Public design is in the heart of every great city!
As an architecture student, I am interested in how public spaces shape the experiences of the people who inhabit them. They are the spaces where people come together for social, cultural, political and economic purposes and where individuals gather to form communities.
Using the Logan Square Park as a case study, my thesis is a proposal that reimagines what is currently an underutilized public space, at the epicenter of an otherwise thriving community. The park, located at the busy intersection of three grand boulevards, is surrounded by traffic, and is difficult for pedestrians to access, thereby discouraging its use.
To reactivate this park, my project proposes a rerouting of traffic around the park, and a new architectural intervention designed with the neighborhood’s demographics in mind, in order to better serve the current cultural activities of the neighborhood. With this design, I am reimagining a new Logan Square Park that honors the historic value of the area, while looking forward to a new future in the neighborhood that gives precedence to people over cars and facilitates a space where the community can meet, gather, interact and have fun.
