Margins on the Motorway:
Registering Mobility in the Urban Interstitial Landscape
2011 MLA Thesis
Registering Mobility in the Urban Interstitial Landscape
2011 MLA Thesis
Mobility is a key characteristic of modern life; yet, the infrastructures of mobility divide and fragment our cities even as they connect them. In doing so they leave behind neglected and underused spaces that ultimately detract from both urban vitality and social / cultural linkages.
This project in Albuquerque, NM, establishes a typology of the freeway void, and offers a methodology for revitalizing interstitial spaces as integral and meaningful elements of the modern city. These spaces, created in and around overpasses, on-ramps, rights-of-way and interchanges, have the potential to strengthen and seam this fractured landscape. The void, traditionally an urban form dismissed by dominant cultural forces as undesirable and unproductive, here becomes the site of latent social and environmental remediation practices.
This project in Albuquerque, NM, establishes a typology of the freeway void, and offers a methodology for revitalizing interstitial spaces as integral and meaningful elements of the modern city. These spaces, created in and around overpasses, on-ramps, rights-of-way and interchanges, have the potential to strengthen and seam this fractured landscape. The void, traditionally an urban form dismissed by dominant cultural forces as undesirable and unproductive, here becomes the site of latent social and environmental remediation practices.
