Year: 2017.
Type: Research.
Research Grant, Chester Miller Fellowship.
Cities have been developed using many different systems of grids to logically plan a city. Take the United States as an example, the usage of the Jeffersonian grid brought the creation of many eastern and western cities. Houses, commercial buildings, high-rises, and skyscrapers were plotted onto a perfect grid disregarding the terrain beneath them. Similarly, Amsterdam happens to use a grid system that allows canals to penetrate the grid allowing another element to dwell on the terrain. The outcome for these city grids and others are the 1”…3”…6”…1’… 3’… 6’… wide residue plots that result from a syntax error in the grid.
"Thin Estates" is a catalog of buildings from various cities that have been developed from these inevitable errors. These residues become spaces to be explored and contribute to an architectural proposition for urban development; a thin aesthetic to a city.