Park Here: Leeds
Pop up park
Leeds, Uk
Community
Leeds, Uk
Community
DLA Architecture
Community
Complete 2016
Summer Event Installation
01 Introduction
PARK HERE was a self-initiated project by ourselves which sought to enhance the neighbourhood in which our office was based on St Paul’s Street.
Through a collaboration with the local business community, we invited ideas from staff and neighbours around the provocative idea of ‘Re-imagining St Paul’s Street’ by transforming a number of car parking spaces.
02 Context
A temporary ‘parklet’ kick-started the project in Summer 2015, transforming an ordinary parking space into a temporary inner city sanctuary. The intervention caught the imagination of passers-by, eliciting a flurry of new ideas, including wider pavements, fewer cars, more trees and welcoming seating.
The consultation was developed into a masterplan for the street and was celebrated by a second installation in September 2016: a ‘pocket park’ utilising parking bays on the corner of St Paul’s Street and Park Square West.
