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Interchange 68 is the name of the confluence of interstate transport that is the transition between I-95 and I-80. As the junction for two of the longest and highest volume highways on the eastern seaboard [I-95 runs from Boston to Atlanta, and I-80 heads out from New York to Pittsburgh and eventually Chicago and points west.], it’s proximity of 6 miles from Manhattan, and comprising an area roughly the size of Central Park, interchange 68 provides fertile testing ground for provoking liminal space.
Dividing Teaneck New Jersey to the north and Ridgefield Park to the south, the interchange, a threshold and connector by automobile, poses a huge physical barrier to any other form of terrestrial transport. To access and occupy the site, a new level of connective tissue is required at a finer scale. An artificial topography, any new graft of armature must be reflexive and adaptive in time and space. It must intelligently respond to changes in elevation and proximity to the highway and neighbourhood fabric. The challenge becomes scalar. Is it possible to intelligently and productively mediate the local neighbourhood space [designed for a sense of place] with interstate infrastructure [designed for velocity]?
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