Viaducts
Type: Competition ProposalYear: 2015
In 2015 Vancouver City Council voted to demolish the viaducts. These pieces of transportation infrastructure are the only remnants of a planned freeway system that was famous blocked by citizens, making Vancouver the only major city in North America not served by a freeway. But the zones under and around the viaducts offer a diversity of public spaces not seen in the manicured public parks endemic to every other park of the city. This proposal aimed to retain pieces of the viaducts that shelter some of these spaces (like the skate park) while creating other public space typologies not currently part of the city’s inventory – spaces that are dank, mysterious, and surprising.
Viaducts
Type: Competition ProposalYear: 2015
In 2015 Vancouver City Council voted to demolish the viaducts. These pieces of transportation infrastructure are the only remnants of a planned freeway system that was famous blocked by citizens, making Vancouver the only major city in North America not served by a freeway. But the zones under and around the viaducts offer a diversity of public spaces not seen in the manicured public parks endemic to every other park of the city. This proposal aimed to retain pieces of the viaducts that shelter some of these spaces (like the skate park) while creating other public space typologies not currently part of the city’s inventory – spaces that are dank, mysterious, and surprising.