detroit shadow city (ongoing) ST UDIO V I “ SIST ER CI T IES” | SPR IN G 2020 | SC OT T IE McDANIEL
My final studio project, Detroit Shadow City, explores the undesirable aspects of an urban park, the inclusive/exclusivity (patronage) of public spaces, and the role of designers in this tension. The following drawings are preliminary work focusing on process, form, and research. At this point in the semester, the five-acre Roosevelt Park is the extent of our project site. These drawings will be the basis of the next phase, designing 50 acres of Detroit. I envision this project to become a really good sitebased project (really!) and prove as an opportunity to focus on code-based form-making process and material detail, as well as an opportunity to research iconic landscapes of modern (very roughly 60s) America, as connected to my pseudo-thesis, “Something Scary Something Pretty.”
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First set of concrete model, texture detail.
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