Picnic Terrace

Plan Strategy:

1. Redistribute soil along Charles river and reuse the materials from dismantling infrastructures by human labor. We define three marginal edges based on flood risk zones and their potentials of retreating: cut, filled and not changed. Cut areas are places where could be transferred into flood rooms and protect other places, while filled places are receiving soils and being protected. Materials from infrastructure are produced into different shapes to trap sediments that set foundations for natural agencies come into play. w 2. After dam removal, there will be different salinity along the Charles river and we propose to disperse a variety of salt-tolerant plant seeds in different places to let the land success itself and plants could also act as indicators for salt condition. You can play with the plant and river wheel model on our table later. Then we zoom into three examples can be pioneered along this new harbor- dam area as tidal wetland, BackBay waterfront as barrier island and Austin area as flooding canal.