Fall 2020 Studio Presentations: MUP, MSRED, BAED
Dec. 9 - 11, 2020
Our fall 2020 studios in urban planning, environmental design and real estate development invite you to attend their final presentations on four unique Buffalo-based planning and development projects.
Preservation Planning Studio: Willert Park - A.D Price Homes: A Study of People and Place
Professor: Kerry Traynor, clinical associate professor of urban planning
Wednesday, December 9 at 1:00pm
https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/2829406650?pwd=dUpqc1EyeEJYS3FzL21aSnhSR0NKUT09
Passcode: 329708
Willert Park Courts, on Buffalo's East Side, was built in 1938 as housing for African Americans.
Willert Park Courts, also known as A.D. Price Courts, was designed by Frederick Backus in 1938 as a low rent housing project for the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority (BMHA) and was federally funded by the United States Housing Authority. The property, designed specifically for African Americans, consists of ten (10) buildings in a combination of two-story row house and three-story walk-up brick multiple dwellings. This studio studies the history of low income/low rent housing in the United States, including social, legal, economic, and architectural factors; the history of the neighborhood and Willert Park; current laws and guidelines, including the Department of Homes and Community Renewal (DHCR) Guidelines and New York State Homes and Community (NYSHCR) Guidelines, and inventory and analysis of the neighborhood and complex through the lenses of Historic Preservation, Urban Planning, and Real Estate Development.
MUP/MSRED Captstone Studio: Near-Term Strategies for the Northland Campus
Professors: Ernie Sternberg, professor of urban planning; Jeffrey LiPuma, senior fellow, real estate development
Wednesday, December 9, 3 - 5 pm
https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/95392113979?pwd=YUhlelFUV09NMXVvQkdJR1FsaHdCdz09 (if you are prompted for a password please type 'studio')
Northland Campus in the Delavan-Grider Neighborhood
Over the fall semester 2020, graduate students in Real Estate Development and in Urban and Regional Planning jointly carried out a capstone/studio project to demonstrate their professional abilities. On behalf of the Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, they investigated the potentials of the Northland Campus, a major industrial development project in Buffalo’s Delavan-Grider Neighborhood.
ARC607Lab + URP581Lab | Building Urban Hamlets: Imaging Buffalo’s Post-Highway Future
Professor: Hiro Hata, associate professor of architecture and urban design
Thursday, December 10, 1 pm - 3 pm
https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/94177808594?pwd=V0dabzhPaFNSVm9mU1VUSEVkYXRUdz09
Passcode: 841386
Student illustration of the Oak-Elm corridor in downtown Buffalo.
The studio was mounted to address the car-centric culture and social inequity related to housing in the inner cities. Three groups of interdisciplinary students from architecture and urban planning were charged with envisioning small clusters of social housing in the Oak-Elm Corridor dividing downtown from East Side. The work began with reclaiming the pre-highway era of Buffalo’s densely-settled neighborhoods that were all bulldozed during Urban Renewal. Through the use of reverse engineering, students were asked to remove the flyovers of Kensington Expressway and I-190 to make the areas dedicated to social housing we call: urban hamlet. The three groups of students, each working on one of the three sites: North, Middle, and South end of the Elm-Oak Arterial will present the summary of their semester work.
Studio Sponsor: Timothy Tielman, Executive Director, The Campaign for Greater Buffalo History, Architecture & Culture
Transportation Consultant: Michael Godfrey, AICP, Fisher Assoc.
BAED Studio: Upstate Road Train: Exploring Possibilities for High-Speed Intercity Bus Service along the New York State Thruway Corridor
Professor: Jeffrey Rehler, adjunct instructor, urban planning
Friday, December 11 at 9:30am
Student Map of the I-90 Thruway Corridor
This senior undergraduate environmental design studio explored possibilities for introducing intercity high-speed bus service across the New York State Thruway corridor (Buffalo to Albany) and featured a collaboration with graduate students at Cornell University. Students will discuss findings and design recommendations at the system, corridor, and station area scale to further the Upstate Road Train concept proposed by our client at the Campaign for Greater Buffalo. The presentation identifies potential social, environmental, and economic impacts; explores opportunities; and proposes recommendations for integrating the system with existing transportation modes in key cities along the I-90 corridor.