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raised path New infrastructural spines locate in
close proximity to these now communal mansions. These become more permanent
structures providing spaces of public bathrooms, circulation and utility. Frames
are added that mediate between and into formerly private mansions allowing for
a raised path to be constructed at the second story height of each mansion.
With this new public right of way, units scatter around the path that act as
small affordable spaces of different uses. Maneuvers of circulation,
stabilization and dismantling allow for the process to unfold in stages of development
over time, ensuring limited construction where there is already potential
wetland migration and little development, as the sea rises and the ground floor
becomes fully submerged inlets and canals take form and life continues at a new
datum. The first stages respect the road as a passage, but as nature moves in
it is completely disregarded. With the removal of the street as the main means
of thoroughfare the project seeks to entirely reconceive of traditional notions
of property, boundaries, and zoning. What is property without land?