I think your diagrams are really clear and help support your thesis of interweaving natural and cityscapes. I think this drawing could be taken much further to delve deeper into the ordering systems which exist in both landscapes. I see lots of potential on an urban design scale, but I'm interested to see what this type of drawing would do to space at a human scale.
These images are very provocative. I think for your project, the site you choose will be very important. Since your goal is to take a "dying" city and inject it with nature, it would be useful to research what each of the cities you have identified looked like before they were developed. You could try to note the ecosystems that were once present in that area and try to focus on those so your project is unique to the place.
Also, it will be important to see if the people currently living in this city would support your green vision. It is often the case that the people living in a declining city are of a lower income and could feel isolated and gentrified by a change this radical, unless they are interested and see the benefits on an individual scale as well. Are there already green movements in these cities or how do you help educate them?
Its very interesting to me how the vertical nature of the city visible in the massing of the cityscape translates into a very horizontal planar character in the infrastructure grid diagram. There is a hint of that horizontal nature in the topography landscape as well. I think one of the interesting things that you could experiment with is how a city works in a vertical topography? Perhaps the idea of Pittsburgh, or maybe in San Francisco?
I think your diagrams are really clear and help support your thesis of interweaving natural and cityscapes. I think this drawing could be taken much further to delve deeper into the ordering systems which exist in both landscapes. I see lots of potential on an urban design scale, but I'm interested to see what this type of drawing would do to space at a human scale.
ReplyDeleteThese images are very provocative. I think for your project, the site you choose will be very important. Since your goal is to take a "dying" city and inject it with nature, it would be useful to research what each of the cities you have identified looked like before they were developed. You could try to note the ecosystems that were once present in that area and try to focus on those so your project is unique to the place.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it will be important to see if the people currently living in this city would support your green vision. It is often the case that the people living in a declining city are of a lower income and could feel isolated and gentrified by a change this radical, unless they are interested and see the benefits on an individual scale as well. Are there already green movements in these cities or how do you help educate them?
Its very interesting to me how the vertical nature of the city visible in the massing of the cityscape translates into a very horizontal planar character in the infrastructure grid diagram. There is a hint of that horizontal nature in the topography landscape as well. I think one of the interesting things that you could experiment with is how a city works in a vertical topography? Perhaps the idea of Pittsburgh, or maybe in San Francisco?
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