River Pan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by my brother, Liam.
Check out his thesis:
A Post-Industrial Parkscape In Pittsburgh
Through “Latent Infrastructures” I speculate on the changing role of ecology and infrastructure in Pittsburgh. The city’s economy has shifted from that of a mecca of industrial production to a contemporary service model, and our constructed response to the terrain we inhabit must also change accordingly. My project seeks to reactivate the Two Mile Run valley through a variety of landscape strategies providing for greater access and an improved reading of the historical and topographical conditions of the site. The project builds from an understanding of patterns of infrastructural and urban development characteristic of Pittsburgh, but also injects new concepts to develop a landscape that supports varying levels of engagement. This piece of landscape infrastructure will fill a gap in the fabric of the city, creating a coherent natural/artificial environment and elucidating latent landscape strategies. The area is invigorated through a set of infrastructural components that provide physical and metaphysical access to the forgotten valley. Such an holistic concept of the relationship between the city and nature will provide fertile ground for the growth of a populace that is prepared to repair our fractured relationship with the Earth.
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