Promenade for Participation
FIRST PLACE
NOMAS BGL Competition ACADIA AWARD, 2024
Site: Baltimore
Team: Ankur Moolky, Aung Htet Khant Paing, Sansiri Gaem Sansopa, Tianchi Zhao, Danny Nguyen, Yue Zhuo.
FIRST PLACE
NOMAS BGL Competition ACADIA AWARD, 2024
Site: Baltimore
Team: Ankur Moolky, Aung Htet Khant Paing, Sansiri Gaem Sansopa, Tianchi Zhao, Danny Nguyen, Yue Zhuo.
“Promenade for Participation” re-imagines the “Highway to Nowhere” as a vibrant, community-driven urban park, transforming it into a shared living room. At its core, the design is rooted in the rhythms of everyday life. Modular, mobile urban furniture—built and customized by the residents with the Ice Factory as their creative workshop—unite art and function, transforming spaces into hubs for communal activity. The architecture restores the neighborhood’s fabric by emulating the surrounding residential inner-block parks, fostering intimacy and connection. Pathways throughout the site link major landmarks and enhance access.
The project is envisioned to transcend the site boundary, reviving the vacant lots along the Highway to Nowhere all the way to downtown Baltimore as the community flourishes. “Promenade for Participation” is a project that is truly for the people, by the people – and through this community participation, the neighborhood will thrive once again.
The project is envisioned to transcend the site boundary, reviving the vacant lots along the Highway to Nowhere all the way to downtown Baltimore as the community flourishes. “Promenade for Participation” is a project that is truly for the people, by the people – and through this community participation, the neighborhood will thrive once again.
