Pruitt Igoe Now
New Life
JAN WILLEM KUILENBURG
3/16/2012
N E W L I F E (note: the video has sound + voice over)
towards a Pruitt Igoe co-operative urban winery
We can look forward by looking back.
St. Louis is a damaged city. Spatial planning strategies have been impregnated with racial engineering, which led to exclusion, poverty, shrinkage and malfunction. Despite recent efforts to change this, the city is already dying for over five decades. It’s time to act and to define the Pruitt-Igoe plot as an example of local re-development, rooted in history.
The future of Pruitt-Igoe is defined by its surroundings of many abandoned, empty, urban plots.
Its future is embedded in the contrapositions of its original parameters:
1977 2012
mono functional.........................multi functional
private.......................................public
stone.........................................vegetation
zoned........................................open
top down...................................bottom up
post industrial............................post agricultural (pre natural)
discriminating............................social
excluded...................................mixed
abandoned................................attractive
radical.......................................realistic
urbanized..................................natural
regulated...................................developing
suburban...................................central
immutable.................................adaptable
contained..................................borderless
incorporated..............................productive
repetitive...................................unique
controlled..................................free
leaving generic rest space........making social space
the proposal
From 1847 Missouri has an impressive past of wine making with the third largest winery in the world and over 100 wineries until the prohibition of1920.
We propose a winery, organized as a co-operation of local citizens.
We propose a positive and productive use of the vacant plots. Available plots are gradually planted with wine plants.
During the first phase, the Pruitt-Igoe site will become a winery with a green, programmed perimeter, like a ‘hortus publicus’, with an open social space at its heart for the Borough.
The Pruitt-Igoe winery will grow along its perimeter. The perimeter has openings linking streets into its heart, an active and public park, open to all citizens. Later on, empty plots around the site will be planted with wine. The ‘figure and ground’ will be transformed from an urban desert with patches of green into a green landscape with spread buildings that will get a higher value. The boroughs that surround Pruitt-Igoe will benefit as well.
Pruitt Igoe Winery will:
-fit St. Louis climate and history,
-be organized by local citizens and give them pride,
-be productive and green,
-be able to grow and expand,
-have a social heart,
-deliver high quality bottled wines.
The air will be clean, the horizons will be green and the citizens will be responsible, productive and full of energy.
We hold the future in our hands.
New Life
JAN WILLEM KUILENBURG
3/16/2012
N E W L I F E (note: the video has sound + voice over)
towards a Pruitt Igoe co-operative urban winery
We can look forward by looking back.
St. Louis is a damaged city. Spatial planning strategies have been impregnated with racial engineering, which led to exclusion, poverty, shrinkage and malfunction. Despite recent efforts to change this, the city is already dying for over five decades. It’s time to act and to define the Pruitt-Igoe plot as an example of local re-development, rooted in history.
The future of Pruitt-Igoe is defined by its surroundings of many abandoned, empty, urban plots.
Its future is embedded in the contrapositions of its original parameters:
1977 2012
mono functional.........................multi functional
private.......................................public
stone.........................................vegetation
zoned........................................open
top down...................................bottom up
post industrial............................post agricultural (pre natural)
discriminating............................social
excluded...................................mixed
abandoned................................attractive
radical.......................................realistic
urbanized..................................natural
regulated...................................developing
suburban...................................central
immutable.................................adaptable
contained..................................borderless
incorporated..............................productive
repetitive...................................unique
controlled..................................free
leaving generic rest space........making social space
the proposal
From 1847 Missouri has an impressive past of wine making with the third largest winery in the world and over 100 wineries until the prohibition of1920.
We propose a winery, organized as a co-operation of local citizens.
We propose a positive and productive use of the vacant plots. Available plots are gradually planted with wine plants.
During the first phase, the Pruitt-Igoe site will become a winery with a green, programmed perimeter, like a ‘hortus publicus’, with an open social space at its heart for the Borough.
The Pruitt-Igoe winery will grow along its perimeter. The perimeter has openings linking streets into its heart, an active and public park, open to all citizens. Later on, empty plots around the site will be planted with wine. The ‘figure and ground’ will be transformed from an urban desert with patches of green into a green landscape with spread buildings that will get a higher value. The boroughs that surround Pruitt-Igoe will benefit as well.
Pruitt Igoe Winery will:
-fit St. Louis climate and history,
-be organized by local citizens and give them pride,
-be productive and green,
-be able to grow and expand,
-have a social heart,
-deliver high quality bottled wines.
The air will be clean, the horizons will be green and the citizens will be responsible, productive and full of energy.
We hold the future in our hands.