LOT LOGIC

AN APPLIED RESEARCH PROJECT IN BUENOS AIRES BRINGS FRESH EYES TO URBAN VACANCY.

EDITED BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER

In Argentina, an urban vacant lot is referred to as baldío. Derived from the Arabic term bāṭilah, meaning “vain, valueless, or uncultivated,” this is also the name of an experimental project by Estudio Bulla, a fast-growing landscape architecture office in Buenos Aires. Initiated during the pandemic, Baldío I and II are two different stages of one intellectually rigorous and environmentally committed work in progress taking place in a residential area of the city. The project involves landscape architects, artists, and the work of the architect and environmental artist Martin Huberman. Baldío I (2020–2022) was a three-year-long botanical survey and experimentation with spontaneous vegetation appearing in a lot after demolition and site preparation. (Planned new construction was delayed by the pandemic and new land-use proposals.) “The first year and a half was only…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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