{"id":8877,"date":"2023-01-26T16:18:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2023-01-30T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T12:51:01","slug":"umd-students-reveal-the-art-of-the-possible-in-silver-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2023\/01\/umd-students-reveal-the-art-of-the-possible-in-silver-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"UMD Students \u2018Reveal the Art of the Possible\u2019 in Silver Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><!--<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/230112-UMD-Bd-p61-TeamD.jpg\" alt=\"On the left is a sky view drawing of Wayne Street with a red arrow pointing to a drawing of a new series of streets and a plaza. On the right is a closeup look at the new plaza.\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/230112-UMD-Bd-p61-TeamD.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/230112-UMD-Bd-p61-TeamD-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/230112-UMD-Bd-p61-TeamD-768x361.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>-->You don\u2019t need to be a novelist to tell a great story; you don\u2019t even have to be a great writer. Storytelling through architectural rendering is a centuries-old way of expressing the relationship between design and the construction of buildings in the world around us. Architectural renderings can also give context to our cultural understanding of places and can inspire visions of those places and our society into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Several groups of graduate students at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning &amp; Preservation set out to tell an architectural design story to reimagine downtown Silver Spring. Professors Matt Bell and Georgianne Matthews guided students in the Graduate Urban Design Studio this past fall as they studied the existing and historical conditions of Silver Spring, its topography, architecture, transportation networks and current uses to unearth the great qualities and missing opportunities of the city. The students also studied the great historical urban designs of the Renaissance and Medieval Europe, Frederick Law Olmsted\u2019s Emerald Necklace in Boston, the historic Campidoglio in Rome, and Rockefeller Center and Highline in New York City, all of which are examples of memorable places with street and open space networks that bring value to their cities and communities. The UMD studio is about learning the essentials of placemaking and the value of architecture to frame memorable experiences.<\/p>\n<p>In a semester\u2019s time, the students &#8211; through site drawings, models, and perspective renderings &#8211; reimagined the inhospitable and placeless environment of the Silver Spring transit area into a thriving city center that links to existing and new adjacent neighborhood squares through memorable boulevards, tree-lined streets, grand stairways, and pedestrian-oriented terraces. Each team was also asked to create a 1920\u2019s Art Deco style \u201ctravel poster\u201d that is representative of their proposed urban design and character for Silver Spring. As their professors stated, through this work they \u201crevealed the art of the possible\u201d in Silver Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Professors Bell and Matthews presented the students\u2019 work to the Montgomery County Planning Board during its weekly meeting on January 12<sup>th<\/sup>. We invite you to view their work and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mncppc.granicus.com\/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7&amp;clip_id=2734&amp;meta_id=24706\">presentation to the Board on the Planning Board website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some samples of the students\u2019 renderings that were presented to the Planning Board.<\/p>\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-8878\" style=\"max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-108-0 ml-slider-pro-2-56-0 metaslider metaslider-responsive metaslider-8878 ml-slider ms-theme-_theme_1601499156\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"UMD-students-Silver-Spring\" data-height=\"533\" data-width=\"800\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_8878\">\n        <ul id='metaslider_8878' class='rslides'>\n            <li aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-0'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/230112-UMD-Bd-p61-TeamD-800x533.jpg\" height=\"533\" width=\"800\" alt=\"On the left is a sky view drawing of Wayne Street with a red arrow pointing to a drawing of a new series of streets and a plaza. On the right is a closeup look at the new plaza.\" class=\"slider-8878 slide-8885 msDefaultImage\" title=\"230112-UMD-Bd p61-TeamD\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">Wayne Street is repurposed into a series of streets and plazas at the Purple Line Station level and then creates a grand stair down to a new plaza at the existing Metro Station. A retail destination frames the views to Metro.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <li style='display: none;' aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-1'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Team-F-UMD-Work-800x533.png\" height=\"533\" width=\"800\" alt=\"On the left are photos of Silver Spring\u2019s Gateway Plaza and a tree-lined pedestrian path in the Blairs Center area. On the right is an overhead shot of a map of downtown Silver Spring showing the new designs.\" class=\"slider-8878 slide-8886 msDefaultImage\" title=\"Team F UMD Work\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">In this drawing, the students created a direct linear set of streets, parks and plazas linking Ellsworth Street to the Purple Line Station, then across the Transit Center and East\/West Highway to a new central plaza within the Blairs Center area (High Park Plaza). <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n            <li style='display: none;' aria-roledescription='slide' aria-labelledby='slide-2'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/230112-UMD-Bd-p34-TeamA-002-800x533.png\" height=\"533\" width=\"800\" alt=\"An overhead map of downtown Silver Spring with a circle around a new plaza and gardens. On the right is a rendering of a new tower in downtown Silver Spring.\" class=\"slider-8878 slide-8884 msDefaultImage\" title=\"230112-UMD-Bd p34-TeamA (002)\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\">In this drawing, a new central terraced square at the southern end of the \u201cDiscovery Building\u201d that connects Ellsworth Mall to an improved Metro Center and down to the reimagined Blair Gardens. Wayne Avenue is detached from Colesville Road and circles down to Ripley Street framing a new tower at the existing Metro Garage site<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">You don\u2019t need to be a novelist to tell a great story; you don\u2019t even have to be a great writer. Storytelling through architectural rendering is a centuries-old way of expressing the relationship between design and the construction of buildings in the world around us. Architectural renderings can also give context to our cultural understanding of places and can inspire visions of those places and our society into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Several groups of graduate students at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning &amp; Preservation set out to tell an architectural design story to reimagine downtown Silver Spring. Professors Matt Bell and Georgianne Matthews guided students in the Graduate Urban Design Studio this past fall as they studied &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2023\/01\/umd-students-reveal-the-art-of-the-possible-in-silver-spring\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,299,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-places","category-public-spaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8901,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions\/8901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}