Community’s Corridor: Navigating Creekside Connections
Kentucky /University of Kentucky
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Mount Sterling is a place determined by its landscape, which is trying to hold onto its past. The city acts as a cultural art destination with a rich history and committed community-though its current infrastructure lacks the avenues to bring those elements to their full potential. Mount Sterling’s culture is being encroached upon by strip-malls, chain shopping centers, and empty paved lots. We are seeking to design through the lens of infrastructural adaptive re-use to de-emphasize vehicular circulation and its impacts. In turn we want to re-emphasize humanistic design through creating a corridor of third places and placing greater value on the artful and personal connections to community through natural and historic gateways-such as Hinkston Creek. Between the rich past and unique landscape of Mt. Sterling, we are seeking to abridge the two and create safe access to green spaces with art weaved throughout, mitigate environmental issues such as flooding with riparian restoration, and revitalize the community’s relationship with Hinkston Creek through proposed green sinks. We are accomplishing this through three focus areas: learning with nature, living with nature, and evolving with nature.
