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Pedro Miguel Locks Gatun Locks
Gulf of Panama
Pacific Ocean
-’Just Cause’
invasion damage
-’Just Cause’
invasion damage
-’Just Cause’
invasion damage
-integrate el chorrillo into city
roads and urban programs
-activate waterfront with civic space event spaces -restore native ecosystems mangrove forest rehabilitation -clean polluted water water refineries, pods and islands -create identity memorial, waterfront and islands -improve tidal function islands
transforming with water and ground
urban design in el chorrillo - design
goals
Mangrove Pods Event Spaces Memorial Lights Mangrove Islands
urban design overview
New
ont r f r Wate
existing - abandoned waterfront
existing - broken street grid
proposed - incremental forms
proposed - street grid connected to ocean
streams take pollutants and sediment into the ocean
vegetated area development
currents carry sediment westward
amador peninsula collects sediments and pollution; long tidal ebbs and flows deposit pollution in bay in front of el chorrillo, unable to clean out sediments and take them out to sea
pollution - ocean currents
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Museum of Biodiversity
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
upland
high marsh
low marsh
monthly high tide high tide average tide
white mangrove
black mangrove
red mangrove
low tide
freshwater moves out as tide recedes
mixing
mangrove
saltwater moves in as tide rises
mangrove
mixing
existing bathymetry
Islands improve water flow to inlet by creating underwater ‘swales’
proposed bathymetry
existing tides
Islands improve water flow to inlet by creating underwater ‘swales’
proposed tides
image: kim true with ken mccown
image: kim true with ken mccown
image: kim true with ken mccown
image: kim true with ken mccown
Invasion Memorial
image: henry fleischmann with ken mccown
image: henry fleischmann with ken mccown
image: ana tabuena with ken mccown
image: mario benito
transforming with water and ground
el chorrillo, panama - design
team
-ken mccown, samantha sears, kim true, henry fleischmann, ana tabuena, debbie enos, isby swick, yarnie chen, kim wehinger