Festival Street

Columbia GSAPP ADV 6

Spring 2020
Studio Critic: Jing Liu

In collaboration with Audrey Dandenault, Faisal Alohali, Lu Liu

Our proposal takes the opportunity to reveal the unspoken social contract of public space, envisioning a new collective constitution performing on multiple simultaneous scales: from the body to the urban object, from the building to the streetscape. Our site observations led us to find opportunities to frame vernacular interactions on the street, encouraging participation, interaction, and pleasure. 

Our ambition for the project is to engage with the existing urban fabric, embracing the different systems of sharing already in motion on the site. Weaving informal and formal economies, our project situates itself in the tension emerging from the co-existence of the formal protocols of street occupation (regulation, licensing, etc. ) and the popular adoption and use of the space (causal street vendors, loitering, etc. ).