Intergenerational Living Competition
Lexington, Kentucky has the oldest urban growth boundary in the United States; as a result, the urban core will continue to densify over time. Based on Lexington’s 15-year population projection, the city will have doubled its residents in only 50 years. The university, with similar expansion constraints, must act intelligently by increasing density towards downtown. Intelligent, cohesive, and integrative solutions are paramount for future residential development.
The chosen site is situated within a proposed development corridor for residential use. The link between campus and downtown is populated primarily with students, but there are critical gaps in the urban fabric that could be strategically developed. The project aims to activate the edge conditions of both campus and urban core to transform undifferentiated interstitial space into a connective tissue that establishes an urban armature capable of cultivating active zones of public participation.
Augmentations [Paintings]
The paintings are augmented artifacts of conceptual and perceptual ideas about the project relative to building and landscape. The production of the work becomes an active excogitation and contemplation of the prevailing design issues. These extrapolations supplant the precision of the digital environment with a low-resolution ideation medium that offers speed and haptic engagement.
