Typology: Higher Education
Program: Teaching Hospital, Research Center, 5 Colleges, Support Bldgs.
Services: Planning, Urban Design, Architecture
Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
Size: 3.9 million square feet of development
Status: Stage 1 (Phases 1 to 3) [COMPLETED]; Stage 2 (Phases 1 to 3) [ON-GOING]; Stage 3 (Phases 1 & 2) [YET TO COMMENCE]
The Kuwait University Health Science Campus (HSC) is located on the West side of the Main Campus. It is an integral part of the Sabah Al-Salem University City but functionally it is an independent self-supporting entity. HSC includes five medical colleges, research laboratories, research center, teaching hospital and clinics, medical support facilities, hospital staff housing, along with other academic, administrative and services support facilities. It has its own Central Utility Plant (CUP) with utility distribution tunnels to supply utilities to all the buildings and the facilities in the HSC. The utility Tunnels of HSC and Main Campus are to be interconnected to ensure efficient distribution of utilities to all buildings within the University City.
The proposed project for the Health Sciences Campus (HSC) is an essential component of the Sabah Al Salem University City- Kuwait University (SSUC) campus. As the leading higher education and research institution in the country, the institutional mission of Kuwait University is to educate future leaders with an awareness of both national and future needs of the region. It is to be a state of the art campus for medical education and care. The pedagogies, clinical approaches and procedures, and technologies will reflect an institution that is future thinking.
Visit Kuwait University Website: http://ssuc.ku.edu.kw/project/health-sciences-center-campus/
AYO YUSUF: Member of the Senior Leadership and Management team creatively managing Stage 1 of the project / Senior Associate, Perkins Eastman [No Involvement in Stages 2 & 3]
PERKINS EASTMAN: Lead of the 5 Member Perkins Eastman Consortium [Perkins Eastman; Ennead Architects; ARUP; Ted Jacob Engineering Group; and Dar Al Jazeera Consultants]
Typology: Higher Education
Program: 400-bed Residential Dormitory; Retail; Parking Garage
Services: Planning, Urban Design, Architecture
Location: Newark, NJ
Size: 170,000sf
Status: Construction Scheduled for Completion 2020
The Rutgers University-Newark Honors Living Learning Community’s 2.2-acre urban infill site occupies a full city block in Downtown Newark with multiple outparcels, and is part of RU-N’s ongoing initiative to engage the Downtown Newark community and the culmination of a fifteen year effort to execute the New Newark Plan. Developed through a public-private partnership with RBH Group, the project provides 400 beds accommodating a diversity of room and suite configurations to accommodate the diversity of the HLLC student body and a robust program of spaces to support the HLLC’s focus on students who have taken non-traditional paths to higher education (e.g. single mothers, returning vets, etc.). Sustainable landscape and street-scape improvements are integral to the creation of an exemplary new educational community in Newark.
This new 170,000 sf development includes four stories of residential dormitories over approximately 35,000 sf of retail in addition to a multi-level parking garage. This is a building that reflects the mission, identity, and uniqueness of the Rutgers HLLC Program. With a focus on creating a safe, healthy, supportive environment for students, faculty, and staff, flexibility of spaces is critical. The project is organized around three wings unified by a social spine or connector running the length of the building, parallel to New Street, from Halsey to Washington streets. This social spine creates an identity for the building on the interior and spaces along the spine will feel unique and orient the students and staff. The same principle follows on the exterior, where this concept is reinforced by differentiating the building material.
AYO YUSUF: Urban Designer / Associate, Perkins Eastman
- Actively involved in the proposal, concept design, design development, and schematic design stages.
- Plan development and Building elevation development.
- Project programming and design presentations to Client Steering Committee and Student Constituency.
PERKINS EASTMAN: Firm and Architect of Record
Typology: Resilience Planning
Program: Community Rebuilding Plans
Services: Planning, Urban Design
Location:
East and South Shores - Staten Island
Gravesend and Bensonhurst - Brooklyn
The Idlewild Watershed Communities - Queens
East Rockaway and Bay Park - Long Island
The Five Towns - Long Island
South Valley Stream - Long Island
Size: Varies
Status: Implementation On-going
Awards:
2014 American Planning Association/NY Metro Chapter Meritorious Achievement Award
2014 New York Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery Rising to the Top Awards:
- Best use of Green Infrastructure [South Valley Stream NYRCR Plan]
- Best Approach to Resilient Economic Growth [Staten Island NYRCR Plan]
2016 New York Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery Rising to the Top Awards:
- Best Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations [Gravesend/Bensonhurst NYRCR Plan]
Working with the NY Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery, Perkins Eastman led a multidisciplinary team on six community rebuilding planning efforts covering over twenty different communities, as part of the NY Rising Community Reconstruction (NYRCR) program. These plans addressed many of the most impacted communities in the NY Metropolitan area, including the East and South Shores of Staten Island, eight communities along the South Shore of Nassau County, the South Brooklyn waterfront, and the Idlewild Watershed Communities, together identifying and scoping over $70 million in capital projects. Project goals included identifying and building community consensus around a set of innovative, but implementable projects to position the communities for financeable rebuilding & resilience projects. The plans addressed short and medium term needs for post-sandy recovery, and long term plans for improving each community’s resilience in the face of climate change and rising sea levels. Each plan encompassed proposals addressing coastal defense, green infrastructure, economic development, and community capacity building.
The team’s NYRCR Plans for South Valley Stream, the East and South Shores of Staten Island, and the Gravesend and Bensonhurst communities were recognized by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery with 3 (out of 11) “Rising to the Top” awards for Best Use of Green Infrastructure, Best Approach to Resilient Economic Development, and Best Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations, respectively. Together, the awards helped secure a total of $7 million additional funding to implement projects listed in the NYRCR plans for these communities.
AYO YUSUF: Project Manager & Urban Designer / Associate, Perkins Eastman
PERKINS EASTMAN: Multidisciplinary Team Lead [Perkins Eastman; BFJ Planning; Urbanomics; The Louis Berger Group; Fitzgerald & Halliday; Real Estate Solutions Group; 4Ward Planning; Howard Stein Hudson; Rhodeside & Harwell; Dland Studio; John Waters; VJ Associates; PACO Group]
Typology: Waterfront + Mixed-Use Development
Program: Commercial Office Space, Retail, Marina, Shipping Exchange and Trading Hall
Services: Planning, Urban Design, Architecture
Location: Shanghai, China
Size: 2,700,000 sf / 255,000 sm
Status: Completed 2014
Green Certification: LEED Gold, China 3-Star Rating, BREEAM Excellent Certifications
Awards:
AIA Hong Kong, Merit Award for Urban Design (2015)
AIA Hong Kong, Sustainable Design Award (2015)
MIPIM Asia Awards, Best Urban Regeneration Project: Silver Award (2015)
Asia Pacific Property Awards, Highly Commended: Office Architecture in China (2015)
Huishan North Bund project was envisioned, and has materialized, as the catalyst for the ongoing transformation of Shanghai’s Huang Pu River waterfront into a post-industrial era and the anchor for the redevelopment of the City’s long neglected port district. The North Bund has become Shanghai’s next great place - reuniting citizens with their waterfront that had been closed to the public for over two centuries - by means of a public plaza, esplanade, underground retail concourse, access to multiple modes of public transit, and a 3-acre (1.2-hectare) marina that serves as the project’s centerpiece.
Emerging from the site design and masterplan, the development program also includes commercial office space, Shanghai’s new shipping exchange and trading hall, retail, and parking – organized as a group of six buildings providing a dynamic contribution to the changing skyline along the waterfront.
The project has achieved several distinctions for its comprehensive and thoughtful sustainable design approach and implemented strategies. Notably, the 12,000 m2 marina is the District Energy System’s source for heat rejection and a storm water reservoir. As river water flows in and out of the marina, it functions as a heat sink, serving a submerged HVAC central plant and pump room that utilize the cold river water for heat rejection from the buildings – obviating the need for cooling towers; supplemental cooling is provided through ice-making from captured rain water. The marina also creates a beneficial micro-climate for the surrounding plaza through evaporative cooling in warm months.
All buildings include accessible green roofs, rainwater harvesting, ice storage, greywater recycling, water-conserving fixtures, operable windows, raised floor, and a centralized Building Automation System. These features, together with convenient access to multiple modes of transit (ferry, two subway lines, bus), set the benchmark in China for a comprehensive sustainable design program on a large scale.
AYO YUSUF: Member of Design Team / Associate, Perkins Eastman
- Section details and overall building sections development for 2 out of the 6 buildings [B12 and B17].
- Contributed to skin package, exterior details and retail studies development for Building [B16].
PERKINS EASTMAN: Firm of Record
Typology: Research Campus Planning
Program: Live-Learn-Work Community, Retail,
Services: Urban Design
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Size: 300 Acres
Status: Planning Completed 2016
The Research Triangle Park (RTP) Town Center, is a bold new vision that repositions the RTP as the “work place of the future”. This plan proposes an exciting new live-work-shop-play environment that is more sustainable and attractive to a new generation of workforce amongst the RTP companies and the three Universities associated with the campus. While visionary and transformative in its mission, the plan is also pragmatic and market driven.
The new Central District (especially the new RTP Village) is a “MADE FOR WALKING” plan that encourages collaboration and dynamic work environments. This new workplace is designed to include more uses, to be occupied over more hours, in more flexible and more varied environments. Walkability is the measure. The Central District is as much about the outdoors as it is buildings. Every conceivable outdoor gathering space has been included in the plan. From a very large natural setting, to small urban spaces to the smallest alleys and nooks.
The Village is designed to emphasize the pedestrian (while allowing for the convenience of slow moving vehicles). The Village is a system of streets that are made small and narrow. The Village includes lots of short blocks with many small and easy to cross intersections.
Nature has always been a significant part of the landscape-dominated, quiet, clean, suburban office park environment at RTP. The design leverages this by making nature and landscape become a central theme. A new urban park at the center of the proposed new development becomes the gateway to a regional park system that runs through all 7,000 acres of RTP, connecting all the RTP companies via trails and bikeways.
AYO YUSUF: Junior Urban Designer / Associate, Perkins Eastman
- Client and consultant team coordination; Planning, analysis, and Presentation material development
PERKINS EASTMAN: Firm of Record
Typology: Transit Oriented Development
Program: Residential; Retail; Train Station Connections
Services: Urban Design, Architecture
Location: Doha, Qatar
Size: 97,000sm
Status: In-Progress
The Qatar Rail Development project aims to leverage Qatar’s significant investment in a state-of-the-art rail network (currently under construction), and to assist in developing the city of Doha through the implementation of robust urban developments centered around each of the rail stations. The planned national network will provide a fully integrated rail system in Qatar, while in and around Doha the network will serve both the central city and surrounding areas. These infrastructure investments, along with the series of new developments in Doha, present unique opportunities for the city in the creation of attractive and desirable places for living, working, and recreation, while also serving as new generators for social and economic development. The newly developed neighborhoods and their immediate links to transit will bolster the growing nation, effectively promoting health and prosperity for the Qatari populace.
The Al Mansoura Development Site has great potential for providing an updated residential-oriented product for an existing market, and is poised to become a prominent and visible new neighborhood in the greater Doha City plan. The proposed new development in the Al Mansoura district is anticipated to be more adaptive and sensitive to the changing economics of Doha, and aims to be a world-class destination in its own right, attracting an array of people from across the economic spectrum. The project aspires to attract increasingly educated technical and professional class to move to this district, helping to drive the local economy by developing art and cultural institutions, and building upon the existing construction-oriented nature of the neighborhood. The guiding principles for the design organized by the following: 1) A focus on Development of highest and best uses; 2) A focus on Transit supported by new connections; 3) A focus on Place Making that enhances the public realm.
The design of both the buildings and public spaces is shaped by an understanding of the local climate and sustainability strategies, including the creation of comfortable outdoor environments and the use of screens that also draw upon Qatari heritage.
AYO YUSUF: Project Manager / Associate, Perkins Eastman
- Planning, evaluation, and execution of Project Objectives during the concept design and design development stages – and prior to taking on Leadership Role on KUHSC Project.
PERKINS EASTMAN: Provided Architectural Design Consultancy under the ECG – TYPSA Joint Venture.
Typology: Resilience Planning
Program: Urban Park, Park Building with Connected Pavilions
Services: Planning and Urban Design
Location: New York, NY
Size: 3 Acres
Status: Planning Completed 2017
The Wagner Park Resilience Study project included a comprehensive assessment of the Robert F. Wagner Park (the “Park”) and the Wagner Park Pavilion (the “Pavilion”) (the Park and Pavilion, together, the “WP Site”); identifying the WP Site’s susceptibility to coastal flooding and other concerns regarding the WP Site’s condition and/or performance. The Wagner Park study area occupies a location that is one of the most vulnerable in Lower Manhattan to tidal inundation, including portions of Wagner Park and Pier A Plaza, which are located at elevations which make them particularly vulnerable to storm surge.
The study area also occupies a pivotal location, between the larger Battery Park City perimeter resiliency concept that begins just north of Wagner Park (primarily utilizing existing building faces and garden walls as the basis of a new storm barrier), and the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency protection line as it approaches the study area from the east.
The resiliency concept for Wagner Park relies on both deployable barriers and a new pavilion designed to function as a barrier against storm surge. The combination of the two systems forms a continuous barrier from First Place to State Street. The concept also provides added pedestrian and sustainability benefits in the provision of a continuous/connected esplanade and a new proposed wetlands feature respectively.
AYO YUSUF: Urban Designer / Associate, Perkins Eastman
PERKINS EASTMAN: Firm of Record
Typology: Waterfront + Mixed-Use Development
Program: Commercial Office Space, Residential, Retail, Marina + Commercial Harbor
Services: Planning, Urban Design
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Size: 100 Acres and 4,356,000 sf of development
Status: Planning Completed in 2011
The Cleveland Waterfront Vision Plan was developed with the strategy based on the continuation of Cleveland’s waterfront redevelopment history that builds upon the extraordinary accomplishments the City already had in place, including North Coast Harbor, Cleveland Browns’ Stadium, two major museums, and public transit.
The Master Plan creates a dense, walkable, mixed-use urban fabric with practical, market-driven development parcels. This fabric is mapped onto a highly varied grid of streets and blocks. All the streets are pedestrian oriented but auto convenient to and from all points on the site. The plan is based on traffic calming principles such that streets are short, narrow, irregular and one way in order to discourage both volume and speed of cars. All the streets are shared uses except at the water’s edge, where the streets can be programmed to be pedestrian only at certain times. The plan establishes three walkable neighborhood districts, all convenient to existing Light Rail transit stations and bus service: the Harbor District, the Pier District, and the Park River District.
A unique characteristic of the plan is its focus on the water plan as much as on the land plan, thus integrating land and water activities. The majority of maritime activities continue at the Eastern edge of the site, building upon the existing and planned expansion of maritime activities, especially at the transient marinas on East 9th street.
The Master Plan is market driven, thus organized as a series of incremental, coordinated, buildable phases, each of which is complete in itself, and helps create opportunities and value for the next phase. Flexibility to respond to changes in the market place is addressed by allowing any and all uses to be developed on an incremental basis. Private development blocks will be timed to coincide with adjacent public infrastructure, all together ensuring public benefits while guaranteeing public services for private buildings.
AYO YUSUF: Junior Designer, Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects (EE&K)
- Upon successful delivery of the vision, was a member of the team that developed the preferred plan for Phase 1 of the Vision Plan including project designer responsibility for two additional project sites highlighted in the overall Vision Plan.
PERKINS EASTMAN [via Merger with EE&K]: Firm of Record
Typology: Healthcare
Program: Park; Children’s Hospital; Public Realm Design
Services: Urban Design, Hospital + Medical Planning, Architecture
Location: Brookhaven, GA
Size: 35 Acres / 14 Hectares
Status: Planning Completed 2015
The master plan draws upon the age-old link between nature and healthcare, and Children’s own history of gardens, to create a unique new vision of “Healthcare in a Park”, at their 35-acre Office Park site in Brookhaven, GA. The plan combines all potential open spaces into a single 4-acre park in the center as a shared resource, enhancing the experience of walking from one part of the site to the other through a park.
The plan emphasizes the park as a “place for kids,” where kids design rules dominate. This includes no straight lines, no symmetry, lots of variety without repetition, unpredictable and full of surprise, smaller scaled buildings, informal settings, and mostly un-adult like.
All buildings on the park relate to the park in scale and uses, animating the park edges. One-to three-stories tall, the buildings along the park’s edges are designed as pavilions that frame the entrance and arrival views. Pavilions are made transparent to integrate the inside with the outdoors.
The ground level integrates architecture and interior design with the exterior landscape creating a seamless guest experience that is focused on kids and parents. Ground level uses on the park include common facilities that are shared amongst all future buildings in the park. Designed and scaled as a place for kids and their parents, courtyards facing the central park provide a transition space between the auto arrival and the building interiors.
The plan emphasizes place-making by focusing on the public realm. A variety of landscaped open spaces enhance the arrival sequence and set the stage for a walkable medical district.
AYO YUSUF: Junior Urban Designer + Junior Project Manager / Associate, Perkins Eastman
PERKINS EASTMAN: Contract Awardee
