RIVERCIRCLE BEHNISCH TEAM A Strategic Perspective The RIVERCIRCLE urban landscape concept proposes a durable framework for the evolution of the Arch grounds within the larger milieu of St. Louis and East St. Louis addressing the many current stakeholder interests on both sides of the river. The design strategy of the Great Rivers Expo and the RIVERCIRCLE will provide the physical framework for visitors to experience the 2015 many new and diverse places and events. To achieve this goal we will make sure that all planning and design proposals emerging out of our Rivercircle! concept will be based on the close relationship between people’s natural use of public spaces and the physical character and form of the built environment while embracing 1960 the unique qualities of the local context on both sides of the Mississippi River. Rivercircle shall open up, invite and include people, provide different activities and possibilities and thereby invite and ensure multiplicity and diversity. 2010 Great Rivers Expo Begins Memorial Competition 1904 World’s Fair, St. Louis 1948 National Expansion 1965 National Expansion 2065 100th Anniversary 1904 Summer Olympics 2015 50th Anniversary Memorial Opens Celebration Celebration 2000 2050 1900 1950 GREAT RIVERS EXPO – INTERNATIONAL BUILDING AND LANDSCAPE EXHIBITION The RIVERCIRCLE! | NATIONAL MALL concept, framing urban, landscape, architectural and artistic activity, emerges from a sustaining vision of integrated regional development, an encircling strategic plan and organization we propose as the GREAT RIVERS EXPO – THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING AND LANDSCAPE EXHIBITION ST. LOUIS. GREAT RIVERS EXPO is partly a building exhibition in the classic, architectural sense, but is also a federal and state-supported entity that over - sees individual redevelopment projects and an overarching Master Plan. A variety of landscape and architecture, art projects will be developed over time rather than developed as a single event. The mission, mandate and timeframe illustrate the most productive contemporary thinking in the ecological and economic regeneration of a former industrial region; the methods and designs emerging from this strategy are best described as “Sustained Vitality.” A fragmented urban fabric Reconnected and whole once more RIVER EDGE EXTENSIONS WASHINGTON PLAzA : A NEW LOCAL MARkET EADS BRIDGE MUSIC PROjECT EAST AND WEST RIVER EDGE GATEWAy MALL TRANSFORMATIONS NEW ARTS COLLECTIVE GATEWAy MALL : MUSEUM ENTRy CLOSE CHESTNUT (EVENTS) AMPHITHEATER EAST RIVERBANk : PROGRAM EXTENSION CULTURAL INCUBATOR RESOURCE CENTER LOCAL PROGRAMS MEMORIAL ACCESS OVER FLOODWALL GONDOLA MULTI-PURPOSE VENUE BLVD. TRAIL NETWORk I-70 REMOVAL UNDER POPLAR BRIDGE : AN URBAN SPORTS PARk Now! : Quick Wins Before 2015 : Gaining Momentum 2015 : New Perspectives Future : Sustained Vitality Our project does not have a completion date in 2015. We believe that the We are proposing that the city starts transforming four key entrance gate- Festival! Or: An event for St Louis. In 2015 the Arch celebrates its 50th an- Provision of a sustainable long range plan for the citizens of St Louis and process has already started and that there are opportunities to introduce fjrst ways into the Arch grounds immediately with low cost initiatives that take niversary. It offers an opportunity to make the Arch grounds a local destina- East St Louis. A framework plan with built in fmexibility allowing for many interventions in 2010. Our aggressive phasing strategy is not proposing a place in the right-of-way of the public in close dialogue with adjacent build- tion with new program celebrating the Arch again, new phase / Catalyst for different uses and developments in the future. breakneck fast-track procurement method, but instead a process where legal ing stakeholders that are informed of the further phasing and process. the city with new programs and amenities, a reinterpretation of the Arch opportunities to commence with select key ‘Quick Win’ projects are quickly grounds, a destination for the citizens of St Louis. implemented to signal to the people of St. Louis that the process is underway.
BEHNISCH TEAM Site Section - 2015 N Site Plan - 2015 Introducing and Connecting New Landscapes and Ecologies Hydrology - Stormwater Strategy Interconnected Public Space Network Reconnecting a Fragmented Ecology Storm water Strategy RIVERCIRCLE Reclaiming of a native landscape that celebrates the ecological history of the Bottomlands will restore the We propose a network of wetlands, bio-swales, canals and channels that capture, cleanse and reuse the site The RIVERCIRCLE traverses a series of different and ever changing landscapes and urban conditions, con- matrix of marsh, scrub, woodlands, and seasonal fmoodplain to the site. The site invites visitors from across and adjacent landscape’s storm water runoff. necting them while allowing for an exciting and diverse experience. the River to play, recreate and meander through the restored Bottomland woodlands and marshes, amongst boardwalks, hiking trails, and picnic groves.
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