View of street near Pre-Colombian Museum
Often times during studio, it is common for someone to begin a project by trying to create areas with an ambiguity of space. That includes me, but it wasn’t until I visited Santiago that I realized what that truly means. From division of interior and exterior to separation of public and private spaces, so much of Santiago seems to blend together and act as a whole rather than piece by piece.
The sketch focuses on the streets, which act as a specific example of this. So many of them are at the same height as the sidewalk. They do not have that slight change in section with a curb to indicate difference. Small round and circular mounds help with that, but other than that the space feels very continuous and helps encourage the public use. The sketch shows how there are very many changes in ground patterns, but the street still isn’t very separately defined.