ADJUSTABLE LANE CONFIGURATIONS
cluster trees for group seating
tensile attachment
parking spaces adjust to different sizes
planters can created a protected bike lane
open-source public digital space
commercial digital space for rent
table and chair supplements
OPEN-SOURCE STREET
CONTEST PROMPT:
Design a streetscape for a section of Ted Turner Dr. in Atlanta, GA. How can it be resilient to the future?
Proposed Solution: Make the street modifiable.
This proposal is to make Atlanta's Ted Turner Drive a flexible space that allows for our society’s transition into technologically advanced built environments. The project calls for a complete redesign of the conventional street structure. To allow for maximum adjustability, it should be a digital street. Thus, allowing live updates and an open-source concept. This instigates an interaction with the public and creates a space with continuous human modification. Digital technology permits a street to be multi-functional without compromising individual function quality and still serving functions like being a travel corridor and a gathering space. A flexible space helps future-proof the street to be easily compatible with autonomous vehicles. Or future functions that have yet to be invented. A digital street in this context will allow the adjustability of every graphic we see on today’s average street: car lanes, crosswalks, stop signs, traffic lights, pedestrian zones, bus stops, parking spots, bike lanes, etc. All of that becomes digital with the installation of interlocking digital panels that span the entire width and length of the street. The panels serve multiple functions as data collectors and self-powering energy collection through the pressure of car and human impact. They allow easy maintenance and are waterproof. The required digital street signage and lane choices are managed by a city professional, but the rest of the street is open for businesses and visitors to update and interact with.
To make a truly adjustable space the plant material needs to be movable as well. Through the introduction of “tree armatures,” the trees can move back and forth and side to side. The armature incorporates all of the street furniture that a typical street has into one element. The structure houses seating, landscape, trash receptacles, and lighting. An adjustable landscape alters the influence in the designer’s role of designing a subjectively finite space to designing a framework of elements that the user then choreographs the movement of based on their needs and desires.
