BREACHING CONEY ISLAND
Collaborators
Laura Mackenzie, Maria Goula
Coney Island is a historic seaside district in Brooklyn. Since its devastation by Hurricane Sandy, Coney Island has suffered from more erratic and severe floods driven by climate change. With a particular emphasis on community engagement, our studio was tasked with designing a more resilient Coney Island.
Flooding is remembering where water once was. An analysis of Coney Island’s historic coast, as well as an understanding of runoff and sewage led us to the hypothesis that an engineered breach may provide relief to floodwater accumulation, as well as provide a corridor to reconnect ecological habitat and reactive local character.
FINDING SPATIAL OPPORTUNITY
BREACHING TO RECONNECT LOCAL PLACES
CONSTRUCT DRAINAGE NETWORK AND HABITAT
Building Buyouts
Riprap
Historic Building Databse
Parking Lot Buyouts
Nursery Marsh
Open Space
Retention Plaza
Drainage Corridor, Pedestrian Connection
Vacant Storefront
Coney
Baugher, S., Frantz, G. (2022). Refugees, Resettlement, and Revealed History: Archaeologists, Planners, Native Americans, and Landowners Working Together to Create Tutelo Park.
Groves of old white pines provide a network of roots that stabilize wetland forest edges and delineate view corridors.As the incidence of flooding increases, aquatic vegetation and forest debris buffer and filter water flows while simultaneously providing new habitat for a wetland ecosystem.
200 YEARS PROJ. (4) SAPONI PARK
