Street Races are immensely popular. The illegal races are generally held in peripheral business districts and warehouse areas.
While designing these ‘Business Parks’ it might be a good idea to consider the activities that normally are just a derivative of the real function in an early stage. The hypothesis is that a reciprocal relation between both types of use could come into being: a situation of mutual benefit.
Circuit City optimizes the infrastructure for new Business Areas for driving fast. In the weekends and evenings ‘illegal’ races can take place. And during the day the circuit is a wonderful driveway along which you can park. Official races can be organized that will have a positive effect on the surrounding corporations: the glamour that comes with motorsports will reinforce the ‘dynamic character’ of the entire district, real estate values will go up. Identity, fundamentally lacking from this type of generic environment, can be derived from the additional function: infrastructure becomes Logo.