The Arc bridge connects buildings and spaces in the park, as well as being a platform for urban activities such as markets and cultural events. A collaboration with My Ly and Huei Ming Juang.
In the past, the area functioned as a watershed drainage basin, supporting a limited set of programs.
Currently, the lakes are damned to create agricultural reservoirs, which still only supports a relative monoculture of programs.
Our design for the park creates a complete urban water infrastructure that supports agriculture, energy generation, water purification, and a complete and connected urban living environment.
Integrated urban water infrastructure
An aerial perspective view of the park and city. A collaboration with Jen Martel.
A diagram depicting the various layers of the park design and how they interact to complete the cycles of park and city.
The park is designed to work with the region's water systems, both natural and constructed, providing clean water to feed a vast productive landscape.
Floating wetlands on the upper lake. A collaboration with My Ly and Huei Ming Juang.
The habitats of the park will be restored and diversified, providing a home for a variety of native species as well as new hybrid landscapes to explore.
A walkway over the upper lake splits and dips into the wetland habitat, allowing visitors to experience the water from above and below. A collaboration with My Ly and Huei Ming Juang.
A layer of the park is devoted to sustainable energy generation and carbon sequestration.
A canopy walk through the Poplar bio-mass forest. A collaboration with My Ly and Huei Ming Juang.
The park provides an array of exercise and recreation opportunities, as well as community gardens and farms for food production.
Community gardens and urban farms in the fertile soil between the two lakes.
The Arc, a living bridge that connects the two lakes as well as the major buildings within the park, is the central circulation spine of the park.
Gwanggyo Lakeside Park
I worked with a team at WRT on this competition for a new park in Gwanggyo, Korea. Gwanggyo Lakeside Park lies at the confluence of two regional watersheds - a receiving basin for the Mt. Gwanggyo water system. Over time, this water system has been modified to support human activity. A hydrological landscape once altered to create damned reservoirs for agricultural fields now awaits transformation into a new type of urban park. Our proposal envisioned Gwanggyo Lakeside Park as an integrated urban water infrastructure that works symbiotically with the city to cultivate community, economic development, well-being, and complete and connected urban lives.
A model for 21st century park design, our proposal works as a giant living machine for the new city development: cleaning storm water, recycling its refuse, generating energy, absorbing carbon, restoring the native ecosystem, producing food, and improving air quality. The park completes the incomplete cycles of conventional urban development: water, habitat, carbon, food, and health.
I was deeply involved in creating the conceptual framework for our competition entry, as well as the diagrams to support our concept. Several of the diagrams received special mention from the competition jury. I worked collaboratively with other members of the team on perspective views, plans and sections. I also created a 3D model of the design, both landscape and structures, to be used as a base for our other drawings.
Nov2008
Professional
Firm
- Wallace Roberts & Todd
Competition
Gwanggyo Lakeside Park Competition
Collaborators
- Abdallah Tabet
- Dan Affleck
- Julie Peng
- Yong-Woo Lee
- My Ly
- Woo Kim
- Jiin Son
- Misa Chen
- Jennifer Martel
- Huei-Ming Juang