Urban Infrastructure

By understanding the built environment around us, one can better develop a sense of what needs improvement. As a class, we were tasked to research water, waste, electricity, transportation, and communication systems in Minneapolis. My group was assigned communication and showing how it developed in the past, present, and future through the lens of the North Loop Neighborhood of Minneapolis. This part of the project was produced with a partner. My responsibilities included overall graphic development, research, and grahic development for the current and future uses of communication.

As continuation of the previous study, the second project was tasked to re-develop an existing parking lot at North 3rd Street and North 5th Avenue in the North Loop Neighborhood. The site required an internet switching station while incorporating selected services on a community wish list such as a community garden and bicycle service station. The bicycle service station interacts with the switching station by harnessing heat and power via exhaust recycling and PV panels, while the garden uses the existing site depression to create a buffer zone from traffic on the street level.