Canopy Social Conditions:
Covered raised bed garden (above). Pervious, solar canopies will provide shade for gardening, but will still allow enough sun for gardening. Lots will be selected based on neighborhood interest. This condition does not require that any side be adjacent an existing building as shown. This option could be combined with an impervious canopy and temporary wall structure to create a seasonal greenhouse.
Covered amphitheater, training center (above). Where permissible, vacant lots can be transformed into community amphitheaters where neighbors can gather for movies, community plays, or training/workshops focussing on rebuilding the community. This option shows an impervious solar collecting fabric canopy draining into a box gutter with rain leaders on the right hand side. Another option would be a structural canopy with rain leaders on the left, draining into a rain cistern built into the amphitheater seating. This option is best suited for sites with 2 vacant lots.
Covered garden/park (above). Some spaces will be a combination of garden and play spaces. In this option, the terraced garden can also be developed to include benches for parents, or guardians of playing children. Recycled car tires, and other materials can be used to create play structures that promote creative play. The roof can be a combination of fabric, or lightweight structures. This option would work best when sited next to a minimum of one existing structure.
Covered Outdoor Dining (above). Outdoor seating spaces can be created for use by neighborhood restaurants and cafes, or by private residents for neighborhood cookouts, or potlucks. The structure of the canopy can be light weight with impervious fabric to provide shade and shelter from rain while collecting energy for use directly by the eating establishment. stormwater collected could be used by the restaurants/cafe’s dishwasher, or toilet facilities.
Front Porch (above). Where existing homes have lost their porch, or where a porch was never present, the Solar Porch Roof will be installed. The SRP will provide shade and create a space for social interaction between neighbors. In some situations, the front porch can wrap around onto the side of the house, creating a place where adults can sit to watch over the neighborhood. These side porches will also allow for possible side wall windows, bringing additional light into the typically narrow Philadelphia row home.
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Neil- some good progress.
A couple items – the scale of these new social spaces are all quite similar – will you be expanding these conditions to show the varying scale of the social condition at various canopy types – porch vs. infill vs. bar vs. field?
The top sketch shows structure, the others do not. I would either show structure or not…if its only about the social (program) conditions that these canopies can produce, then focus on the programs and scales of interactions below.
These sketches have an “equal-ness” – brick walls, steps, play furniture, ground are all “rendered” equally. I would suggest even taking away some of these material conditions to focus on the social intereractions and canopy forms/varying shade levels. Otherwise, it is difficult to pinpoint what is most important without a long supporting description.
If these diagrams are supposed to focus on “social energy” – the people, which produce the social interaction, are filled dark – so they don’t jump off the page. I would suggest enlivening them will a brighter fill color – orange, red, etc.?
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