RE-Thinking the Urban Street Edge

The ADAPTABLE STREET EDGE 

A really creative example, placing 3rd in the Designing for Adaptable Futures competition. I went looking for an example like this to follow on from my previous post about vertical suburbs and lifting street-spaces. 

Adaptable Street uses the existing infrastructure that every city has – streets.  The project proposes exploiting this space with myriad programmed uses by building them up to create “thick streets” with various layers and a mix of uses built in to different sections.  The extensive networks of our cities gives this project potential to transform linearly, seasonally and over time (Jaque, 2012).




Reference: 

Jaque, P. & Rousseau, M. (2012). Designing for Adaptable Futures: Adaptable Street Edge. Retrieved from http://www.archdaily.com/252836/designing-for-adaptable-futures-winners-announced/