EXPERIENTIAL URBANISM — MIAO XUE PORTFOLIO

Experiential Urbanism- Walkways bridging College Hill Park to the City of Poughkeepsie

Intersection of Ribbon & Spine-Contrast between Accordance & Penetration -Interaction between Earthscape & Treescape

Hudson Walkway takes on the responsibility of connectivity within and between cities. Yet the walkway lacks a direct/guided connection to the site. My project envisions two lines of boardwalks that reactivate the Site by connecting two significant local figures, the Folley and the Cistern, to the City.

College Hill Park contains sloped terrain as "the earthscape" and fields of trees as "the treescape." The boardwalk aligns/penetrates these elements, creating different spatial/acoustical experiences -- The Ribbon serves as physical guidance and a hint of the project, according to the shared boundary of the Treescape and the Earthscape, grabbing people from the existing routes to the center of the project. In contrast, The Spine serves as the primary experience that rigidly penetrates the entire length spanning the Treescape and the Earthscape (from the boundary to the center of the Park). Linearity contains virtues of transitional experiences of sound, light, wind, and Material. Elements of nature were activated through the intervention.
Seasonality creates variation in Treescape, from the protection and intimacy of spring and summer to the bareness and exposure of fall and winter. The contrast are radicalized into a conscious experience of sound/space as the movement line brings pedestrians into it.

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SPINE: