av hill initiative

AV Hill Initiative Designing for Fleets of Shared Automated Vehicles

Research Studio, Fall 2017 under Professor Lucia Phinney

The AV Hill Initiative is a spatial programming proposal designed to build a more cohesive community for Charlottesville, Virginia by simultaneously providing various economic opportunities for underprivileged demographics. In preparing for the inevitable implementation of mass automated vehicle (AV) systems, the initiative seeks to conduct social change through a juxtaposition between culture and technology.

*Socioeconomic Barriers - Greater Charlottesville*

*Parking Lot Distribution - Downtown Charlottesville*

The program seeks to alleviate these social disparities in four parts: providing educational culinary workshops for Charlottesville immigrants, creating a scalable business mode of entries to maximize the business market, developing a rentable AV market, and promoting a pedestrian village that connects university students with the local community.

By using cuisine as a resource to bring civic engagement between communities, we are capable of bringing a more intimate and uplifting center for an entire populous.

Expanding Economic Scales to EntryA hinderence in seeking alternative forms of employment is the high barrier of entry for a new job field. In order to fix this concern, the site should provide various economic scales to incorporate a broader demogr… — **Expanding Economic Scales to Entry**
A hinderence in seeking alternative forms of employment is the high barrier of entry for a new job field. In order to fix this concern, the site should provide various economic scales to incorporate a broader demographic range.

Building Vocational KnowledgeUtilizing existing buildings or constructing new ones, vocational workshops can be conducted in order to build a new workforce centered around new skills. — **Building Vocational Knowledge**
Utilizing existing buildings or constructing new ones, vocational workshops can be conducted in order to build a new workforce centered around new skills.

Expanding Economic Scales to EntryGiven the diminishing importance of parking lots with the implementation of AV’s, a new market would generate in which private owners of AV’s can rent their car to those lower economic statuses, allowing them to rel… — **Expanding Economic Scales to Entry**
Given the diminishing importance of parking lots with the implementation of AV’s, a new market would generate in which private owners of AV’s can rent their car to those lower economic statuses, allowing them to reliably travel to new job centers.

Diversifying StakeholdersBy picking sites located primarily around existing mass parking lots, these centers can expand into pedestrian villages, allowing for increased exposure and interaction between various socioeconomic classes. — **Diversifying Stakeholders**
By picking sites located primarily around existing mass parking lots, these centers can expand into pedestrian villages, allowing for increased exposure and interaction between various socioeconomic classes.

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