CEREMONIAL UNBUILT

# climate change

# memorial landscape

# parking transformation

“let’s witness the city retreat through a memorial unbuilt of hardscape that was once above the water”

Harvard Graduate School of Design | Fall 2019 Instructors

Collaborators

The Boston harbor is rising, salt waters will flow inland, flooding the city both episodically and chronically. The water will touch the fabric of the city, overwhelmingly comprised of hard materials, primarily asphalt. As a response to the inevitable water progress, this design takes the loss of land as an opportunity to unbuild hardscape for ecological remediation. The transformation of parking lots to urban ecology and, with time, to marine ecology, provides space for neighborhood learning and conversing around the emotional and physical processes of retreat under the threat of climate change.