Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Nojan Adami & Mark Mueckenheim
In today’s frequent power exchange between historically privileged groups and marginalized ones, the question of architecture’s role in transcending its footprint is a critical one. The public life of streets, plazas and parks no longer allows for the friction of competing ideas to interface, replaced by virtue space, vast urban place, and policing. This project proposes a series of public spaces, a political bazaar, which occupies San Francisco’s Civic Plaza. Overlapping activities are arranged as an urban corridor capable of constructing a dialogue that extends well beyond the politics of this particular city and place. This speculative proposal for an underground market, and redefined open plaza above, establishes a new active street culture for the San Francisco civic center.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.15
Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca
ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0
