Fold-up City is the vertical projection of the surrounding horizontal city. The vision derives from a grassroots intervention: a complete re-appropriation of the abandoned Queensway Railway. The property lines of the city fabric are folded up onto the three dimensionalized Right of Way to arrive at a new vertical city. This reinterpretation of the Right of Way begins questioning the distinction between private and public space in an urban context. Between the two vertical neighborhoods the distinction between private and public becomes blurred. This leads to variations in the typical public space typology.
Featured in the International Architecture Biennale: Rotterdam
Full presentation boards exhibited at the Biennale
Product of folding up the horizontal blocks to the vertical Fold-Up City infrastructure. The collage examines the public void space that remains from the program adjacencies.
Six final projects encompassing the entire 3.5-mile length of the QueensWay, an abandoned railway bisecting Queens along the communities of Rego Park, Forest Hills, Forest Park, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, and Ozone Park, demonstrated how the area might be turned into valuable civic space through spatial interventions and reprogramming. The six projects were represented on a collaborative, large-scale drawing and models that were displayed at the biennial.