Animated presentation of my first two years of studio work in the MLA program at Penn. Click to play.
A detail of the phasing sections showing the constructed wetland with the composting berms in the distance.
Plan of Horizontal Integration: a hybrid dredged soil reclamation operation and urban public park.
Sections showing the design and phasing of the park over time.
The composted soil is used to construct a new ground.
In phase 2, the park is planted with meadow and forest vegetation and begins to be occupied with public program.
Sequential sections showing the construction of the park from the composted soil over time.
A sectional model of the park.
Horizontal Integration
For the second half of the 502 studio, we were asked to design a park on a 170 acre post-industrial site on the North Delaware River, taking into consideration the larger urban context. My project builds on the existing shipping infrastructure, activating the site by receiving, storing and composting dredge material from the river. The dredged material is used to reconstruct the site and provide a rich environment for new plantings.
As the land is revitalized and recovered, the infrastructure built for constructing the site is modified to become the circulation system for a new park. The topography, planting, and circulation evolves over time as the operational processes are replaced by public program.
Once the park has been constructed, soil is shipped from the site to reconstruct other derelict land within the city. The park is a prototype of a system that could be deployed to the many other vacant shipping parcels along the Delaware River