DOWNSVIEW
VISION(S)
“Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood," urged the architect and city planner Daniel Burnham in 1909 when he went before a committee evaluating his visionary proposal for replanning the city of Chicago. Burnham was speaking to a limited audience, but he might as well have been addressing the entire profession of architects who, from the outset of the twentieth century, would aspire to a scale of planning and building that would, indeed, stir men's blood—for good and for bad—for the next seventy-five years.”
— Riley, The Changing of the Avant-garde, Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection, 2002.
How can tensions between the insular and exterior nature of the Downsview site be reconciled to challenge the way communities are designed today?
+ Attitudes + Visions
+ Boundary Applications
+ Tensions + Connections
+ Connective Topographic Mounds
+ Vegetation Matrix
+ Hub Density Deployment
+ Circulation Hierarchy
+ Axonometric Plan + Transect
+ Soil Volume