Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Masha Hupalo
The current paper articulates a relational logic of parking spaces and its strategic employment. According to Michel Serres, the parasite “is, first of all, the elementary relation” that constructs the subject. Seen in this way parking is the parasite that marks a beginning and an end of every trip. These nodes of stillness can influence movement and with it an urban fabric in which this stillness resides. Two different urban fabrics and approaches are explored in case studies: an array of surface parking lots in Downton Los Angeles and a monumental parking garage of the Mountain Dwelling in Copenhagen. What this analysis brings forward is the potency of an architectural object to enhance the effect of the spatial software of planning legislation. There is no opposition between thinking of the city in terms of flows and arranging spatial compositions of buildings. Instead, the movement parasites of parking can be deployed as strategic catalysts in a broad regulatory field.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.12
Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca
ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0
