Category Archives: JOURNAL OF A STALKER

AGENDA STATEMENT | The Infrastructural Water System

THE BIOSWALE SYSTEM The system of bioswales along the main streets and avenues allows to gather and filter the stormwater. It permits as well to mitigate the ground impermeabilization and to avoid the water stagnation on the side of the … Continue reading

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AGENDA STATEMENT | The Hackensack Plank Trail

INFRASTRUCTURAL NARRATIVE The land where Secaucus lies was purchased in 18th century by the dutch coloners, who established their houses where the plank road connecting Hoboken to Paterson was being built. Its trace was a former Indian trail connecting the Hudson … Continue reading

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CASE STUDIES | A Line Made By Walking

This formative piece was made on one of Long’s journeys to St Martin’s from his home in Bristol. Between hitchhiking lifts, he stopped in a field in Wiltshire where he walked backwards and forwards until the flattened turf caught the … Continue reading

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AGENDA STATEMENT | A More Resilient Urbanity

A STORY ABOUT EXPLOITATION The first dutch settlement of what will be called Sikakes lied on a ridge emerging from the surrounding tidal marsh. The former name came from two Algonquian words; seke or sukit, meaning black; achgook, meaning snakes … Continue reading

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CASE STUDIES | Tanghe River Park Red Ribbon

PROJECT STATEMENT The Minimum Intervention Approach to Urban Greenway Against a background of natural terrain and vegetation, is a “red ribbon” spanning five hundred meters, which integrates the functions of lighting, seating, environmental interpretation, and orientation. While preserving as much of … Continue reading

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A narrative beneath my feet Still on Paterson Plank Road. I decide this will be my first trace on Secaucus for today.  I try to imagine those years of the former plank road. Wood, mud and clogs along the same track. … Continue reading

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VISUAL NARRATIVE | Trace Clash

 

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VISUAL NARRATIVE | Close To The Edge

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VISUAL NARRATIVE | Fording A Trace

   

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VISUAL NARRATIVE | Stalking The Plank Road

   

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