THE HIGH LINE- Plotting NYC | ||
Commissioned
to study Chelsea's elevated railway, better known as the High Line, this website experiments with alternative documents to those master plans and perspectives typically used by planners to convey "vision" for the city. Assuming that vision might be stored in other dimensions and other specific species of information, the site communicates explicit ingredients and instructions for spaces and programs, but it argues that, in the city, these must always enter into a skeletal and somewhat less predictable mix than the planner had hoped. Whatever the fate of the High Line, this site is a machine for generating spatial scenarios and narratives about a specific portion of this city. Entering
the site is like entering a story, a highly integrated story The
web site makes of the high line a celebrity or an object of One
of the four worlds is registered in planimetric property Another
environment, using panoramic photographs, travels along the The
third environment is a game of "Trap." The background character
The
fourth environment portrays the high line as a party rather than |
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A project of the Design Trust with Friends of the High Line | ||
CREDITS: | ||
Design Fellow- Keller Easterling | ||
Website Team- Keller Easterling, Phu Hoang, Seiichi Saito | ||
Special Thanks to Casey Jones (Design Fellow, Design Trust for Public Space), Robert Hammond and Joshua David (Friends of the High Line). | ||
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