Rui-Ling
Zhang
To my understanding,
the landscape or our environment can be divided by different systems
or layers. The city is the overlapping of all these different systems
or layers: water (sewage), land, streets, plants, architecture and
so on. In this studio, I try to explore the relationship between these
different systems. And at the same time I try to find some interaction
between some of the systems. All the systems work together serving
as the infrastructure of the city Boston.
Olmsted's Back Bay Fens is a dramatic site within the city with all
the different layers overlapping together. Especially, the gatehouse
in the park serves as the storm water control system for Boston. Then
in this site, water become the most important element connected each
layers.
My design is about people's series experience along with the water.
People leave the "T", trace the path of the water: old conduit; reach
the gatehouse: the new "information center"; through the tunnel across
the river; at the end get the new "education center": people can ascend
the "water tower" to observe the entire park. The goal of my design
is to let people aware and understand the infrastructure of the city
by people's different experience with water; and at the same time,
provide the place for the historical education purpose and raising
the sights of the city. |
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