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November 27, 2005
Circulation
Brooklyn Views is a new blog covering the Atlantic Yards project from the perspecitve of architect Jonathan Cohn.
The most recent post critiques Laurie Olin's open space circulation plan, presented last week at an American Institute of Architects forum:
Laurie Olin spoke about how people move through the open space, and about how the design could mitigate blind corners so that people could see the space as they move through it. He presented an image of red lines on the site plan, and proposed that these represented paths of circulation. But the lines appear to have been drawn without any reference to the origins and destinations of the pedestrians.
Cohn goes on to explain how the debate on density doesn't add up when the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) "is based upon using the taken street areas in the calculation of the project area."
Posted by lumi at November 27, 2005 7:21 PM