Coastal Construction - The Green Infrastructure to Celebrate Humanity

The aesthetic: to unite construction and evolution.______

The vision: an integrated environmental system, nested on either side of Manhattan’s Harlem River, that not only facilitates effective water management in the existing urban fabric but also creates a park where nature and architecture become one—a multi-functional green infrastructure to celebrate humanity. ______

Our goal is user-based, transforming the steep landscape between city and waterfront into a network for leisure, art, communal activities, local agriculture, biodiversity and recycling of wastewater. Citizens define the aliveness of any landscape; we provide and welcome everyone to a space where that aliveness can take flight. As visitors acclimate to the rhythms of the park, at once choreographed and indeterminate, they encounter a virtual body of spaces academic, artistic, productive and organic. From education to exhibition, creative expression to exchange, visitors navigate a hydrostatic arrangement that takes full advantage of the gradients at hand, following the flow of local waters and the orientations of city and river. The project’s structural elements extend from landscaping principles and integrate seamlessly into the surrounding environment. ______

We unfold nature and art along the entire landscape as independent yet connected programs, eliminating architectural boundaries and treating the site as a single artistic incubator that nurtures the development of humanity. ______

Once fully occupied by fast-growing foreign plant species, brought in half a century ago to solve the soil erosion problem following urbanization, now the riversides thrive on local agriculture, stimulating local animal species and boosting biodiversity. ______

At once habitable and aesthetically beautiful, the entire complex provides programmed spaces for the foreseeable future.______

Team : Karbi Chan, Matthew. P. Gordon, Benjamin Johnson, Songwei

Advisor : David Mah & Leyre Asensio Villoria