Urban Garden

A thesis project addressing the most overlooked territory in the American city: the surface parking lot. Rather than erase the void, the proposal holds it. Reflective walls ring the lot, mirroring the sky back into the block, and a garden is planted at its center. The result is a public room defined less by its architecture than by what it borrows: the passing clouds, the shifting light, the sounds of the street softened by foliage. A quiet argument that downtown densification does not require more building. Sometimes it requires careful subtraction, and a place to stand still.