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Contributors
Monica Mulica (MArch23), Eric Abrahams, Emma Bateman, Trey Elder, Caleb Feaman, Sofia Gutierrez, Kamaria Gutter, Kayla Hammond, Oscar Kreft, Julia Patterson, Hannah Peaslee, Max Saltrelli, Lexie Suarez, Scott Zarider
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Description
AFNA (Architecture for Non-Architects) takes an interdisciplinary approach to community design, planning, and historic preservation. Freixas’s class introduces non-architecture students to the process by which architects think about, view, and produce the built environment.
The project began with a presentation by 4theVille on the history of The Ville and a visual tour of the neighborhood culminating on the site selected for intervention. The intent was to prepare the students for designing with the community in mind. Students were asked to produce a collage that involves the recording of both place and history. In sum, to lay out their first impressions of the site, using both experiential and historical archival data. It called for activating history in the public realm as a way to honor the events and shared stories that build a neighborhood for future generations.
After the initial exercise, students focused their efforts on spatializing and articulating community identity, history, and culture in a park on MLK Drive and N. Sarah St. The site, which has been previously identified by community members as part of the Heritage Walk, was now envisioned as a park, a bus loop and an entry point for the neighborhood, as part of the design exercise. For this, the students looked at precedents of memorial walks and spaces.
Due to the heavy transit of MLK and to aid in students’ decision-making process, Trailnet introduced the students to the Cultural Boulevard Project, including interventions and street calming recommendations.
The AFNA final review was opened to the public and held at WU due to COVID restrictions.
Document Type
Restricted Access Book
Publication Date
2023
Publisher
Washington University in St. Louis
City
Saint Louis, MO
Disciplines
Architecture | History | Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Recommended Citation
Freixas, Catalina, "Leveraging Historic Assets to Transform Communities: The Ville." (2023). Books and Monographs. 60.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/books/60
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