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Dana Hogstedt •
Program
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In the Back Bay Fens I propose to create an infrastructure, both conceptual
and physical, within this public park that would facilitate the legitimization
and reintegration of the homeless population into civic life. In essence,
I want to make the gatehouse and its landscape a new "institution", a new
"knob" that will have a positive influence on the park and the city. I hope
to do this by creating a permanent physical infrastructure within the park
at a few key places of social interaction, which would allow for the daily
activities of the homeless to occur while also creating usable spaces for
the general public who typically use the park during the daylight hours.
I am imagining a design that would render visible or heighten the diurnal
and seasonal changes of the park so that the public can see the park more
as a transient and fluctuating landscape rather than a fixed object that
does not and should not change. In these spaces I would heighten the existing
microclimatic conditions, or create new ones, to mitigate the weather conditions
for the benefit of the park visitors and the homeless people sleeping in
these places by making the area more comfortable in the extremes of seasonal
fluctuation in weather, while highlighting the variation in the landscape,
possibly referencing back to the primordial landscape that existed prior
to the filling of the Great Bay. |
