2012 lagi design competition for freshkills park
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Project • By Yunxin Hu and Ben Smith • Exhibitions
Pivot- Third Place Mention at 2012 LAGI design competition
Central to Freshkills’ future is the fluctuating nature of its two key conditions—the gradual sinking of its landfill and rising of its surrounding sea level—making our challenge how to transform these potential problems into opportunities for land art. PIVOT answers with two intertwining operations: a floating ‘terra nova’ constructed at the moving line between these conditions that frame it while replacing lost terrain; and a gathering of the human and wind energies flowing along ‘the Kill/Confluence.’
PIVOT
01. as landscape relations
adjective, turning on as if on a pivot
At Freshkills Park the edge between land and water is significant as the ‘pivot’ on which these two environments hinge. The edge is home to many plant and animal... More
Project • By Scott Rosin, Meaghan Hunter, Danielle Loeb, Emeka Nnadi, Kara McDowell, Jocelyn Chorney, Indrajit Mitra, Narges Ayat, Denis Fleury • Exhibitions
99 Red Balloons
“99 dreams I have had,
In everyone a red balloon,
It’s all over and I’m standin’ pretty
In this dust that was a city.
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you, and let it go” (99 Luftballoons, Nena, 1984.)
An excerpt from the 1984 song “99 Red Balloons”, this verse evokes visions of loss, hope, memory, and the perseverance of dreams for a redemptive and meaningful future. Inspired by these images, “99 Red Balloons” is a thoughtful proposal for a metaphorical souvenir - proof that something redeeming and beautiful can rise out of the ‘dust’ that has been placed on the land by human activity and the accumulation of society’s waste.
In this proposal, North Park is covered... More
Project • By James Murray, Shota Vashakmadze • Exhibitions
Scene Sensor // Crossing Social and Ecological Flows
Key interactions of human and ecological energies, above and below the surface of Freshkills, drive complex environmental flows, allowing us to question how to sense, channel, and harness their energies in a productive tension, revealing their interconnected fluctuations in beneficial ways.
Scene-Sensor situates itself at the intersection of flows joining and separating opposing landforms: as a channel screen, harnessing the flows of wind through the tidal artery, and as vantage points, staging crosswise pedestrian flows through the park, the two acting in combination as a mirror-window, reflecting and revealing the scene of Freshkills’ fluctuating landscape back to itself.
The undulating landforms, both above and below the surface, a... More
Project • By Matthew Rosenberg • Exhibitions
Fresh Hills
As we approach Fresh Hills, the undulating mounds appear to be natural elements growing from the earth. The closer we get, however, it is clear that this structure, like the mounds below it, are not native to the recently capped Fresh Kills Landfill site. Its form rests lightly on the existing topography and creates definition across the expansive horizon. It caresses the East mound, creating a seamless integration between utility-scale energy harnessing and a program-filled landscape. It creates a harmonious relationship between earth and wind. Fresh Hills is a remedy for the typical turbine farm that so often isolates the landscape and discourages communities from engaging the space.
The artificial landscape lifts higher at levels of i... More