Adaptable Edges
Plano, Texas
As a response to the exurban site and the various barriers - programmatic, physical, infrastructural – found on site, my urban design project proposes a blurring of these barriers through pixelation. The pixel has both an individualized importance and a collective responsibility, and they depend on each other for full clarity. This propelled me to establish the practice of urban resolution to conceptualize the various scalar requirements across the vast site. Through scales of pixelation, infrastructural, architectural, ecological pixels can create a matrix that fosters a thriving urban development.
This project expands the possibilities for exurban sites by speculating on fitting the transect of a city onto the 1300 foot long site. This condensing of urban sprawl reduces the dross in between and allows for various typologies of living and working that people desire. From high density mixed-use living to single family homes, this range of urban living in a walkable area transforms the potential for single entity models of city making.
Throughout this project, conceptual and design priority is given to pedestrians. In a condensed urban transect, the car loses importance and the pedestrian regains power. Through networks of pedestrian streetscapes and ecological corridors, traversing the site is most efficient and enjoyable at the human scale.