2. 5TH YEAR THESIS : RESEARCH/SITE SELECTION
ART EDUCATION PAINT SURVEY
Current Amount of
Arts Education
Amount of Student
Involvement in Arts
Need for More
Arts Education
Highland
Park
Hamtramck
Detroit
Windsor
Highland
Park
Hamtramck
Detroit
Windsor
Highland
Park
Hamtramck
Detroit
Windsor
High Population
Density
Low Income
Housholds
High Density
of Students
DETROIT SITE SELECTION GIS MAPPING
100’ 500’
OaklandAve.
California St.
Oakland Park Blvd.
Massachusetts St.
Rhode Island St.
Colorado St.
McLean St.
Farrand Park
E Buena Vista St.
Winona St.
BrushSt.
OaklandParkBlvd.
OaklandParkCt.
Connecticut Ave.
ParkCt.
Woodland St.
GrandHavenSt.
Commor St.
ChrystlerFwy
Carpenter Ave.
DyarSt.
GrandHavenSt.
SelfridgeSt.
OklahomaSt.
NegalSt.
Halleck St.
McLean St.
ChrystlerServiceDr.
Mead St.
GreeleySt.
12600 Oakland Ave.
Highland Park, MI
SITE
Railroad
BusRoute
94% of U.S. public elementary schools offer
instruction in music.
83% of U.S. public elementary schools offer
instruction in the visual arts.
4% of U.S. public elementary schools offer
instruction in theater. *down from 20% in 2000
3% of U.S. public elementary schools offer
instruction in dance.
Music 94%
Visual Arts 83%
Theater 4%
Dance 3%
91% of U.S. public secondary schools offer
instruction in music.
89% of U.S. public secondary schools offer
instruction in visual arts.
45% of U.S. public secondary schools offer
instruction in theater.
12% of U.S. public secondary schools offer
instruction in dance.
Music 91%
Visual Arts 89%
Theater 45%
Dance 12%
Highland
Park Hamtramck
Detroit
Highland
Park
Hamtramck
Site
Highland Park
Hamtramck
ART EDUCATION RESEARCH
3. 5TH YEAR THESIS : DESIGN IN-PROGRESS
National Library of France, Paris
Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Tropical Home, Singapore
10’ 30’
Faculty
Housing
Oakland Ave.
N
DETROIT ARTS CENTER
5. CYRILMAGNINSTREET--NamedafterCyrilMagnin,a
prominentSanFranciscobusinessmanandDemo-
craticPartypowerbroker,involvedinmany
localculturalandpoliticalinstitutions.
POWELLSTREET—SaidtobenamedafterDoctorPowell
oftheUnitedStatessloopofwarWarren,CaptainHull.
O’FARRELL STREET—After Jasper O’Farrell, a civil engineer, who made the first survey of the city under United States authority, and mapped the streets
and laid out the plan of the fifty and most of the hundred vara lots.
STOCKTONSTREET—AfterCommodoreRichardF.Stockton
oftheUnitedStatesnavy.TheUnitedStatesflagwasraisedat
MontereyJuly7,1846.StocktonarrivedatMontereyAugust
15,1846,andassumedcommand,assuccessorofCommo-
doreSloat,ofalltheUnitedStatesforcesonshoreaswellas
atsea.
ELLIS STREET—After A.J. Ellis, a prominent business man for many years. He was a member of the Ayuntamiento, or Town Council, of 1849-50, and a member of
the convention that framed the State constitution in September, 1849, and once a member of the State Legislature.
MASONSTREET—AfterGeneralRichardB.Mason,onetimecolonel
oftheFirstUnitedStatesDragoons.HecommandedtheUnitedStates
troopsinCaliforniaduringaportionoftheMexicanWar.May3,1847,he
becamethefourthMilitaryGovernorofCalifornia,whileGeneralH.W.Hal-
enacaptain,becameSecretaryofStateunderhim.
EDDY STREET—After William M.
Eddy who was elected City Survey-
or by the Ayuntamiento, or Town
Council, in 1850. He completed the
survey of the city between Larkin
and Ninth streets and the bay.
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4TH YEAR STUDIO SPRING 2015 | SITE STUDY