Learning from Lampasas
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The intervention uses Lampasas, a small town an hour-and-a-half outside Austin, as a model for micropolitan America. The town is encircled with a new highway loop for infinite driving pleasure, and four new typologies emerge giving even greater access and glorification to the personal car: the new strip mall, the parking lot/tailgate town square, the drive-in church, and the drive-in home.
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Following the legacies of No-Stop City and Learning from Las Vegas, the new strip mall images an endless system of canopies which merge sign and shed (in a digital, phone-GPS era) and glass “rooms” therein - motels, coworking, and retail.
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The new house grows in order to make the car be central to everyday life, a piece of furniture within the living spaces.
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The town square is extended into a massive, undulating parking lot for tailgating. Christmas string lights are reminiscent of the previous means of decorating the old square year-round.
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