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INTERACTIVE LIVING STREET

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Maple Swamp Ash Sedge Salt Springs Cedar Maple Cedar Oak Salt Springs Ash Onondaga Lake Ash Oak
Erie Canal To Syracuse University Founded 1870 Jefferson Park (Future Armory Square) Freight Transfer Station Interstate Railroad embankment

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

“Berlin Wall” West Street Housing superblocks

Swamp Onondaga Creek Ash

Rail Washington Station

Oak Beech Oak Oak Limestone

Cedar

Future Wyoming Street

Cedar

Salt Springs Maple

Oak

1825 - 1853
- Onondoga Creek is dammed to power saw and grist mills - Erie Canal is built - Onondoga Lake level lowers by 2 feet - Expansion of fields of solar vats
Industrial Development

1854 - 1911
- Walton’s Mill Pond filled in to combat malaria epidemic - North-South Railroad to Binghamton - Expanded industries - Near West Side is an established working class neighborhood - Onondoga Creek is polluted by sewage discharge - Population booms from 50,000 in 1880 to 200,000 in 1930
Expanded Industries and Mixed Use

1912 - 1953
- Salt marshes are buried under Solvay’s industrial waste - Erie Canal is filled in - Companies and industries leave or close the area, and salt production ends - Unemployment and poverty concentration is high due to closed factories - Embankment elevates Delware and Lackawanna Railroad - Onondoga creek is reshaped in concrete channel
Industrial Abandon

1954 - 1970
- Construction of interstate infrastructure - West street becomes a multi-lane arterial - Urban renewals create housing superblocks

1793
- The Onondoga Nation is known as “People of the Hills” - Onondoga Reservation is plaited on 250 acres - Forest cutting begins to fuel evaporation of salt brine

SITE with overlay of 1830s Saltworks

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SOCIAL CAPITAL

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1848 LIMESTONE, SALT, & the “YELLOW FELLOW”
About 399 million years ago, the land now occupied by Syracuse was covered by a salty sea. The sea evaporated, leaving behind salt and limestone-- which emerged as major resources in the 19th century. The project reengages histories that contributed to form the site, as a means of building a robust place-related identity going forward. A StoryCorps Porch will enable residents to contribute to further these histories. Traces of the Saltworks -- the first industry to occupy the site- provide a larger grain within which to inscribe and integrate new elements and spaces, informing their design language, allowing modulation in relation to diverse site conditions. Salt sheds are reinterpreted as programmatic mobile devices. (See also “Building Bicycle Culture” at left.) Other historical events contributed to the formation of site and neighborhood in the 20th century, producing its disconnection from Onondaga Creek and downtown (identified by residents as the ‘Berlin Wall’), its many vacant lots, and abundance of impermeable surface. To achieve continuity in support of physical activity, our proposal exceeds the target area to reach Onondaga Creek. The Vacant Lots-Urban Forestry component of the project recalls the once forested condition of land now occupied by city.

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PHYSICAL INTERVENTIONS

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Ecological Model of Public Health
ROOMS
ART GARDEN BIKE COOP COMMUNITY GARDEN FARMER’S MARKET SALT ROOF STORAGE SKATE PARK SNOW FORT FITNESS LIGHTING

PORCHES
KIOSKS BIKE RACK DECKING FLEXIBLE BOUNDARY LENDING LIBRARY KIOSK PLAY POD RAIN GARDEN SHELTER SEATING RUNNEL

TRAILS
OUTCROPPINGS BIO FILTER CURB EXTENSION HEATED TRAIL SIGNAGE BOLLARDS

URBAN FOREST
STRATEGIC PLANTING NURSERY FOREST PORCH RESIDENTIAL FOREST WETLAND TRAIL

The Ecological Model is a comprehensive health promotion model concerned with ways in which environment, behavior, and policy help individuals make healthy choices in their daily lives. The core belief of the model is that human behavior does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, human behavior is a complex interaction between individuals, their families, their communities, their spaces, and the society in which they live.

Design Goals
CONNECTIVE COORIDOR HUB

FARMERS’ MARKET

CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

BIOFILTERS
THIS COLUMN SHOWS JUST SOME OF THE MANY ORGANIZATIONS AND INITIATIVES ALREADY PRESENT’ ON WYOMING STREET, WHO WILL BE INTEGRAL TO THE PROCESSES OF REALIZATION AND FUTURE OF MOVEMENT OF MAIN

RUNNELS

DEMONSTRATION GARDENS

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Activating Concept: IT’S IN THE MIX
The proposal envisions Wyoming Street as an interwoven field of activity: cultural destination, neighborhood center, and ecological landscape: a low-speed shared street, along which flexible project elements and spaces activate existing conditions to foster interrelationship from one end of street to other; from one end of neighborhood to other; between neighborhood and context. Project elements, including multifunctional outdoor program spaces and a path infused with opportunities for experience and activity weave together neighborhood, city, landscape, and art, for this historical neighborhood with a future-focused point of view -- a playful environment where you can get online.

RAINWATER COLLECTION

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS

ADVANCING HEALTH THROUGH MOVEMENT ON MAIN
The unique opportunities and challenges posed by this project may underscore the role of public health in recasting cities as sustainable environments. Our approach, representing a fine-grained collaboration between design and public health professionals, focuses on design strategies for optimizing health through leveraging the understanding of communities, to shape that environment. HOW a community such as the SALT District makes space and place through design decisions represents a critical opportunity for responding to its specific health needs. Key considerations for a health outcomes-based design approach: • What are health & related characteristics, including health needs, of the community? • How can design leverage opportunities to promote health/advance health outcomes? Because of its embedded outcomes-based framework, this project can inform and advance Overarching Goals of Healthy People 2020, and can monitor its contributions through triangulating with existing national and local data sets.

WALKING TRAIL

BIKE LANE

BIKE SHARE

COURT GAMES

PLYGROUND

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” M. Jacobs, NWSI

RECREATION MOVEMENT

ICE SKATING

Project PROCESSES
The proposal communicates a vision and framework for human health and environmental stewardship to a broad community through productive strategies, in an interactive design and implementation process. This framework will enable crosspollination among constituencies invested in the site: will value these diverse investments and integrally engage frameworks already in place, to leverage their capacity to contribute to shared project goals, by pursuing co-benefits and building synergies, in order to maximize the role design can play. An operative platform for working across scales leverages the varying reach of Wyoming Street organizations, to contribute to the project goals: e.g. recognizing that WCNY operates at scale of 19 counties, while co-programming with the Red House—can better enable the Wyoming Street project to contribute to strengthen Central New York’s urban hub. Building the Project_Building Community Processes of design and implementation provide opportunities for community building, integrating artists and local fabricators. We will collaborate with NWSI and partner organizations to formulate means of involving youth and community in project implementation as well as design phases, to create amazing spaces, contribute to social enterprise and neighborhood economy, strengthen ties, and build stewardship. We hope to be able, through SALT Quarters, to collaborate with artists to enable community/youth involvement in development and implementation of targeted project elements.

PORCH

COMMUNITY SPACES

OUTDOOR ROOM

ART MAKING

PERFORMING

SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY

BARBECUING

CONNECTIVE CORRIDOR HUB

CURB CUTTING

LIGHTING

HIGH TREE CANOPY

RADIANT TRAIL

To build Bicycle Culture, we look to the 1890s, when Syracuse was known as the “bicycle hub of the world.”

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS

SAFETY COMFORT ENGAGEMENT

LENDING LIBRARY

WAYFINDING

URBAN FORESTORY

CREEK ECOLOGY

ONONDAGA TRAIL

SUPERBLOCK OPENING

FLOWS

TRANSIT KNUCKLE

TRANSIT MODES

Physical Environment
The physical environment encompasses factors such as open space and access to nature, access to recreational facilities, the aesthetic or perceived qualities of these facilities, and community design issues related to density, land use, and connectivity. Strategies at this level target specific design elements that can support the goals and outcomes of interest.
Lincoln Building

Design Interventions
history display PEACE Peace garden

SALTplace
sports/performance/greenmarket mound with sitting steps ‘wave’ screen play loop fitness circuits skate park bike loft
Hillside Children’s Center

SALT HQ

community porch

Gallery

bbq/ picnic

mini art park

demonstration garden

Geddes Houses garden space

light loop patchup studio tully outcrop rain curtain

light loop

Geddes Houses garden space

light loop

light loop

TRAILHEAD

Radiant Trail

community porch

RADIANTTRAIL

CC bus stop

St Joseph’s Wellness Center
neighborhoo d navigator porch

Healing garden

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RADIANTTRAIL

Seymour School Playground

Seymour School

TRAIL

community porch

TRAIL

TRAIL

bike path

Lincoln Building La Casita Say Yes

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TRAILS PORCHES & ROOMS The Trail, Porches, and Rooms work together with existing street and buildings to form a Linear Park, drawing people up and down the street. --the Trail brings the “Outside” – Nature -- into the street; --Porches mediate between inside and outside, residential and public space, sidewalk and street, Trail and Rooms; --the Rooms bring the inside out, locating Outdoor Program Space in relation with NWSI and partner organizations, who may play a stewardship role.

The ROOMS are community spaces, with program and character calibrated to provide a range of activities. At these space, stormwater runoff from roofs is captured and used for irrigation. All of these spaces include lighting and seating, and may provide opportunities for art installation. The Trailhead, at the south end of Wyoming Street, is conceived as an Urban Nature Center, adding to the Nojaim’s and St. Joseph’s Health and Wellness anchor. The Trailhead provides Trail, Creek, and Near Westside tourist information, as well as an Interactive history of Onondaga county land and people. As well as Trail Maps, it could provide bike, cross-country ski and snow shoe rental. A Healing Garden, Shuffleboard and Bocce Courts, and restrooms (if feasible) would contribute to this environment.

The PORCHES are social infrastructure: thresholds that mediate between disparate scales and uses, emphasizing interactivity. The Community Porch at the James Geddes Houses provides social seating, shade, trees, low planting and integrated lighting, floating between street and sidewalk, open to both sides. At the boundaries of community spaces (the Rooms), they are transparent, flexible enclosures, in support of safety, program, and identity, including digital access and interaction. Porches are to be calibrated in relation with street width and location of porches in original neighborhood. Porch elements are constructed of black locust or other locally-sourced wood, in combination with recycled plastic lumber, and other durable materials. Photovoltaic panels generate energy used to power Wifi access and integrated LED lighting.

SALTTRAIL DISCOVERY GUIDE Plan Your Visit » Exploring urban nature
It could be desirable to also locate some kind of recycling center in the area of the Nojaim’s / St Joe’s Parking lot, which, along with The Neighborhood Navigator, would concentrate a range of services here. Spaces in the block between Tully and Otisco focus on art, environment, and community: they include the Art Yard alongside PatchUp Studio and the Tully Outcrop at the south. The Youth Garden at La Casita is a participatory public space, with opportunity to demonstrate sustainability. Together with the Outdoor Gallery and a Barbeque/ Picnic area, it can accommodate a range of community programming.

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BETWEEN OTISCO ST AND TULLY ST 1”-10’

The TRAIL is a prototype for elevating pedestrian experience through integration of nature and play, for a positive experience of nature in the city. The mission of the Trail is to foster stewardship of urban nature through diverse recreational and educational opportunities, enhancing awareness, appreciation, and understanding. Conceptual strategy is to approach design of sidewalk as if it were in a park. Urban Nature Trail

The Otisco-Marcellus block provides opportunities for active recreation, where it intersects with the Trail (see ‘Trail’) and includes the SALTScape Play room, which The Trail draws nature “in” from Onondaga reconstructs a portion of the original Creek at the edge of the neighborhood, and “up” saltworks, with an interactive display of from layers of history of formation of the site. Wyoming Street history. Shade, planted It operates as a Nature conveyor, introducing areas, social seating, lighting, and a winter natural settings and elements, reintegrating ‘hot zone’ make this a multi-generational ecological systems into Wyoming Street, including space. Salt sheds are reinterpreted as in Play areas, where grass hills, water, rocks, programmatic mobile elements. The space plants, and wood develop the senses, stimulate is able to be secured when not in use, and exploration, and provide opportunities for can also be opened up to engage the parking imaginative play. area, which has sports court markings and can also provide a venue for performance, It will be designed as a meander, interweaving greenmarket, and other special events. flows of people and water and drifts of topography Community spaces adjacent to NSWI and and planting, integrating Fitness Circuits, Play partner organizations capture stormwater Loops, and Nodes of Social Seating. Texture and runoff from roofs to irrigate gardens. materiality draw on regional ecology and geology, including Tully Limestone, part of the Onondaga Formation. Along the Trail outcroppings anchored in low mounds provide varied spatial experiences and exciting challenges.
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BETWEEN TULLY ST AND FABIUS ST 1”-10’

Connecting the south end of Wyoming Street to the Onondaga Creek Walk and downtown, the Trail engages all project elements and spaces, linking to bike lanes on West Street, through Recreation Alley, with its Wave Screen, Playground, Play Loop, Fitness Circuits, and Skate Park. Planting along the Trail aims to maximize biodiversity. Gently undulating topography, varied shade, and textured materiality, and lowmaintenance plantings, stimulate the senses, and encourage movement and discovery through active participation. Paving and planting in the trail slip alongside each other – creating a sense of fluidity. The Trail offers a paradigm for integrating healthy functional ecological systems and with an improved recreational infrastructure for a more beautiful and productive city. It extends the logic of the Connective Corridor to realize further co-benefits, in this neighborhood adjacent to the creek. Trail design standards would meet city DOT requirements on public property, with more flexibility in site areas belonging to NWSI. The Radiant Trail, a geothermally-heated (saltfree) walkway between the Trailhead and Nojaim Brothers Supermarket, is proposed as a pilot project, with health and green infrastructure metrics, which could be tracked. Disposition of planting will maximize presence of existing mature trees, for which we will produce a tree protection plan. New Trees including Urban Forestry/Nursery Lots, are High Canopy Trees, enabling visibility. Plantings at the pavement edge are characterized by those found in the shade of the forest, including native Red Maple, understory trees, ferns and evergreen groundcovers. The Trail and the Urban Forestry initiatives together contribute to a richer, functioning ecology that fosters biodiversity while increasing opportunities for physical and social activity.

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BETWEEN FABIUS ST AND GIFFORD ST 1”-10’

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ALONG GIFFORD ST 1”-10’

Social Environment
Strategies for producing change at the level of the social environment promote positive community attitudes and awareness around specific health behaviors, and/or shift cultural norms around outcomes of interest. Aspects of the social environment that one might engage include community and cultural norms, the socioeconomic status of the community, family habits, access to social support networks, and safety.

Individual Behavior
This level focuses on factors related to an individual’s behavior as it relates to her/his health. At the level of the individual, factors influencing behaviors include knowledge, attitudes, and skills.

Social Connectedness + Social Connectivity
Seating
strengthened access to gathering spaces social connectedness + social cohesion

Physical Activity
Biking
sustained physical activity (moderate to vigorous) road safety (reduced traffic related accidents & injuries) air quality active living a look to the future … what can happen Syracuse begins a Summer Streets program, including Wyoming Street and portions of Salt District Citizen science takes off on Wyoming Street

Planting
ecological awareness

Gardening Radiant Trail
safety short bursts of activity (moderate to vigorous ) active living

Wayfinding
safety improved + equitable access

Syracuse-Grows becomes a partner in Youth Garden at La Casita. Welcome-Inn opens 3-season kiosk at Marcellus and Wyoming

Playing
short bursts of activity (moderate to vigorous )

PUSH ME !

Lighting
safety engagement

Art making
short bursts of activity (moderate to vigorous )

City neighborhood – new jobs Nursery and greenhouse lots are selectively harvested and sold for new construction as demand increases. Some greenhouse and nursery lots are kept in production. --Audubon Society Monday Morning Birdwalks begin at the Trail Head, reaching the Creek. Scaling the Trail – Salt City Nature --tracking of project metrics provides data for scaling up of trail to other neighborhoods; formation of Friends of SALT Trail Existing Syracuse Discovery Trails strengthen their identity as part of Urban Trails system, elevating pedestrian experience, integrating nature and play, art and technology, interconnecting neighborhoods and destinations, in support of human and environmental health. --Syracuse Bikeshare program adopts Yellow Fellow

Youth Playing
social connectedness + social cohesion people presence

Rain Water
ecological awareness community involvement in stewardship initiatives

BBQ
people presence social connectedness + social cohesion civic engagement + political participation

Reading
people presence involvement in community activities

Urban Forestry Initiative: From vacant lots to full environments In the context of a landowner incentive program, a lifted and open canopy of trees may fill in vacant lots, while providing shaded, potentially public spaces, including a learning center about Syracuse regional ecosystems. Trees can be selectively thinned and sold as street trees for Syracuse neighborhoods. The use of nursery operations and practices as a structuring system and time-based urbanization process may contribute to urban reforestation, creek bank stabilization, and opportunities for employment. Tree planting will provide visual relief and shelter, increase adjacent property values, conserve energy by reducing air conditioning costs, filter air pollutants, and reduce stormwater runoff.

Skating
civic engagement

Gardening
healthy food literacy improved nutrition improved + equitable access to services

LITERACY LOGGIA

FILM PROJECTION NORTH TRELLIS OPEN

BAR COURT

SALT PLAZA PARTY AT SALT PLAZA PARKING AND OR SPORTING FIELD BI-WEEKLY FARMERS MARKET FOOD TRUCKS

SALT PLAZA

BASKETBALL GAME

EVENING STROLLING BIKE SHARE

FOOD FAIR COMMUNITY GARDEN BIKE SHARE BIKE SHOP

PLAYGROUP

TO ONONDAGA TRAIL SKATE BOARDING

EVENING

WEEKEND

SPORTING EVENTS