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Regaining Topography

Open a vista to Regain Topography

Sign Park on a covered bridge

Cantilevered Walk over Vehicle Riverbank

Observations on existing topography

Urban Trail network on Ground Terrain

Plan a Zoning map based on Rooftop Terrain

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Community originated redevelopment proposal to the City

studio a/b was invited to participate in the design proposal on Hell’s Kitchen South (between 34th and 42nd Streets, west of Eighth Avenue).

Our design introduced a network of thematic trails that uncovered the drama and beauty of the site’s topography. Infrastructure for the trails provided missing links between isolated pockets of housings. Minimal, realizable constructions corresponding to the trails, such as planted walkways, new pocket parks, the redesign of street fences, open views, and the introduction of traffic calming on one critical block, offered friendlier experiences of environment. Laying experiential trails overlay reached a Zoning Map proposal.

PUBLICATION:

Hell’s Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, 2002

JAE, 5/2001

PLACES, Vol. 13:3, 2000;

METROPOLIS, Feb./Mar. 2000

OCULUS, AIA New York, 1/2000

EXHIBITION:

Hell’s Kitchen South, Developing Strategies, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY, 2000