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street gateway
PROJECT FALL 2020
Sponsored by:
Lyndhurst Foundation
HOW CAN ART ALTER BEHAVIOR AND PERCEPTIONS, AND IMPROVE CONNECTIONS IN THE GLASS STREET GATEWAY AREA?
INTRODUCTION East Chattanooga
The Chattanooga Department of Transportation (CDOT), in YFD Center
partnership with Glass House Collective, has been awarded a
$25,000 national grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies for the
Asphalt Art initiative. This initiative is a new program designed to
help cities use art and design to improve street safety, revamp
public spaces, and engage communities. Crutchfield Street,
between Glass Street and Dodson Avenue, was selected as the
Save A Lot
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used to create a welcoming atmosphere and bring attention to
the new neighborhood grocery store.
In addition to the asphalt art piece, artists, designers,
community members, and local stakeholders will design and
implement tactical interventions in what we have termed the
“Glass Street Gateway”, which is defined as a 5-minute walking
radius of the Crutchfield Street site.
Hardy Elementary School
This fall, Glass House Collective, in conjunction with our project collaborators, CDOT,
Chattanooga Design Studio, AIA Chattanooga, and Street Plans, will be hosting the Planning-
By-Doing workshops to explore ways to improve connectivity, comfort, and access
in the Glass Street Gateway area. The ideas generated in the initial planning workshop will
result in two “doing” outcomes:
• Provide design concepts for the asphalt mural
• Generate ideas for low-cost, tactical interventions that can be
implemented quickly in the Glass Street Gateway area
Through a creative community engagement process led by Glass House Collective, more than
300 residents identified landscaping and beautification as community priorities in the Glass
Street Gateway area. This fall CDOT begins construction on a streetscape design, installing new
sidewalks and streets trees along Glass Street and Dodson Avenue, which should be complete
by May 2021, and with your help, the asphalt art mural will be designed and installed on
Crutchfield Street by spring 2021!
ABOUT THE
WORKSHOPS
TEAM C O M PO S I TI O N
East Chattanooga
We invite you to participate in designing and creating improvements Stakeholder/Partner
around the Glass Street Gateway through our Planning-By-Doing East Chattanooga
Workshops. The project will involve two phases between fall 2020 and Resident
spring 2021.
The Planning Workshop:
The first workshop on October 3rd will bring together cross-disciplinary teams
Co-Facilitators
including artists, residents, community partners, and design professionals. (Artist & Architect/Planner)
Each team will be challenged to create design concepts for Crutchfield Street’s
Asphalt Mural and interventions that better connect our Gateway’s assets while
addressing our community priorities.
The Doing Workshop:
Mural Artist
Specific temporary ideas generated in the workshop are called tactical
interventions or demonstration projects. These short-term, low-budget
projects test ideas and gather community input for long-term change, making Team Artist
community life more vibrant and healthy. Each team will be given a $3,000
budget to implement at least one of their intervention ideas in the fall of 2020,
while other ideas such as the Crutchfield Street Asphalt Art project will be
further developed and implemented in the spring of 2021.
IF YOU HAVEN’T REGISTERED, PLEASE DO SO HERE BEFORE SEPTEMBER 21st.
BACKGROUND
Cities around the world are using flexible, artistic, and short-term Since 2016, Glass House Collective has been focused on improving the
projects to advance long-term goals related to street safety, enhanced public realm at the Glass Street Gateway. After years of working alongside
public spaces, and resident participation. Glass House Collective has the residents on this project, we are thrilled about the updates that are now
been following this process with our neighbors and partners since underway:
the organization’s inception. We’ve done temporary crosswalks that
have turned into permanent ones. We built tree planters before our The Save A Lot Grocery Store is adding the final touches
permanent tree wells were installed. We built a community greenspace to open to the community in 2020.
before we had our neighborhood park. We’ve installed murals on
buildings that prompted building owners to invest in the exterior and CDOT is installing new sidewalks and street trees before
interior of their properties. May 2021.
It’s important to note that all of these projects were inspired by
In addition to these improvements, the community has identified other
community members sharing ideas and identifying the need during
priorities that we hope to address in the workshop:
workshops very similar to the one we have invited you to in October.
• Safe routes from Hardy to the YFD Center and Save A Lot
• A gathering space near Save A Lot
• Beautification
• Walkability
PRIMARY PROJECT SITE GOAL: design an asphalt mural design
G ATEWAY + tactical interventions to address community priorities...
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WORKSHOP WORKSHOP
GOALS OBJECTIVES
• Provide context and inspiration for a street • Increase pedestrian activity
mural on Crutchfield Street
• Encourage incorporation of local art and
• Inspire inclusivity and community spirit culture and contextualise design
• Engage neighborhood residents in the • Generate a sense of security through active
process of designing and installing use of public spaces
temporary projects that test potential • Increase public and private investment in
improvements to the Glass Street Gateway the area
public realm • Use the input gathered in the workshop and
lessons learned from the temporary projects
• Mitigate safety concerns
to create a community-driven plan for the
public realm surrounding the Dodson and
Glass intersection
INTERVENTION INSPIRATION
TIMELINE
F A LL 2 0 2 0 : SP RING 2021:
PLANNING-BY-DOING WORKSHOP: MURAL CONCEPT DEADLINE:
October 3, 10am - 12pm* December 7th
*outside, less than 10 people, masks required
COMMUNITY SURVEY LAUNCHES:
TEAM FOLLOW UP:
December 18th
October 5 - October 9
Meet via Zoom to finalize your ideas, design,
and project scope (Volunteers needed? Budget? FINAL DESIGN CHOSEN:
Installation plan? Fabrication needs?) Mid-January
INTERVENTION PRESENTATION:
October 15, 5:30pm - 6:30pm ASPHALT MURAL INSTALLED:
APRIL 2021
PLANNING-BY-DOING WORKSHOP//
INSTALLATION:
Teams install before the end of NovemberRESOURCES, INSPIRATION, AND READING MATERIAL • Improve Streets for Children article • Bloomberg Philanthropies Guide to Asphalt Art • NACTO Designing Streets for Kids Guide • The Glass Street Gateway is included in the Historic River to Ridge Area 3 Plan, a guide for new growth, redevelopment, and preservation in the 17 neighborhoods between the Tennessee River and Missionary Ridge, and South Chickamauga Creek and Interstate 24. • Glass House Collective commissioned 800 Collective to design and facilitate a creative community engagement process to gather input for the vision of the Glass Street/Dodson Avenue intersection. Their findings are summarized in this report. • More information about Glass House Collective and the work we’ve accomplished can be found in this GHC Snapshot. • Street Plan’s Guide to Tactical Urbanism
MEET THE TEAM
The Chattanooga Department of Transportation aims to Glass House Collective is a creative placemaking Chattanooga Design Studio is an independent nonprofit
make efficient transportation viable for all commuters nonprofit organization in East Chattanooga founded in community resource that promotes excellence in urban
– cyclists, pedestrians, transit users and motorists while 2012. Glass House Collective works with neighbors to design through education, facilitation, and collaboration.
enhancing multi-use public spaces for all people. make Glass Street and the surrounding neighborhood The work of the Studio takes many forms: studies,
cleaner, safer, and more inviting through community-led charrettes and exhibitions for the general public;
CDOT’s fundamental role is to apply a comprehensive
and artist-driven projects. programs for the professional design community and
approach to our transportation network with
general public; facilitation for community stakeholders;
consideration of how transportation needs impact our
consultation with the development community; and
community’s priorities as a whole, from public safety
resources for local government.
to economic and community development. A major
component of the department strategy is the planning AIA Chattanooga is the local chapter of the American
and development of our city’s infrastructure. The Institute of Architects, a national professional
department stewards the right process for the city to organization with more than 95,000 members. The AIA
ensure that we take into account the technical aspects is the voice of the architectural community. We advocate An internationally recognized urban planning, design,
of road maintenance and public safety in addition at the national, state, and local levels for issues affecting architecture, and transportation planning practice with
to priorities like stronger neighborhoods, a growing the practice of architecture and work to educate the offices in New York and Miami. The firm has expertise
economy and safer streets. We emphasize doing so in public on the important role of architects. We believe in integrating placemaking and mobility with broader
a way that is open and transparent, while providing our that Chattanooga should be a place where our built land use, urban design, public engagement, and
citizens with the most effective services at the best value. environment inspires our best lives, promotes a thriving comprehensive planning goals. Street Plans is recognized
economy, protects our natural environment, and as the leading practitioner/steward of the global Tactical
empowers all communities. Urbanism movement.GLOSSARY Tactical Interventions, Tactical Urbanism, etc: short-term, low-budget, easy to implement projects that test ideas and gather community input for long- term change Placemaking: a collaborative process that inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces in order to maximize shared value Creative Placemaking: an evolving field of practice that intentionally leverages the power of the arts, culture and creativity to serve a community’s interest while driving a broader agenda for change, growth and transformation in a way that also builds character and quality of place
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