Parking for People is temporary intervention in public space that operates as catalyst for place making by building temporary communities through engagement and participation. It is a hybrid system that operates between the scale of infrastructure, space and furniture where the visitors are an active part of the spatial production.
The project aims to be a Prototype to reclaim Urban Voids or neglected Vacant sites. The project is intended to look at the contemporary city and reflect on its future by designing a prototype that could act as a model to reclaim urban areas that are dysfunctional or misused and to re-think forms of density. The intervention explores possibilities to build different forms of temporary communities, reimagining modes of production of (public ) space.
The project proposes a set of prototypical tactics for temporary activation and appropriation that could be replicable in different contexts. It operates simultaneously in a spatial [macro]scale and human [micro] scale. It is a spatial machine that unfolds in space and allows the incorporation of multiple (public) uses in one synthetic spatial construction. It offers a time-based scenario that take into consideration material and programmatic strategies as a mode to redefine its urban presence. The project is intended to be developed in an outdoor – public space as a prototype that could be replicated throughout the city.
