TheGrotesque - volume 2

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Color infiltrates the landscape as a coating on infrastructure on a hand-painted house facade as a marker for things to be removed (fences) as boundaries for constructed wetlands as tags on planted saplings

to show investment and ownership of the built environment. What spatial affect does one painted surface have versus a proliferation of that hue throughout the landscape of a neighborhood? In a city of increasing emptiness, how can residents claim the empty spaces? When the land allocated for each house is doubled or even tripled, how does a neighborhood, that was planned with a high density, unfold? What are the potential productive uses for an abundance of emptiness?


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