Overlooked: placemaking within neglected landscapes

The world was not created on a nice, even grid. As we’ve expanded our habitation across the world, our settlements have always been developed in response to the conditions put forth by geography, climate, socioeconomic health, world events, and profitability. This has resulted in an abundance of empty space existing between homes, businesses, and everything else we construct. Though the source of these spaces is varied, these plots of land more often than not serve little to no purpose despite close proximity to communities that could very much benefit from local sources of companionship or respite. How can we use architectural interventions in order to reprogram neglected, abandoned or overlooked space? What if, rather than allowing these plots to remain vacant and neglected, communities are instead given the opportunity to reprogram these locations to create social retreats that cater to what they will benefit from most as a whole? By supplying a kit of parts that allow communities to select what they know will benefit them most, we become capable of activating these overlooked locations for the physical and mental betterment of those who will get to inhabit them.