PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

SEMESTER 1

FALL

LAYE

‘Reconnecting the disconnected narratives’

MENTOR : ARIANE HARRISON

SITE : REDHOOK, BROOKLYN

PROGRAM : COASTAL RESILIENCY STRATEGY

RedHook as a site is rather complex and has several layers and gradients across it. Each of these layers have specific characteristics owing to the different problems such as flooding, isolation and lack of transport connectivity, that have arisen in RedHook over time and disconnected the once cohesive narrative of RedHook.

The project aims to deploy a mix of blue green infrastructural approach in a layered urban context. A combination of terracing and 75,000 sq ft of public walkways interspersed with “pause” moments attempts to re-weave a narrative that has been tethered over time across RedHook anchored at multi-functional nodes.

The terraces create a series of retention ponds that function progressively in stages creating a temporal water landscape which could deal with flooding and can hold up to 80,000 cubic m, 120,000 cubic m and 160,000 cubic m in the three stages respectively. The intervention aims to revitalize and re-engage the area adding to it cultural, recreational as well as maintaining its historic value each as independently functioning layers yet interconnected and cohesive to form the urban fabric.

UNFLOODED SCENARIO

MID LEVEL FLOODED SCENARIO

FULLY FLOODED SCENARIO