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It’s business as unusual. Check out our playbook of affordable, customizable public space plans, distancing recommendations, and more.
See how these creative ideas have been implemented throughout Baltimore.
The Ideas Guidebook features these ten submissions.
Make ApART
Quinn Evans (Ethan Marchant, Steve Schwenk)
Micro District
Yard & Company, & Access
Space Frame
Zoe Roane-Hopkins
ParKIT
Ayers Saint Gross, Landscape Architecture (Abby Thomas, Michael McGrain, Connor Price)
Curblet Commons
Graham Projects (Graham Coreil-Allen)
Parklet Design Idea
EDSA (Craig Stoner, Terri Wu)
Hygiene, Hon
Ziger|Snead Architects (Doug Bothner, Jeremy Chinnis, Cyrus Lee, Kelly Danz)
Find Your Tropical Island
Christopher Odusanya
inFRONT of House
PI.KL (Pavlina Ilieva, Kuo Pao Lian)
The Food Court
Department Design Office (Maggie Tsang, Isaac Stein)
We are grateful for all 162 inspiring, creative solutions!
Social Delivery! by EnviroCollab
City Seating by Leo Gehrman
Protean Spine by Ginikachi Eburuoh
Side Stand Sit by Methods of Disruptive Design
The Modular Parklet by Jonathan Sandoval
Baltimore Hoopla by Bradley Site Design
6x6 Hon! by Chris Kao and Julian Maltby
Public Squares by Nicholas Mitchel and Ben Derlan
Single Mom Dream Market by Women's Advocacy Coalition Baltimore
The Corner Booth by James P. Wilson
New Urban Fabric by Taylor McCabe and Judith Aaron
BaltiBox by Design Collective
BizBox by Ayers Saint Gross
Hugge Hut by Hello Happy
Pop-up Store by Karolina Skowronek and Carlos Vega Betancor
United and Uncontained by Tony Kostreski, PLA and Rob Hollis, AIA
Six Foot Street Flair by Bradley Site Design
Parallel Parklet by Laura Thul Penza, AIA, Megan Tahboub, Vidushani Jayalal, Landry Randriamondroso
#sharedstreet by Ayers Saint Gross
Open Baltimore...Safe Baltimore by Dennis R. Nola, PLA, ASLA, Xiaojin Ren, Bridget Stokes
No Vacancy by PI.KL
Rock This Block by PORT
Fells Forward Live + Outside by BCT Design Group and Fells Point Main Street
Be Social. Be Safe. Bmore. by Novak Birch
The Market by Design Collective
The Adapting Gallery by Adan Ramos, Will Deutsch, and Alvaro Ramos
Healthy and Hugge Huts by Hello Happy
Stylist in a Box by Chris Odusanya
The Pop Up Cafe by JMT Community Planning Group
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THE DESIGN FOR DISTANCING PROJECT
The design concept competition.
What are smart ways for people to line up for carry-out, attend farmer’s markets, or wait outside of salons, laundromats, and banks?
With social distancing in mind and using the best practices from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the best innovative solutions will receive $50,000 in stipends to expand the concept.
Applications closed!
The ultimate guidebook to distancing.
Selected designs will be included in the Design For Distancing Guidebook, a free, online resource. Businesses, cities, and citizens around the world can all look here for inspiration on how to improve their own spaces.
Implementation!
Over a dozen Baltimore City Districts will enjoy custom solutions pulled from the Guidebook. Design-build teams will be awarded a $10,000 design stipend to work with local main streets to implement plans this summer. Applications now closed.
AN INITIATIVE BY
“In Baltimore, the streets, sidewalks, and stoops are important gathering spaces, and in many ways the intersection of our lives. Recapturing these areas is critical to our reopening and economic recovery.”
—Mayor of Baltimore, Bernard “Jack” Young
“We are looking for creative design submissions from local agencies and freelancers. These concepts will then be built in Baltimore and shared with others around the world to borrow from in order to create their own practical solutions”
— Jennifer Goold, Executive Director of the Neighborhood Design Center
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