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NORTH PHILADELPHIA PEACE PARK

Ivy Bingaman | Abi asklar | Julie Pasion | Victoria Oakes

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North Philadelphia Peace Park


from Design 9 and 10 Architecture Studio with Prof. Max Zahniser
North Philadelphia Peace Park (NPPP) is a community garden that exists in what the community refers to as Peacetown, otherwise known as Sharswood, Philadelphia. The area started as a vacant lot overloaded with litter but has since been transformed into the home of a community garden that has become an ecocampus for giving back to the community. Since 2018 the park has given over 3,000 pounds of fresh produce to the community. NPPP however does far more than just provide food to the surrounding neighborhood. The park has become a sacred safe place for the community, that teaches communication, self-determination,  and how to work for transformation. The community has come together to work with the park to help solve issues like food availability, trash, poverty, and oppression. The community is strengthened through the culture that is created through NPPP, specifically black culture and using that to create resiliency for residents of all backgrounds.

​Our intention is to provide a design that allows them to expand that number and provide even more to the community or even sell excess produce for profit. NPPP has been healing, hosting, envisioning, integrating, and redistributing in Peacetown since it started in 2012, the goal of our project is to design and build infrastructure to support them in amplifying their power to heal.
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NPPP is a community organized group that aims to disrupt capitalism and create equality of food access, education and local economic exchange to invest in their larger community. This project is part of a larger mission to create a network of PeacePark and unify and uplift communities that have endured generational abuse and neglect from the powers that be.
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- Julie Pasion
The implementation of emergency housing to NPPP’s campus allows them to combat the displacement that community members continue to face due to PHA. It will serve as the first step of many to give the park all the resources they need to be able to meet all of their goals. The Solar Decathlon competition is allowing us to explore how a residential component could give NPPP another avenue for helping the community. Working on this project and with Peace Park, we have become a part of Peacetown. Following their rule of “teaching others what you know, and they will teach you”, we are giving them our skills and support by designing emergency housing  along with a block scale phase based design, and showing them the process while they are teaching us about change, healing, and how a community can fight back against destabilization efforts.  
​-Ivy Bingaman
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Why is creating change important to you?​
Creating change means visualizing a better, more functioning and compassionate reality than the one that exists today. it is both empowering to the communities we serve and to individual agency to stand up to inequality, racism, classism and capitalism to unify and heal our world.
- Julie Pasion
Julie Pasion
B. Architecture '22
​Visual Communication Design Minor
Listening to Goodie Bag by Still Woozy

Ivy Bingaman
B. Architecture '22 
Computational Design Minor
Listening to Shooting for the Moon by Ok Go
Victoria Oakes
B. Architecture '22
Sustainable Design Minor
Listening to Waiting Room by Fugazi
Abi Asklar
B. Architecture '22
Real Estate Development ​ Minor
Listening to Hoedown Throwdown
​by Hannah Montanna
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      • Repel Water Wear
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      • Architectural Foundations
    • ENVIRONMENTAL >
      • T2 Tower
      • Preservation in Dynamics
      • Seeds Swap
      • Parking as a Resource for Re-generation
      • Franklin Town Development
      • Language of Color
      • Pollinator Pals
    • CULTURAL >
      • The Inner-City Community Wellness Retreat
      • Your Interfaces
      • Deployable Structure
      • Sharswood
      • The Butterfly Effect
      • Woolworth Center
      • ​Architectural Photography
    • SHOWCASES >
      • Solar Decathlon - Kelly School
      • Reclaiming our Bodies
      • Solar Decathlon - NPPP
      • Emergence of a Modern Dwelling
      • Synesthesia
  • VOICES
    • INFLUENCE >
      • An Interview with Darby Mann & Benjamin Nardi
      • Mondo Materialis
      • Interaction Hub
      • Blossom Mentor Center
      • Reproductive Resource Hub
      • Transition Center for ASD
      • The Sandridge Parkway
      • Balnerium
      • Peacetown Kelley School
      • North Philadelphia Peace Park
      • Sacred Space
    • PASSION >
      • An Interview with Mariana, James, & Nicole
      • Oasis Beauty
      • Anthropocene Landscape
      • Eastwick Agricultural Center
      • The Tunnel
      • Pocono Cabins
      • Urban Planning Proposal
      • Ruby City Art Center
      • The Sel
      • Architectural Visualizations
      • Finding Beauty in the Commonplace
    • ADAPT >
      • An Interview with Allie Prescott
      • Cultural Coalescence Center
      • The Sanctuary
      • Exposure
      • West Oxford Housing Development
      • Foundation of Tolerance
      • Two Worlds Collide
      • NICU Prototype
      • Gateway Project
    • INNOVATE >
      • An Interview with Sal Armetta
      • Experimental Materials
      • Shared City
      • Center For Urban Water
      • Charettes At Fairmount Park
      • A Study on Open Wards
      • Luna Eco Resort
      • Summit
      • Urban Food Hub
      • Sheba City of Health
      • Solar Decathlon China '21
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