After reading Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments by David Gissen, I have begun to understand the periphery of the city. How the edge condition that speaks to the natural landscape, that is at times uncontrollable and unwanted, begins to interact with the man-made controlled cityscape. At times this area is desolate and unkempt due to these factors and dissimilarities.
I think this edge condition would be the perfect site for my thesis to begin to shape a more cohesive space between the two very differing areas. Like I mentioned earlier, there are both passive and active ways of scaping to occur. Puddles, mud, dust, weeds and some animal life, as mentioned by Gissen, begin to interact with the unused city edges on their own. Yet, an active approach, that doesn't simply let the edges fall apart or decay could be utilized. As I suggested in my earlier work, the grid, mass and infrastructure of the cityscape, as well as the vegetation, hydrology and topography of the natural landscape could begin to develop a new scaping. Something that doesn't just redefine a man-made versus natural barrier, but one that bridges the two into a unified scaping that begins to speak to a new usable and occupied space.
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