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The Fillmore District is a historic neighbourhood in San Francisco and one of the major commercial and cultural centre of the city. What people do not know is that before the neighbourhood become what it is, a lot happened around that area, leading to what it is now a days. Because of that, the main idea for this project is to create three three-dimensional collages based on the three major events on history of the Fillmore with the intention of showing people the evolution of we now call The Fillmore District
Starting from the first collage, I am going to be focusing on the Japanese culture in the Fillmore, more specifically the episode of the Executive Order 9066, when Japanese Americans were evicted and/or incarcerated after the episode of Pearl Harbor in 1941. More than that, I want to show the The second collage is going to be inspired by the African American culture that arrived to the Fillmore district right at the time the Japanese Americans had to evacuate the area because of the war. I am going to be focusing on the contrast between when they first arrived in the Bay Area, bringing the jazz and the night life to the district and how things turned around and the neighbourhood became a very poor and dangerous. More than that, how the appropriation of the neighbourhood also changed, starting from a single family housing, to a multi family housing and ending up to a slump. For the third collage I am going to be focusing on the gentrification of the Fillmore District and all the changes that occurred during that time. It was one of the largest urban renewal projects in the West of the United States but most of the people that lived in the neighbourhood were not in favour of it. I am going to be focusing more on the deal of the loss of number of buildings associated with African American Culture and Jazz history and the Project A1, where the widening of the two lane Geary Street into the busy Geary Boulevard and how it became an unwritten financial dividing line between neighbourhoods as well as the mass destruction of most of the Victorian Houses with the intention of replacing large swaths of economically depressed older neighbourhoods with bigger new buildings would result in lower crime, economic growth and a higher standard of living. |
AuthorMarina is originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil and is currently in her third year studying Architecture at California College of the Arts. Her main area of interest is the urban design and sustainability and the idea of the design promoting healthy and socially interactive neighborhoods that contribute to the economic success of cities. Along with being a future architect, she is interested in photography, philosophy and fine arts. Most of the time she is inspired by music, films, people that she meets and places that she goes over her life. She hopes her work can affect everyone in different ways as well as show a little bit of her world to other people through her design. |