Parking Space
Farmingdale, NY
Parking Space is a park conceived as an exploration of place, introspection, and shared use. Designed for the residents of Farmingdale, New York, the project intentionally blurs the boundary between park and parking lot, asking users to confront the ways in which public space is claimed, contested, and periodically lost.
Ambiguously programmed structures occupy the site, creating spaces that must be negotiated by both pedestrians and automobiles. This deliberate overlap compels users to navigate questions of ownership and priority: is the space for parking or for gathering, for cars or for people? By staging this tension, the project makes visible the everyday trade-offs between mobility and community, efficiency and leisure, infrastructure and open space.
Parking Space is less a static park than a living experiment in spatial negotiation, an environment where the rhythms of public life and automobile culture intersect, collide, and ultimately reshape the experience of place.