Design Strategies For An Adaptive Reuse Parking Garage—A Hybrid Public-private Partnership
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2022
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Parking takes up nearly one-third of the metropolitan ground plane in many cities. The idea of minimum parking requirements that led to parking abundance is obsolete and debilitating to land-strapped urban cores with other social and cultural real estate demands. Part of the solution to better resource management is re-thinking the urban fabric—what is already there and how to use it. The fact that a parking garage is present indicates enough surrounding density to support its existence, and it implies nearby activities that it can relate to and build upon. Woven throughout the city, parking structures' robust, essential nature is ripe for transforming into make-shift community assets based on local users and events. Through the exploration of adaptive reuse, three design scenarios examine the relationships between car and human circulation, architectural volume, and structural strategies that yield different typologies of social spaces and return on investment. Accordingly, the culminating design applies these strategies through a phased design approach to the Fort Street Mall Walmart parking garage in Downtown Honolulu, Hawaii. It draws from the client's culture of permitting RV camping in the continental US to shed light on the value of resource sharing and empathy as a pathway to private enterprise and public alliance. The purpose-driven, regenerated garage reacts to recent evolutions in shared commerce, scarcity of existing housing, and social and cultural resources across domains and social strata. It anticipates a new and refined focus on local communities and relationships as the world emerges from a state of lockdown during the recent pandemic. The cultural landscape is shifting, and car storage is of the past. To stay relevant in an ever-changing society, we need to alter how we develop, build and curate real estate differently than several years ago—latent parking garages are ideal test sites for invigoration.
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Architecture, Adaptive reuse, Architecture, Parking garage
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Hawaii
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