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Table Of Contents Projects Somerville Blue way..................................................................................
Union Beach.......................................................................................................
Liberty State Park .......................................................................................
Liberty State Park Interpretive Center.......................
Brower Commons........................................................................................
Passion Puddle ..............................................................................................
Field Sketches..................................................................................................
sOMERVILLE pRAXIS sTUDIO Blue Way High Density Redevelopment Plan
The project aims to educate ,celebrate, and gather the public to this site to experience water and its importance to this town. The goal was to create a sublime type of living by taking two extremes and merging them together on this small site. The creation of a stream through the redevelopment area mimics the idea of bringing nature back to the town. The entrance to the development area is a highly designed water feature that would lead the viewer in a central area where green space starts to exapnd out from the water feature. The end of the corridor leads to a naturalistic stream that will let out into the existing stream and two wetlands that will be placed as spill over areas in case of floods. The site aims to use cleaned water from the sparging system to run water through the redevelopment area. A walkway leads you to a space that allows the viewer to experience the system working within the contaminated area.
sOMERVILLE pRAXIS sTUDIO Vision
sOMERVILLE pRAXIS sTUDIO Collaboration Image with Jake Debeor
sOMERVILLE pRAXIS sTUDIO Vision
sOMERVILLE pRAXIS sTUDIO Planting Plan
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This section illustrates the use of the groundwater sparging technique. By bringing the contaminents above ground into these light and water displays it teaches the community and also visitors to the park why they need to remediate the site.
sOMERVILLE pRAXIS sTUDIO Inventory Native Trees/Shrubs
Non-Native Invasive Forbs/Grasses
Non-Native Invasive Trees/Shrubs
These diagrams show native and non native species by there ecological value as well as seasonal value. This coordinates to the planting plan. Native Forbs/Grasses
Union Beach Union Beach was heavily damaged by super storm Sandy. As a design solution for the town to prevent future sea level rise and super storm this design implements canals of water that would replace roads that nwould act as water catchment areas. These canals would create a more sustainable biodiverse living environment. This would allow people to live with the growing environmental changes and adapt. This zoomed in plan shows a memorial park within Union Beach. The canals create a new means of living and also allowing us to view open space and parks differently.
Wetlands Greenway Existing Hydrology Canals Parking Lot
Union Beach Zoomed in Plan
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Union Beach Park Typologies Diagram
This diagram shows the distribution of park typologies. The ones closest to the shore would address the greatest amount of storm surge. The second level of park typology is a topography based park that would also help with storm surge but allow for a greater variety. The last level of park typology is the vegetative. This level of park systems is the safest and also least likely to get damage from storm surge in the near future.
Union Beach Stone Arch memorial Park
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Union Beach Park typology Perspectives
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These two perspectives represent the types of open space and parks Union Beach would implement in order to protect the homes along the coast as well as renew the towns sense of security. Perspective 1 is a structure park that is designed to address storm surge on the coast line. The tiered levels will also allow the town to monitor the sea level rise. These not only act like jettis, but the are useable and can create biodiverse nursery settings. The second perspective addresses parks more in land in the canal system. Tall mounds ands vegetation would act as a buffer for the town in the event of another super storm like Sandy. The parl is not only interactive with the community, but it creates a fundamental way to protecting the community.
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Liberty state Park Perception Of Succession Perception of Succession Perception Of Succession Vegetation
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The design intent is to recreate and represent the succession that has occurred over time at Liberty State Park. This is a way of bringing awareness to visitors and the community through a controlled design. As a visitor enters the site you are brought to the industrial side of the park. The entrance then leads to Liberty Hill. The design intent of this area is to use non-native species that are starting to decline or have faded from the site. Progressing through Liberty State Park you will travel through existing vegetation in successional order. Once you are going through the grasslands, shrub lands, and forested areas you experience specific moments that heighten your experience of the site. The culmination of the site’s history and value ends with enhanced native wetlands that can only be experienced from the path. 0
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Enhanced Native Plant Species Enhanced Native Plant SpeciesThese two planting plans depict the non-native walk and gardens which is shown as Figure 1 and Figure 2. figure one is the non-native walk. Through research the plant species were chosen for there Lawn Area Chinese Silver Grass Field historical connections to the immigrants who came directly from Ellis Island. Figure 2 is the succesLiberty state Park Liberty state Park sional experiential walk through the park. These Enhanced Native Plant Species Enhanced Native Plant Species experiential walkways were enhanced with the naAmerican Silver Berry tive vegetation that would be seen at that stage of (Russian Olive) Forest Weeping Love Grass Field succession. The areas where these plantings happen in figure two are also mainly dominated already Enhanced Native Plant Species by similar types of plant species.
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Enhanced Enhanced Trees Trees -Red -Red Maple Maple -Grey Birch -Grey Birch -White-White Pine Pine
Enhanced Wetlands Enhanced Wetlands -White Pine -White Pine -Red Maple -Red Maple -Panicum -Panicum -Soft rush -Soft rush
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This images show the different experinces along the trail. each are distinctive to the type of vegetation. These different walkway typologies were supposed to bring a new awareness to the visitors of the landscape and a new perspective of how they move through a space.
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Liberty State Park Interpretive CenterCenter Interpretitve Conceptual Plan
This design uses gardens and insects to direct a visitors attention. The gardens are meant to educate children and interact with the different insects in a safe in environment. -The red garden targets plants to attract lady bugs -The green garden targets prey mantis -The yellow garden attracts pollinators such as bees or butterflies -The orange garden targets bird species that nest in the existing tree line -The blue garden is an indoor aquatic garden that would target dragonflies and lightening bugs
Liberty State Park Interpretive Center Sections
The gardens use art pieces that alos help with the maintaince issues. The sculptures act as a watering system that would have routine watering hours. The design also targets materials that can be reused and help educate the kids on not only the different insect and plant species, but also on artful ways of creating these mini habitats.
Liberty State Park Interpretive Center Renderings
Liberty State Park Interpretive Center Perspectives
Brower Commons Existing
Proposed
The redesign proposal after evaluation of the social space incorporates more green space. The Space between Brower Commons inside and outside it heavily utilized by students, and facility at the university. By adding more green space it softens the edges of the space while still allowing students to use the space as they have been.
Passion Puddle Falling lEaves Cooke/Douglass Bus Plaza Conceptual Plan
1�=20’ This project required a functional look at passion puddle. A major part of Cooke/Douglass Campus Rutgers University. As a major part of traffic and activity the main focus was to program this area to become a more functional and sustainable area. In the anaylsis the vehicular traffic was a major problem. In this design there was a focal point on one major bus plaza area that would prevent traffic built up and limit the amount of unnecessary bus stops that litter the campus. This plaza would help the congestion and make the campus more pedestrian friendly by creating these more direct routes. The structure was designed with the intent to mimic the surrounding landscape as well as stand out and create a unique feature exclusive to the environmental campus.
Passion Puddle Falling lEaves Cooke/Douglass Bus Plaza Plan
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Passion Puddle Falling lEaves Cooke/Douglass Bus Plaza Elevations
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Hand Sketches