Magical Urbanism, a website about urbanization, design and social change, is maintained by Mike Ernst. I'm an urban planner and designer based in San Francisco. I am a graduate of the Ja Studio’s Slow Up-Rising
Canadian firm Ja Studio created this submission entitled “Slow Up-rising” to the Solar Park South international ideas competition in Calabria, Italy. The competition brief called for a ‘Solar Highway’ to be made by re-using parts of decommissioned highway.
The existing bridge:
Ja Studio’s proposal:
Modern infrastructures are extra large. They facilitate the connection between major urban nodes and allow cities to expand. They are designed to maintain the large and their existence signals the dissolution of the small. They cross the deep valleys, bypass the difficult roads and shortcut the peaks; thus dissolve the small, distant and hard to reach nodes and communities.
Link to Ja Studio’s description of their submission; via Bustler.
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