Park City / Once you park, you are in the park
Location： Tustin, USA
Designer：Jimmy Chen, Calvin Lee, Francisco Benitez, Devon Patterson-Zeek
Year： 2018 Urban Design Studio (Cal Poly Pomona)
Instructor： Patricia Smith & Prof. Rennie Tang
Concept
Project Location: Tustin, CA.
The area is about 375 acres.
Entire site was envisioned as a park.
Connect vehicle commuters with the outer region.
Minimizing the amount of non-automobile roads
maximizing the human power circulation, connecting with the transit Tustin station.
Mix-used area is placed near the transit Tustin station.
Recreation activities are located on the south west portion
During the research phase of our project we found that 82% of people in the city of Tustin drive alone to work and only 18% of people either carpool or use public transit. For commuting needs, dependence on vehicles in urban areas creates many challenges from traffic to pollution, and health issues. To address these issues, we put human-powered movement on an equal footing with automobiles.
The first step toward designing Park City was to envision our entire district as a park: a place in which the built environment would exist in cohesion with the way one experiences a public park. Primary circulation happens in the form of bicycling, walking and other forms of human-powered movement. The project design allows everyone to have a car -at least for now- but once they park it in Park City they don’t need it anymore. The center piece of each block is the parking tower. Flexibility is a key aspect of the project design; the parking structures are designed to allow for adaptive re-use to respond to changing car parking needs in the future. Buildings are designed flexibly to accommodate a range of residential and non-residential uses, resulting in a mixed-use city in which all uses are within walkable distance of one another. The Tustin Hangar #2 is adapted for re-use as an adventure sports facility. The circulation system within Park City includes a longitudinal connector between Park City and the Tustin Transit Station that allows people to experience the landscape as they commute. Along two distinctly different paths: one for human-powered motion including walking, bicycles, skating, roller blade skating, etc. and one for otherwise powered vehicles like electric unicycles, golf cars, electric scooters, etc.
Cars in, People Out !
Cars in
People Out
Urban Plaza
Community Garden
Courtyard
Retail
Office
Residential
Evolution of The Parking Structure
NOW
FUTURE
In order to minimize the car use in this area, we set a parking tower in the center of each block. When you get to Park City, you just need to find a parking tower and park your car, then you don’t need it anymore. Flexibility is an important part of our design. In the future, when parking needs reduce in this area, these parking towers are allow to reuse by other function. Meanwhile, we set a gym on the top of the parking tower to encourage people do exercise.
Master Plan
Program
Road Types
Service the community
Service Mixed-Use
Service the city
New Tustin Ranch Rd.
We classification the road system to several layers. The first layer of road is surround the parking tower to service the community. It’s a one-way road with many stop for lyft or uber. The second layer is to connect the road that service every community. These roads only have one entrance and one exit to goes in and out the mixed-use area. The third layer is beside the Linear park to service the entire Park city. A street car system is set on this layer. The last layer is the New Tustin Ranch Road, the biggest road in this area. It cut our city to two side, one is mixed-use, another is recreation activities.
OpenSpace
Land Bridge
The Great Lawn
Park Between Blocks
Shaded Boulevard
Community Garden
Because we envision the entire site as a park, all of the circulation for people is a great open space. We still classification the open space to several layers. Start from community, the first layer of open space is in the community, there will have some small park and community garden between the buildings. The second layer is the park between the block, people slow down then get into the block here. It can also be a good place for picnic or some activities. The third layer is the Shaded Boulevard that connect the border and the Linear Park, provide a directly way to go through the mixed-use area. The last layer is the Linear park that connect the Tustin Transit Station and the two hangars. We divide the Linear park to several part. The north of Linear park is near the buildings, so we set some plaza here to connect the park and community. When you go into Linear Park, the great lawn and the playground is set in here too. In this layer, included a important part in our design – The Land Bridge. This bridge across the New Tustin Ranch Road to let the human-power circulation above the traffic. The bridge near the mixed-use area connect to a auditorium and the other side connect to a grass hill to let people lay down. When you stand on the bridge, you can have a great view of the recreation activities area that included Adventure Sport Facility, skate park, garden and the hub with some store.
