Ruzzo presents renderings and gabion wall flood design
Ruzzo shows renderings of the building in context, including the setback and greenscape. He describes a gabion wall system for the parking level that allows water and air movement, and a knockout panel for future DOT grade changes.
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So here we can see the building within context.
The Lindenwood Diner development is the red and dark brown, blackish charcoal building that you're seeing to our right.
We're the white building right in the center of the screen.
As you can see, we are set back from the street, and we propose quite a bit of greenscape all around.
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This is our corner and lobby entrance on 79th Street.
As you can see, the grade slightly dips as we go all the way around the building.
And you'll note that that sixth floor feels a little bit more de minimis from the street because it's set back.
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Here you're seeing the driveway entrance along Sapphire, and you'll see that big blank wall right above it.
Sapphire would be raised by as much as 10 feet, so essentially the new grade one day would be at relatively the height of the top of the door right now, the garage door that you can see on the left.
So what that allows us to do is we'll have a knockout panel planned into the building as it's constructed, and when DOT raises the streets, we'll just raise the door into a panel that's already designed to be removed so that
the building is designed to be future-proofed for DOT to be able to do its work.
What you're seeing on the ground floor there is a gabion wall system.
That is actually walls that are used in highway design.
It's basically chicken wire or steel wire with boulders inside of it.
It creates a fully permeable envelope that allows water to freely move into and out of the building because we are in a flood zone, as well as providing for a very natural environment.
Air can also come in and out, and that is a parking level, so it's always nice to be able to have some breeze and be able to breathe in there.
When the grade is raised, we would simply pour a concrete wall, a foundation wall, behind the gabion wall system, and then that creates our bathtub, if you will, or our sealed cellar.
All of this can be done, as I said, without taking the building out of service at all.
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