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XØ Projects Inc presents Farzana Gandhi's

_PARK THE VOID_

A winning entry for [spot], a design competition for a temporary outdoor intervention in a Philadelphia urban parking spot. The competition asked for an installation that could mark a moment in the urban landscape and provoke new thought on this disregarded public space.  The installation, built at The (OA) Can Factory, was on view in Philadelphia, PA on Walnut Street, between 15-16 Streets on Friday, 17 October 2008 as part of the events of DesignPhiladelphia and National Design Week. Additional information  below.

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EXHIBITION

1 - 2 November 2008  Saturday + Sunday 12-6 pm

Free and open to the public

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RECEPTION

2 November 2008  Sunday 3-6 pm

Artists, architects, designers and their guests are invited

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LOCATION

The Old American Can Factory

232 Third Street at Third Avenue Gowanus Brooklyn, NY 11215

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PARK THE VOID

The amount of public space dedicated to parking the private vehicle in Philadelphia is almost double the total SF area of Center City’s four major public parks. ParkTheVoid is an interactive, educational installation that reprograms the privatized parking spot as a public social space, while also revealing the unequal open space distribution between vehicular parking and public park. Within an extruded volume, the poetic absence of the car acts as a provocative graphic statement - the subtracted vehicle literally provides opportunities for pedestrian seating, shade, and buffer, through which the street is newly framed and viewed. Superimposed on this corrugated cardboard armature is an abstract city grid that subdivides the volume into accurately scaled pieces of “public park.” These pieces total the open space required to collectively arrange Philadelphia’s 14,500 metered parking spots. Adjusting the pieces within the grid, the public creates varied seating arrangements at one scale, but also rethinks the city at the urban scale.

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FARZANA GANDHI  |  farzanagandhi.com

Farzana Gandhi, LEED AP, is principal of FG Design Studio, an architecture and research practice pushing innovation within socially conscious and sustainable thought. Farzana is also an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the New York Institute of Technology, where she teaches architecture design studios and drawing seminars. In her spare time, Farzana is actively involved as Chair and Founder of Design in 5, a group of the Architectural League of New York, formed for designers of all disciplines 5 years of less out of school. Farzana graduated with a Master in Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. At the University of Pennsylvania, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish with Distinction. At both institutions, she received highest honors for design and academic excellence. Until recently, Farzana was also working as Project Manager at Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture, where she was directly involved with the design of a number of award winning projects.

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XØ PROJECTS INC  |  xoprojects.com

XØ Projects Inc  is a company professionally engaged in the planning, design, development and management of property, structures and experiences for people which are mindful, practical, sustainable and profitable in all their aspects. XØ:p developed and operates The (OA) Can Factory, an historic, industrial complex of six buildings totaling 130,000 sf at the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, as a haven to a curated community of more than 200 people working in a broad range of art and design disciplines.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Farzana Gandhi t thanks DesignPhiladelphia and QB3 for organizing and curating [spot] in Philadelphia.

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