Systems + Intervention

This brief engages the idea of systems as a mode of analysis. Before designing an intervention, our group of 20 landscape students took two weeks to analyze the site of the South Bay in Boston. We looked at permeable spaces, impermeable spaces, vegetation, transportation routes, topography, building heights, zoning and program, fence locations, privacy, etc. Once we mapped all these we then produced synthesis maps that overlaid the data in order to see if there were any correlations. 

From my analysis, I noticed there was a huge divide in program and accessibility where a railroad on a elevated ground just rips through the city (sort of like an inverted fissure). To combat this dissonance, my intervention takes on the idea of covering the railroad and converting the space into a ecological haven for which animals and people can commute across. This solves the problems of programmatic segregation and ecological assimilation. 

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Previously in site visits, a person would stroll into these industrial zones suddenly and feel totally out of place, but with a smoothed transition, a person is then allowed to overlook the programs, essentially highlighting the divide, showcasing diversity whilst maintaining everything in its place.