Boundaries in Movement: Designing for an adaptable 21st-century multi-family residential landscape
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2018-08-25
Authors
Chen, Lin (Flora)
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Abstract
In our rapidly densifying urban environment, diversifying
family types, and evolving urban demographics, it is of great
value to reconsider ways to design residential landscapes that
are adaptable to natural and cultural changes. This project
interprets Gilles Clément’s one approach—The Planetary
Garden, and two theories—The Garden in Movement and
The Third Landscape, to develop design strategies that
create interconnected spaces with a gradient of scales and
functions. These strategies were tested on Parkmerced, a
multi-family residential community located in San Francisco,
California, completed in 1951. Four proposed design
elements create flexible boundaries, permeable surfaces,
interconnected pathways, and dynamic vegetation that
could easily be altered and accommodate for future change.
Parkmerced is on the verge of a long-term redevelopment
and this project proposes an alternative approach that would
retrofit a 20th-century modernist landscape into a culturally
and environmentally adaptable 21st-century urban residential
landscape.
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Examining committee chair: Mark Eischeid