Carl Lostritto, Instructor
School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
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Seperation and Connection
Seperation and Connection
The intersection outside of Stamp Student Union is one of the most heavily traveled areas of the University of Maryland campus. It is here that Campus Drive intersects with a major crosswalk that connects a major portion of the campus, “the mall” to Stamp Student union and North campus. It is at this intersection that one will also discover a bus stop. The obvious result of the mixture of pedestrian traffic, buses, and impatient drivers is traffic jams and issues along the street. What if one could introduce a new means of crossing the street? Campus Drive, in a way serves as a means of dividing one side of campus from the other. What if a structure could be implemented that created a sense of connection while solving the traffic issue of the space. The main intention of the intervention is one that simultaneously separates the road way traffic from the pedestrian traffic but it will also pay respect to the fact that the street is a changing condition of the with respect to time. At night there is a completely different set of street and traffic conditions as displayed by the video. This intervention could potentially be a space or structure that responds to the time of day and the traffic condition of the space, while simultaneously creating a sense of connection over…or under a major roadway that creates division of space.
