoints, and to come together through common experiences. At the heart of our city, I believe we should make a free space for us all.
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