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Project Goals

• Retention and adaptive reuse of the OPH for a mix of specialty retail, entertainment and restaurant use
• Retain the commercial fish activities along the waterfront, but reconfigure the use by modifying the existing facility with a structure that will efficiently accommodate commercial fish activities as an integrated component of the overall design
• Strive for maximum sustainability
• Establish the area as a cultural core of Downtown and San Diego
• Maximize views from the site
• Encourage pedestrian circulation within the project
• Minimize parking surface
• Reserve as much of the area for open space while increasing density
• Improve edge conditions of land to water, as well as site edge and road edge
• Capitalize the area as a public open space
  

Thx to Vicki something i found out today that i should've known earlier

The waterfront area managed by the Port is called state public trust land. This land that must serve statewide, as opposed to purely local, public purposes. Public trust uses are generally limited to water-dependent or water-related uses including:

• Commerce
• Fisheries
• Navigation
• Environmental preservation
• Recreation

Examples of appropriate uses are:

• Ports, marinas, docks, wharves, and buoys;
• Hunting, commercial and sport fishing;
• Bathing, swimming, boating;
• Warehouses, container cargo storage, facilities for the production of oil and gas;
• Visitor serving facilities such as hotels, restaurants, shops and parking lots;
• Wildlife refuges, scientific study; and
• Open space

Uses not permitted on public trust lands are those not related to the list above, do not serve a public purpose, and can be located on non-waterfront property such as residential, non-maritime related commercial, including department stores, and certain office uses.

and Rob Quigley's winning competition of my site with Sasaki Associates

redevelopment criteria:

• Retention and adaptive reuse of the OPH for a mix of specialty retail, entertainment and restaurant uses.
• Demolition of Harbor Seafood Mart (HSM) and development of a smaller facility to incorporate commercial fishing uses, a waterfront fish restaurant and retail spaces.
• Reconfiguration of HSM, OPH, and Seaport Village parking lots.
• New public park and plaza areas.
• Implementation of a Parking Management Program to include some or all of the following: a) on/off-site parking; b) valet/tandem parking; and, c) shuttle system or participation in a shuttle system linking the site to off-site parking.

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It is my intention to apply a recursive analytical process that will design a sustainable community that not only establish a unique identity to seaport village but will add to the rich cultural fabric that is created within San Diego. A city made up of villages that have been fractured by resent changes that are created by cultural and social shifts.
I have chosen this as the premise for my thesis given the decay of social and cultural identity that was original established upon it conception, and the lack of sustainability in this highly ecological area.
In order to elevate this area into a cultural nexus I have decided to incorporate a opera house and museum as well as integrate mix use design principles to establish a sense if community that was previously sea port village.

Thesis title

a Recursive Envisaging: post modern communities Elucidated

Recursive: pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly.

Envisage: To conceive an image or a picture of, especially as a future possibility

Elucidate: to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain

This is the idea that a community resides within a neighborhood, which then resides in a city,that is located in a county encapsulated in a state making up a country (this is a specific structure only is applicable in the US) is a recursive process. Each level of detail has their own certain components that exists in all layers, that each layer has it's own distinctive quality yet follows the same rules.

knowing and understanding these components it is clear that all and future communities need to be designed following this process.

It is my goal to use my thesis to explain and adopt this process into a project.