The street is no longer a channel—it is a field. A thickened, textured ground that rejects the tyranny of the straight line. The carpet street is not a conduit for movement alone but a topographic condition, a continuous urban fabric that absorbs ha
Like a soft, mutable textile, the city is stitched together by flows of people, water, vegetation, and commerce. Boundaries blur: street, plaza, dwelling, market, park—no longer distinct but absorbed into the deep, undulating surface of urban life.
Conceptual Framework ◯ Topographical Streets: Instead of linear corridors, movement is absorbed into a fluctuating terrain—a hybrid between landscape and infrastructure. ◯ Programmatic Porosity: Streets are no longer neutral voids between buildings
The modernist grid dissolves, and with it, the illusion of order. In its place: a thickened, lived-in street, the city as a landscape, a carpet woven with the rhythms of life.
No longer a space “between” buildings, it becomes the architecture itself—a deep surface, folding, thickening, eroding. A terrain where movement is not prescribed but discovered, where pedestrian pathways are carved by desire rather than dictated by
Masterplan Development Strategy Deconstruction of Grid: Replace existing orthogonality with a soft-grid—a network of zones that respond to topography and human-scale movement. ◯ Hybrid Ground: Mix of natural and synthetic terrains (sand, grass, wat
The modernist grid dissolves, and with it, the illusion of order. In its place: a thickened, lived-in street, the city as a landscape, a carpet woven with the rhythms of life.
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