Walkability and Success of a Community
by workbymichelletodd
When first approaching a creative site analysis, I was overwhelmed with all of the raw data that speaks of the community of Ashley Park, but not for Ashley Park. While the demographics are helpful in studies, what I found to speak to me after visiting the site was how vast and discontinuous it seems even though there is a relative close proximity. This realization led me to become interested in the walkability of the site and how that can be connected into the success and well being of a community. With the future hopes to promote pedestrian activity comes the ambition to create a community that is more urban and helps promote a stronger community. The aims is to introduce walkability as a branch of community by promoting interaction.
With this in mind, I began to construct a creative interpretation of the site analysis. Because Bryant Park and the Charlotte School of Law Building are anchors and more staid on the site, they are a more permanent and prominent color indicating how they create strongholds on the site. To indicate the retail/commercial aspects, the pieces are indicated in a red hue. The residential components are yellow. The lighter the red hue, the more removed it is from the residential areas, relating a decrease in walkability. The lighter color of yellow indicates less dense, single family housing; the bolder yellow indicates high density residential areas. By placing these colors together, there is an interaction revealed, indicating the strong sites to introduce a potential courthouse that can compliment the area. By constructing this piece on a plexi, there is a stacking effect showing the contrast between the existing (bottom of the plexi) and the proposed site modifications (on top of the plexi).
[space + justice] 