abandoned lots and homes lie vacant in downtown Baltimore. this project sees this unused space not as a blight on the city, but as an opportunity to implement a finer grained network of lightweight green infrastructure that weaves through the existing urban fabric
1 - large green spaces surround downtown Baltimore and are currently poorly connected
2 - if the partially vacant Charles/North neighborhood was seen as a catalyst point for an expanding network of fine grained and productive green spaces, how would that change Baltimore's connectivity diagram?
3 - the vacant spaces of the city host green infrastructures and fine grained public spaces, changing the Baltimore's ecological connectivity diagram from one of large isolated islands, to one of a varried ecological network expanding across the city
new logic of lightweight scaffold infrastructure weaves throughout the existing urban fabric
4 block infrastructural scaffolding infill : scaffolding occupies southern exposures, corners, and courtyard edges while connecting farm, water, and circulation infrastructures
prototypical street corner : axonometric systems sketch
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the systems model :
the topside : scaffolding infrastructure, water harvesting row houses connect to cisterns below, red augmented pedestrian path network, socio-economic nodes (hardware)
underground cistern network
the underside : cisterns + triangulated connectivity diagram base
