Hearing Barry Bergdoll's detailed description of each of the 5 sites on the Boat Tour last month, made the models in the exhibition tangible, less futuristic. Good thing too because the graphics of the dramatic shoreline change paint a scary future.
"If there is a 6 foot sea level, all of lower Manhattan is flooded..."
In response, the team for
Zone 0: A New Urban Ground, propose a design that creates estuaries viewing the city as a whole system
"21% of the city is understood to be underwater. ..by introducing more ecology, it becomes more of a place of respect .. more sublime"
With 2 miles of continuous coastline, there will be multiple ways to move along it in the proposal for Statue of Liberty Park, Zone 1, which reconnects to New Jersey with a system of land & water & transportation.
Michael Baird, Zone 2: Working Waterline, continues the merging of water and land with no conflict between industry & parks. "By engaging the oil tanks rather than merely co-existing with them there is a commitment to cultural archeology of the Bay."
"The New Aqueous Borough, Zone 3,-Palisade will use inflatable barriers already in use in 2000 examples on public waterfront...the housing will build from the roof down each structure treating waste, lazor cut and assembled 20 ft"
Voices from the teams share their inspiration throughout the exhibition in video interviews.
"The scuba diving students of the Harbor School, in High School now, were my inspiration, they will be the gardeners of the renewed harbor." Kate Orff, Zone 4 Oyster-Tecture.
Now woven into the process, viewers are transported to the project vision of a more aquatic, ecological New York City.
Tues Aug 17 Center For Architecture MOMA Boat Tour REGISTER http://bit.ly/aia-ny - So Street Seaport Pier 17
See for yourself the five sites included in MoMA’s exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront (March 24 – October 11, 2010). http://bit.ly/RCVideo.
Zone 0: A New Urban Ground,
Stephen Cassell, Adam Yarinsky, Architecture Research Office Susannah Drake, dlandstudio Site: Lower Manhattan
Zone 1: Water Proving Ground
Team Leaders: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL Architects)
Site: Liberty State Park
Zone 2: Working Waterline
Team Leader: Matthew Baird
Matthew Baird Architects
Site: Kill Van Kull and Bayonne
Zone 3: New Aqueous City: A Zoning Ordinance for a Regional Metropolis
Team Leaders: Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang
nARCHITECTS
Site: Sunset Park, Bay Ridge and Staten Island
Zone 4: Oyster-Tecture
Team Leader: Kate Orff
SCAPE / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PLLC
Site: Gowanus Canal and Buttermilk Channel
