Amalgamated Territories. 2018
This speculative typology is situated within the blank, transitional landscape of Plano, Texas—an “edge city” located roughly 15 miles north of Dallas. Positioned in anticipation of inevitable corporate expansion, the site is a tabula rasa primed for development. The surrounding context is dominated by sprawling subdivisions and an endless lattice of freeways—an infrastructural landscape shaped more by circulation than settlement.
In response, the proposal introduces a new form of edge-condition urbanism—one that doesn’t resist the forces of sprawl, but strategically reconfigures them. It seeks to generate a more vibrant and productive urbanism within a context traditionally defined by fragmentation and mono-functionality.
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Acknowledging the rapid growth of the Dallas–Fort Worth megalopolis, the project accepts the prevailing typologies—the corporate tower, the mid-rise donut apartment block, the big-box retail center, and stages them in conversation with one another. These disparate programs are not segregated, but layered and integrated to produce a more nuanced urban condition.
Rather than resisting the corporate logic of colonization, the architecture proposes cohabitation: between corporate presence and domestic intimacy, between commercial spectacle and everyday life. It imagines a site where office towers, superstores, and housing can exist not as isolated zones, but as overlapping territories—each mediating the others, producing friction, interdependence, and unexpected moments of public life.
This is not a return to traditional urbanism, but a provocation of how the edge city might evolve through hybridization, proximity, and the careful choreography of otherwise disconnected systems.
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