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vertical vs horizontal house stacks

Comparing horizontal, uncontrolled urban sprawl to vertical, skyscraper urban growth 

Urban sprawl — the rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation

📍Providence, RI

> Benefit Street —

Vertical House Stack

Horizontal House Stack

Vertical House Stack

Horizontal House Stack

how it works

how it works

1) Download a house stack AR file

2) Go to the location and place the AR house stack with the houses

3) Scale the house stack; walk around it; walk the whole block and compare the square feet difference between the entire block and the single house stack

Enya Pan

Spatial Dynamics Fall 2020

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