BARTRAM'S GARDEN
Philadelphia, PA
LARP 501 // PennDesign
Instructor // Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
Hand-drawn serial sections and photographing of the site revealed methods for stitching together landscapes divided by a railroad and history. The rich history of Bartram's Garden and its relationship to its neighbor, now low-income housing, and how their relationship changed through time revealed insight into how the two can partner and co-exist.
Photo-montages and physical model building were tools in formulating an infrastructural language.
Lessons
"Anu and Dilip are deeply thoughtful and encouraging professors. I explored the depths of landscape architectural representation through process-driven design explorations. What is a line? Dilip would ask. A single line in architecture has tremendous consequences.
Physically triangulating the site revealed an aspect of the site I was most interested in; the railroad and its relationship with Bartram's Garden and the garden's neighboring low-income housing complex. The railroad became the spine for the "stitching" language that developed."