Grown Grown ITHACA SYSTEM CHRISTINE MA PROGRAMS CARBON CYCLE SITE VISION Start-up Work and Live Providing a supportive environment for post-graduates and young entrepreneurs to live, work, and florish in. Connect and Play Connect missing links in trail accessibility, thereby bringing back the stunning views of Ithaca Falls and Downtown Ithaca to the public. Behold and Create Act as a steward of Theater arts and local performance by creating outdoor amphitheater and gallery. Grow and Eat Creating a new food center shampioning solar energy and garden to table practices. Providing wide raning cuisines from food trucks to Ithaca Fall Grill to the local community and beyond. 15 min 10 min Theater Art Food Start-UP Recreation 71% 49% 59% 6,636 3,000,000,000 of U.S. Adults Accessed the arts at leaset of U.S. Adults Participated in the visual of U.S. Adults went to the movies Students Graduate from Cornell Every Year. in funding. Cornell Listed Startups have raised of the graduation class stayed in Tompkins County. Doubled the number of 2007. Missing trail linkage from Cornell Plantation to Ithaca Fall. Inaccessible view of Ithaca Fall and Downtown. Co-working Spaces and Post-graduation Liviing Cornell Start-Ups. once during a 12-month period through elec- tronic media. or performing arts at least once during a 12- month period. Center of food desert. Closest grocery is 20 mins walking distance. Command-High density residential area between west campus and Fall Creek neighborhood. at least once during a 12-month period. 17% 4 NO 346 CONCEPT The growth of start-ups and the available funding in Ithaca coupled with the lack of a strong support network for the start-up lifestyle. The vibrant fine arts scene without very many venues hosting theater and performing arts The enthusiasm for local and organic food but only one existing community garden in the city of Ithaca A foodies’ city in the truest sense, but with a site at the center of a 15-minute-walking-radius food desert The town of trails, vistas, and gorges, but with views obscured and trails disconnected by the site SITE ANALYSIS ONLY SITE PLAN 1 9 10 14 15 15 16 11 12 13 2 5 4 6 7 8 3 16 1 2 3 Start-Up Incubator Small Unit Housing Community Garden Compost Center Food Truck Area Walk-through Vendors/Maket Gimme Coffee Ithaca Fall Grill Constructed Wetland Metal Garden Overlook Fountain Plaza/ Iceskating Ezra’s Tunnel Trail Art Gallery/ Performance Center Overlook Open Theater Parking Lot 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 12 8 10 11 5 6 7 13 1 2 P 4 9 P 15 16 PHASING Phase 1 Re/Order Phase 2 Re/Connect Phase 3 Re/Center Phase 4 Re/Energize Phase 5 Re/Create Ezra’s Tunnel Trail Overlook Gimme Coffee Constructed Wetland Metal Garden Compost Center Food Truck Area Walk-through Vendors/Maket Fountain Plaza/ Iceskating 3 Start-Up Incubator Small Unit Housing Community Garden Ithaca Fall Grill Parking Lot Art Gallery/ Performance Center Overlook Open Theater A B C C’ D D’ B’ A’ A A’ D D’ B B’ Geranium Mustard Sunflower Co-working Entrepreneur living Rooftop garden Solar PV Constructed Wetland Compost C C’ Phyto- Stabilization Sequester or immobilize con- taminants by absorbing them into their roots and releasing a chemical that converts the con- taminant to a less toxic state. Phyto- Extraction Plants take up contaminants with their roots and accumu- late them in large quantities within their stems and leaves. Performance Art Restaurant patio Theater Art Food Start-UP Recreation Circulation Planting