Washington D.C., Urban Intervention

This is a proposed intervention in the area around Union Station (north of the Capitol Building) in Washington D.C. Most of the area around the station was either parking lots or large parks. In order to make the area more pedestrian friendly and to better navigate the shift in building scale from the small townhouses on the east edge to the larger scale buildings on the west edge, dense mixed-use blocks are introduced in the east to encourage pedestrian activity. Buildings fronting the major roads are larger in scale, and the scale of the buildings progressively increases as you move westward across the site.