Mechanicsville 2030: The Past, Present, and Possible Future of One of Atlanta's Oldest Neighborhoods

Roark, Ryan

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Mechanicsville 2030: The Past, Present, and Possible Future of One of Atlanta's Oldest Neighborhoods

dc.contributor.author	Roark, Ryan
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Design	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Architecture	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2021-10-09T04:47:13Z
dc.date.available	2021-10-09T04:47:13Z
dc.date.issued	2021-09-08
dc.description	Presented on September 8, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. in the Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium, Architecture East Building, College of Design at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.	en_US
dc.description	Ryan Roark, a Ventulett NEXT Generation visiting fellow with the School of Architecture, Georgia Tech.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 67:27 minutes	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This lecture is an introduction to my upcoming exhibition of the same name at the Atlanta Preservation Center, opening September 24. The exhibition will feature a series of proposals—some by my spring 2021 senior studio and some of my own—for both renovation and new construction along Whitehall Street, a two-block stretch adjacent to South Downtown Atlanta and straddling the neighborhoods of Castleberry Hill and Mechanicsville. Bounded by railroad tracks to the north and I-20 to the south, the area is currently comprised of many empty lots and a variety of formerly industrial buildings—some disused, some partially used, and some functioning as residential lofts and warehouses. Whitehall’s development has been speculated for decades but has not yet begun. The work shown examines the role of history in architecture and blurs the lines between renovation and “ground-up” construction: even what appears to be an empty site has history, often still evidenced in foundations, material fragments, or even the soil. Reuse, especially in formerly industrial districts, all too often goes hand in hand with replacement of culture and displacement of residents; mitigating this relationship is not simple but was central to the development of the proposals in Mechanicsville 2030, which began with an in-depth study of the neighborhood and interviews with residents.	en_US
dc.format.extent	67:27 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/65382
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Architecture Lecture Series
dc.subject	Adaptive reuse	en_US
dc.subject	Atlanta history	en_US
dc.subject	Renovation	en_US
dc.title	Mechanicsville 2030: The Past, Present, and Possible Future of One of Atlanta's Oldest Neighborhoods	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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