Shared Ground
is a spatial investigation into coexistence, developed for Interior Food Ecologies, exploring who inhabits the unprogrammed margins of Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The project maps four groups that occupy the park's southern edge without acknowledging one another: rats, gay cruisers, BBQ gatherers and families. Rather than designing them apart, the work proposes a catalog of architectural elements that hold them in shared proximity. A canopy of hemp fabric stretched between trees and metal poles collects falling leaves until it decomposes, collapses, and leaves behind a skeleton for new shelter, a design that accounts for its own transformation rather than fixing the site. Glass walls misted by a fine spray of water act as both screening and props for watching, leaning, and waiting. A metal-sheet fountain rises from the ground, releasing mist into a small pool that any visitor, rat, bird, dog, or human can drink from and share. There is no single intended use of these spaces: each element offers a condition and then steps back. My role spanned research and mapping, concept development, fabrication drawings, and the visual diagrams documenting each site and element.