02 MASTERPLAN

from Nilab Majidi - Architecture Portfolio

The Vision

Placing emphasis on the senses to enhance user experience, this master plan focuses on creating spaces that are dynamic, active at all times, and memorable. This begins with formulating a harmony between the new and historic and removing barriers to public access to render these blocks inviting, pragmatic, and connected. Driving memory formation and sensory experience, neurons serve as a biological case study that has been analyzed to generate these new pathways throughout the Civic Center Site. These connections establish a hierarchy on-site both internally and externally and place the human at the center of the design in creating an experience that is unique and exciting every time.Just like neurons, the program is made adaptable in order to fit the ever-changing demands and accommodate for growth within the Civic Center. Reinvigorating the residential, commercial, private, public, and educational sectors encourages positive social gathering, collaboration, and connection to other hubs in the city such as the convention center, the waterfront, Gaslamp, Little Italy, and East Village to strengthen the community at large. Taking a phenomenological approach allows this architecture to cater directly to the inner child, creating spaces of wonder while redefining the role Civic Center plays in San Diego moving forward.

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