Slow Driving

500 miles is a REAL LONG drive inside a car

This ideas competition proposes a modern system of roadside stopping points that reflect the changing economic and environmental paradigm of America’s Fahrvergnügen. The brief is to design a set of architectural (meaning experienced spatially) invitations to pull-off the highway and engage landscape, habitat, and natural resources. The new network is similar to the current system of historical markers, but is distinguished by both what is marked and also how it is marked. Its mission is to promote a renewed understanding of the national landscape through demonstrating the interconnectiveness of the often unperceived relationships between ecology, history and culture.

[Image above from 1st Place winning team Jessie Gemmer (Architecture), Jordan Mrazik (Architecture), and Matt Dierkes (Industrial Design)]