PARK(ing)

[Image: "Forest on Foot", by Interstice Architects]

How to combine the city with countryside? In the project PARK(ing) Day, the metered parking spaces inside the city are temporarily transformed into temporary public parks as ‘PARK’ spaces. It aims to find out the range of possible activities for this short-term lease.

This project seems to be same as the Rockplug I mentioned before. However, they actually use the opposite ways to combine the city with countryside. One is bringing countryside to the city; the other is bringing the city to countryside. In PARK(ing) Day, although these are only short-term lease, the experience of nature is real. In Rockplug, there are trees surrounding you, but you still have to answer a phone call or type a file on a notebook.

People cannot totally get rid of city in countryside or on their vocation, they could be pulled back at any time instantly by the 3G network through a single iphone. Once they get back from the countryside, it is also impossible to throw the countryside away, because all the soil and seeds stick to your boots or coat are the extension of nature. Therefore, man become the media between the city and countryside.