Pet Parcels

This study combines the concepts from Gordon Matta- Clark’s “Fake Estates” with Certain Measures’s cartographic RoweBot, to create a mapping tool for finding and representing open lots within cities’ existing urban fabric. Referencing a lineage of urban theory by architects that spans from Colin Rowe and John Hejduk’s 1957 “Lockhart, Texas” to Atelier Bow-Wow’s 2001 Pet Architecture Guide Book, Pet Parcels proposes a historically conscious computational model for increasing cities’ density. Results from an analysis of Lubbock, Texas will be shared to articulate the methodology behind this approach. With potential application by city planning agencies, community stakeholders, and architectural practitioners, this digital design method seeks to provide a tool for translating found urban conditions into parameters for generating novel design interventions.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.89

Volume Editors
Robert Gonzalez, Milton Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon

ISBN
978-1-944214-40-1