This project is placed in Baltimore and aims to transform strategic intersections in the neighbourhoods at greenmount avenue attempting to bridge the racial and class divide along the avenue. Through smaller interventions within the neighbourhoods it hopes to enable community members to lay claim to abandoned and vacant land. For the purpose of this project, we look at four stakeholders, Ms Bell, Annie, Councilman Stokes and Akilah, that each use the vacant property application to lead the transformation of four nodes along the avenue. Open space is no longer looked at as merely external land, but also the interior of buildings. It looks at Public space as a repository of abandoned buildings, land, existing gardens, and terraces. In a dense urban environment, where large scale open space is difficult to carve out, we create smaller contiguous vegetated areas that together become a ‘forested urban’ within which buildings lie scattered.
Guide: Rafi Segal
2021