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CLEAR + Marpillero Pollak Architects
[Julia Czerniak, Landscape Architecture; Sandro Marpillero & Linda Pollak, Architecture and Urban Design] in collaboration with Jackie Brookner, Ecological Artist; Nina-Marie Lister, Landscape Ecologist; Linnaea Tillet and Yeune Kyue Kim, Tillet Lighting Design; and Neil Cook, Bruce Davison, Michael Leaveck, Mike Ness, and Daniel Windsor.
Project concept
Post-industrial Toledo is a palimpsest of forces and flows that continue to form the site. The project engages these forces and flows in a layering of existing and new infrastructures activated at different times of day, season and weather, to reacquaint Toledo with its own history.
Toledo already is GLASS CITY.
Our project suggests strategic shifts:
From OBJECT to FIELD
Two strategies reveal the site as a continuum of spatial and temporal scales: 1) the activation of 19th and 20th Century transportation infrastructure of canal, railroad, highway, city grid is in support of a memorable urban identity; and 2) the introduction of 21st century environmental infrastructure for stormwater management and public space.
From GATEWAY to THRESHOLD
The proposal uses the Anthony Wayne Trail’s intersection with Toledo’s boundaries to establish a vehicular threshold built up of limited interventions. It encourages the changing speed and vantage points of drivers to assert the dynamism of Toledo’s past, present and future in fleeting images.
From DISTRICT to CORRIDOR
The Warehouse District shares edges with a historical railroad, a highway, a north-south urban grid, a river and a creek. It has been modified, erased or deformed by each of their needs. The Anthony Wayne Trail intersects and connects with each these urban boundaries.
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Glass City project report (11.2MB in pdf format)
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