CONNECTIONS
Eco Spots
Create a new access to water. Reduce the building area. Increase area with natural lighting
Create flexible modular DIVERSITY OF ACTIVITIES spaces that recreate situations in waterfront
NATURAL LIGHTING
Provide natural lighting creating openings in the building or usign optic fiber for the area under the building and pier
INCREASE GREEN SURFACE
Increase green infrastructure and public space in waterfront
Patty Chen Jorge Alarcon
Create “ eco spots”* for adapting architecture and landscape in site to achieve ecological animation goals. The ecospots are part of all elements in the landscape and architectural propossal, from the site scale to the micro scale. *Eco spot: group of strategies that integrates green infrastructure, human activities and phisical characteristics.
Create a new public REDEFINING PUBLIC AND space, integrate public PRIVATE SPACE private space
Leaves, insects and floating wetlands improve INCREASING BIOMASS IN habitat for juvenile salmon. WATER It provides food and biomass
Google Maps 2014
SITE: [Alaskan Way, Pier 66]
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View from access plaza
1. Access plaza 2. Cafes and restaurants 3. Main plaza and floating wetland 4. Educational gardens and wetlands 5. Access to water 6. Cruise terminal plaza (dock access)
7. Service access for cruise terminal 8. Cruise terminal access (street access) 9. Tide pool 10. Gatering areas 11. Convention center plaza (flexible plaza)
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Ecological garden
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Shade structure
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Walking with the Salmon
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View from the top park
1. Access to upper park 2. Cafes and restaurants 3. Ecological garden 4. Multipurpose plaza
5. Maze 6. Sitting area 7. Shade structure and solar panels 8. Hanging gardens
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A. Hanging plants and adjacent vegetation from the upper park drop leaves and insects into the water. It improves the habitat for fish in the site. B. The double skin in the building -landscape provide shelter for birds.
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C. Shade structures with solar panels provide shelter and electricty to the building and landscape.
D. A platform allows visitors to get close to the wetland and appreciate technologies involved in the project. In order to engage the community with the project and reflect about the habitat in the site.
E. Parabolic mirrors integrated in furniture capture natural light and provide natural lighting under the building and pier. This condition is fundamental for improving salmon habitat. F. The center piece of the learning space is the wetland. It improves the habitat conditions for the salmon and other species of insects, birds, fish, etc. The structure is a group of bamboo hexagons that frame layers of mesh with soil. The plants resist salt conditions of the water such as douglas aster, salt weed, pacific waterferm, sea-milkwort, etc.
Education wetland park
Top view of the wetland
WALKING WITH THE SALMON
TEMPORARY INSTALLATION: • • • • • • • •
It reflects about the existing habitat in waterfront. It has a playful aesthetic that invites children to engache with the project. Invites people to walk under structure. It defines spaces, plazas, paths, etc. It is light and portable. Simple structure with natural and recycled materials. lt is the focus of attention during day and night. The topic of the salmon has a potential expansion in other contexts: save the salmon, salmon sourvenirs, audit the lamps, salmon day, etc.