Audi Field - Parcel B Washington, DC
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Urban Design
Public Engagement
People Involved
Tim Bragan
Lyn Wenzel
Gaelle Gourmelon
Erin Schregardus
Roberta Chu
A mixed-use project brings street-level public space improvements, including a curbless retail streetscape, a half-acre park, and block-long linear pocket park, to DC United's home stadium at Audi Field.
The Audi Field - Parcel B project is located immediately adjacent to Audi Field, Washington DC’s major league soccer stadium, in Southwest DC’s rapidly-developing Buzzard Point neighborhood. Developed by Hoffman and Associates in partnership with DC United, the mixed-use project includes 455 residential and senior affordable housing units, office space, and extensive retail program.
The landscape scope includes over an acre of street-level public space improvements, including a curbless retail streetscape, a half-acre publicly-accessible park space, improvements to the entry plaza to Audi Field, and a block-long linear pocket park. Improvements on the building itself include several residential amenity terraces, an outdoor office terrace, and extensive green roof planting.
The design approach for the project emerged from an understanding of Buzzard Point’s history as perhaps DC’s most unique and uncharacteristic district: a place at the confluence of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, where natural processes once verged on some of the city’s last-remaining areas of industrial activity. The concept for the landscape draws inspiration from the character of Buzzard Point and materializes as a series of loosely organic bands of planting and concrete paving. The texture and geometry of these informal elements, along with their interaction with each other and the building and surrounding context, harkens back to and celebrates Buzzard Point’s unique character.
