client: FDOT scope: I-395 Corridor Redevelopment Study. role: Lead Urban Designer, Perkins+Will. team: Jovany Chediak, Cesar Garcia-Pons, Andrea Sandoval
overview
For decades, the I-395 Corridor has acted as a barrier between Downtown Miami and multi-cultural residential neighborhoods to the north. This study demonstrated how that barrier could be healed using remnant axes of the original street grid. Lining those corridors with suitable program bridges could knit the city back together without wholesale restructuring of the elevated highway structure.
For decades, the I-395 Corridor has acted as a barrier between Downtown Miami and multi-cultural residential neighborhoods to the north. This study demonstrated how that barrier could be healed using remnant axes of the original street grid. Lining those corridors with suitable program bridges could knit the city back together without wholesale restructuring of the elevated highway structure.
design approach
While from plan view, it seems that there is little room for redevelopment within the DOT owned parcels, a study of street sections showed that active liners of compatible program could reinvigorate the streets and provide for a range of necessary programmatic functions which are currently missing within the expensive downtown core. Development of such spaces on land leased from DOT could provide revenue to support public space development and perhaps more importantly create opportunities for employment adjacent to marginalized neighborhoods to the north.
While from plan view, it seems that there is little room for redevelopment within the DOT owned parcels, a study of street sections showed that active liners of compatible program could reinvigorate the streets and provide for a range of necessary programmatic functions which are currently missing within the expensive downtown core. Development of such spaces on land leased from DOT could provide revenue to support public space development and perhaps more importantly create opportunities for employment adjacent to marginalized neighborhoods to the north.