Creek Show

Austin, TX | Asakura Robinson

Creek Show is an annual 10-day festival of luminescent art installations along a stretch of Waller Creek in downtown Austin. The event raises the visibility of the planned Waller Creek Park District, an ambitious vision to revitalize both the creek and a chain of parks. Installations were selected by a jury of creek stakeholders.

My team’s submittal for the show comprised of common iconic poolside furniture treated with a DayGlo powder-coat finish, activated by high intensity LED black lights. A neon sign enticed and cautioned visitors: NO LIFEGUARD ON DUTY

The exhibit entertained more than 15,000 visitors, allowing them to experience an immersive and highly interactive cabana club on the creek.

Dallas Water Gardens

Dallas, TX | Asakura Robinson

The Dallas Water Gardens is a proposed public-private partnership to create a vibrant public realm adjacent to the high speed rail station that is currently in development. Situated along the original meanders of the Trinity River, the project would also signifigantly improve the water quality , public access, and ecological function of existing neglected flood con trol ponds that were created by the Army Corps of Engineers. As project manager, I worked closely with Tetratech hydrologists and the NCTCOG to create a project that dreamed big, but was scientifically rigerous.

THE RIVERS/ HIGH SPEED RAIL ROAD NETWORK (APPROXIMATE)

CONCEPT DIAGRAM- POND 4

Scope note: Image above was created by an employee under my supervision