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PRECEDENTS

Existing projects that are relevant to our work—through their subject matter, spatial qualities, or programmatic potential—are analyzed below. Some are built works and others are speculative, but not all are exemplary; we use the precedent study process to both be inspired and to critique. Projects fall into five categories: rehabilitation, infrastructure, energy, urbanism, and remediation.      

INFRASTRUCTURE 

Tennessee Valley Authority United States Federal Government, 1933  

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Various designers, 2008 

Dendritic Zoning ATLAS Lab, 2013  

Umbral de las Americas Elizabeth Añaños, Adriana Chavez, Daniel Daou, Oscar Malaspina Quevedo, Gabriel Morales, Nicolas Rivard, Einat Rosenkrantz, 2014  

Girard Avenue Interchange AECOM, 2017-  

Border Wall Prototypes Various designers, 2017-  

URBANISM 

Broadacre City Frank Lloyd Wright,  1932  

Plug-In City Archigram, 1964

Arcosanti Paolo Soleri,  1970  

Autonomous City Drew Adams, Daniel Ibañez, Fadi Masoud, 2011

Nicollet Mall  Field Operations, 2016-  

US-Mexico Checkpoints Various designers