Community Research

Welcome to the East Lewiston Revitalization Master Plan and Focus Design project presentation by Deng Chau. (click on the icons for a larger image) http://www.cityoflewiston.org/comdev/Main%20Pages/City%20Gallery.htm
Goals	1.Design a community so the community and many other people can use. 2.Make a good use out of the existing site. 3.Design the community that has commute transportation for the community to use. 4.The density of residential housing should not be less than 10 units per acres. 5.Designing a community t for a short distance to walk.
Program	When doing a revitalization of East Lewiston, what I really want to do was to provide a place where people can live and doing what they are doing in everyday life. The most important so they feel like they are home. So designing a residential housing , retail shops, commercial and many other to fit in this 511 acres area. By doing this I designed a 2 story that almost close to each with a parking lot right in front of their house and a very nice back yard area. Also 3 story apartment all around the area with the the mix-use of the many other commercials and retail stores around it.
Schematic Design	For the schematic design we all did several, and later on pick the one that we think most suitable for the area. I did couple of this the design and it turn the one the I choose was the one the will best work for the area.
	This is the master of plan of the East Lewiston. It has the overview of everything that has been change during the revitalize.
Master Plan	The master has all the community residential housing the mix-used of the commercial and retail shops and the apartment complex. The most important was the transportation the will taking people to working everyday if they don't want to drive. For the Master Plan instead of having a light rail for the community to use I design to have a city bus that will go around the suburban area and downtown. As you can see in the master plan the bottom of the east side the master plan has a lot of the residential housing the reason is that because I want to separate a little bit of the residential houses from the downtown so they can have their own privacy. The downtown is located in central of the Eat Lewiston. Most of the downtown area has several mixed-use of several commercials retail and residential. There also a little square right before downtown. Those square is for people to use is served as a public use and park.
	Mater Plan Fact Population: 13,000 2 Churches 2 Main parking lots 10 units/acre 1 Elementary school and mixed use of residential, retail and commercials area. Plants suggestion: Trees: Golden plain trees, Honey Locus and black Locus, maple trees and American lindens. Shrubs: Burning bushes, Sea shrubs, Japanese maples, junipers and Viburnums.
Focus Area
	This the focus area of the mix-used of the residential and retail and commercial area. Plan drawing of downtown connecting to the community. The focus area only focus in mostly downtown area. Because they think this is a good way to show what is going on this downtown and community. This is the area that mostly going to be busy of all. The place to work and live and hang out. Especially the square in the center that has to be a lot of things for the town. It bringing people to together. Also it can serve as a market place like the friendship square in downtown Moscow. The square the can serve several things for the community. Almost everywhere people go around this town they will see either retail store or apartment complex right above it. Right by the huge apartment complex there is a bus station. This is what make the a better place to live. Because if people don't want to walk for a long distance they could always taking the bus to town.
Overview
	The also the plan detail drawings of both focus area down below. The one on the left is the focus are for the square and downtown. The one on the right is the focus area for the apartment complex. The choose these two place because I want to compare the places of how they will work and how to two are connected. The square seem like it sitting there alone they both serve a lot of thing for people. a provide a place for people to live. This is also an overview of each space.
Detail
	This is the perspective view of the square. The square is located right in center of the downtown area. The purpose of the square is for place to gather around. A place to hang out it served like a friendship square in downtown Moscow. In the square it has a gazebo and the water fountain, and it pavement instead of grass. The reason it is because it much better to have pavement than the grass so people don't have to taking care as much. Along the side that are a lot of plants that are plan along there, they are golden plain trees.
Detail
	This is a detail perspective of East Downtown Lewiston will look like. As you can see I'm trying to make this place like a place they people can use and feel like they are at home. There are several angle parking a long the street. This will help the downtown to have so much of of parking lot. The most important it a short distance walk for the community. The detail there are 3 story building the bottom part is serve as a retail store and the top 2 is serve for business and apartment. The drawing show that the sidewalk is big enough that the retail store can put there outdoor and table and chairs out the customer to use and buy. The purpose of this was to give a community a welcome place.
Detail
	Detail of the apartment complex, it is a 3 story building and they most likely to connect to each other. The drawing show that there are porches in front of each apartment complex, the purpose of this is to have people using the porch during their free-time and many other thing. This can serve as a place for people to hang out. This a relaxation spot after along hard working day. Most of these apartment complex has either 1-3 bedroom apartment, but no more than three. What did not show in the perspective was the parking lot in the back. They are for apartment and visitor to use. This is the long the apartment complex that has several parking lot all around the apartment.