Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Stephanie A. Rolley / Economically insecure times require reduction of energy and land consumption, enhancement
of socio-economic and environmental quality of life, and reutilization of neglected existing
structures and sites. Traditional planning and design dictates through top-down policy and
ordered master planning. In contrast, interactive smart technology simulating human cognitive
reactions offers an alternative design framework - an intelligent, adaptive environment – capable
of redefining contemporary public open space design.
Traversing through the neglected Fifth Ward north of downtown St. Louis, the adaptive
reutilization of the abandoned Iron Horse Trestle interurban elevated railroad and subway
applies the Sense Respond Adapt Mutate Emerge conceptual framework (the S.R.A.M.E.
Strategy) by utilizing existing resources to create an interconnected, emergent open space
network.
Ten unique sites along the Iron Horse Trestle are initially embedded with sensory devices
capable of gathering and synthesizing learned information. The real-time actions translate
into physical structural responses. The site specifi c reactions extend outwards as structural
adaptations to indeterminate changes from trail users. The evolving structural form connects
and mutates the existing structure. Similar to a Choose your own adventure gamebook, the
Trestle’s open-ended and reactive programmatic strategies emerge as a series of potential
options for future inclusionary, interactive designs.
By selectively enhancing, creating, or enabling an open space system reacting to real-time
actual user needs over time directly along the Trestle line, the S.R.A.M.E. Strategy offers a
potential alternative framework for the indirect revitalization of neglected infrastructural
and economic conditions, a residential rejuvenation catalyst, and future socio-economic and
ecological sustainable living patterns education tool.
The Trestle’s revitalization serves as an education tool critiquing contemporary landscape
architecture and general design practice - the static, dictated, and consumptive. Intelligent
adaptive environments offer an alternative framework enabling interactive design decision
making capabilities to the users as options evolving over time.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:KSU/oai:krex.k-state.edu:2097/1493 |
| Date | January 1900 |
| Creators | Anterola, Jeremy K. |
| Publisher | Kansas State University |
| Source Sets | K-State Research Exchange |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Report |
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