I love this little project by Goodweather, speculating what the Pacific Northwest may have been like had urban planners utilized the existing old growth trees into new urban design.
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What would a metropolis in the Pacific Northwest look like if urban planners at the turn of the 20th century recognized and exploited the spatial potential of existing old growth trees rather than their perceived resource potential?
Employing techniques of photomontage and urban mapping Goodweather takes us on an anachronistic detour that decouples empirical fact from historical memory.
While in the present city of Vancouver, the centre space of roundabouts is given over to various sanctioned treatments—community gardens, a monumental rock, and so on—in this “retroprojective” proposal an alternative vision of the not-so-distant past is offered, one wherein forward-thinking city planners leave an old growth tree at the centre of each future roundabout. Cont…
I originally caught notice of this over at Deconcrete, which is an excellent, excellent little architecture, urban planning, and-everything-else blog. go check it out.
