ideas after mardi gras break
February 8, 2008
As i said before, i would like to do some sort of earth works. I guess i would really like this park to be different in that way, so that people from all around the community will come and join this surrounding neighborhood. I still havent thought of a concept or been able to assign one word to describe what i want to make, but i guess it has to do with the history of the site, and making the soil and the site itself the main character of the experience. In other words, i feel that this community and site itself have gone through so much that new hardscapes shouldn’t represent the future; instead prove that what once was, was nearly destroyed, but still IS.In a way, “hope” is what i am going for…and that these emerging and sinking earthworks could come to represent the highs and lows of the lives of the community members and their experiences. Yet, because they have overcome all of these obstacles that are now in the past, they are able to live through them and shoot(hope) for a happier future.
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Andrew | February 9, 2008 at 12:09 am
Interesting idea of different ground planes. Should fit in well with the topographic studies.
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andrea | February 9, 2008 at 7:58 am
i also really like your earthworks idea. since the area is so flat, a more dynamic topography with cool mounds or swales would be very striking. and i think the kids would love it. i like that earthworks are about the soil and the site itself. like the site is taking what it already has and reinventing itself anew.
i found a website w/ a bunch of links about earthworks. i briefly looked through some and i don’t know it any will be helpful, but perhaps you could get some design inspiration:
http://www.earthworks.org/links.html
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amycpia | February 10, 2008 at 6:32 am
look up the park that James Corner aka field operations, did in Spain. Mounds like big moguls provide high ground. The dips between them have some special permeability that allows them to fill with water in case of a lot of rain or swelling of the river. Go to the field operations web site and look for the spain proj. I think there is only one.