Design Development
Parking drives event space layout
Knowing that a layout that is legible as a whole would be more navigable by car, I laid down a field of squares, allowing the parking layout to drive the event locations. The horizontal grid was composed of 9’x9’ squares so that any combination of two of them would equal the standard dimension of a parking stall which is 9’x 18’. On top of this I laid out a diagonal grid to create a matrix that has four possible orientations. This “field of parking” scheme had a few advantages. Besides being readable as a whole, it suggests spaces for different types of events, (sporting, market, crowd gathering, and trapeze flying, etc).
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