Elevated Infrastructure and Public Space: Reclaiming the Ground Below

Bentway Staging Grounds / Agency-Agency + SHEEEP. Image © Samuel EngelkingElevation is often framed as progress, lifting movement above the friction of the city and smoothing circulation into uninterrupted flow. Every act of lifting produces a secondary condition in its wake. Beneath flyovers, metro lines, and railway viaducts, a second ground emerges as shaded, ambiguous, and rarely planned with the same intent as what moves above. These spaces are not incidental leftovers. They are the sp