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Battery Playscape
Battery Playscape
Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
Finalist, 2024 A+Awards, Landscape & Planning - Public Parks and Green Spaces
Project Featured on Nov 14, 2024
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Battery Playscape
Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
Finalist, 2024 A+Awards, Landscape & Planning - Public Parks and Green Spaces
Project Featured on Nov 14, 2024
Firm
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
The Battery Playscape is located at the tip of Manhattan where land meets sea, locals meet tourists, and the bustle of the city yields to the presence of nature. Ecologically, the site is a dynamic confluence of water and land, including a partly natural - partly constructed coastline that has been altered over time.
Conceived after Hurricane Sandy, the 1.5-acre Playscape responds to the site’s past and future flooding by telling the story of resilience, interwoven with play. It is the last piece of the Battery Conservancy’s Masterplan which envisioned a verdant future for the then-dilapidated park. The Playscape realizes that vision through accessible, full body play immersed in planting, natural landforms, and visible water management. Opened in 2021, it is built to flood and recover, part of the embedded climate change narrative.
The project’s architecture and landscape architecture instill a sense of environmental responsibility, encouraging locals and the Battery’s many international visitors to envision coastal cities that work with – rather than against – natural forces. The project tangibly demonstrates how the best practices of resilient design can offer a rich play experience – one that deeply connects children to natural elements and the realities of climate change, while expanding their creative capacity.
On the premise that early appreciation for ecological diversity fosters environmental stewardship in adulthood, the Playscape’s five zones are designed around a landscape typology from the Hudson River Valley. The zones represent ways land and water meet in nature – Bluff, Meadow, Riverbed, Marsh, and Dune. Each typology encourages site specific play – standing atop the Bluff to view the harbor, peeking out of the grasses in the Meadow or running up and down the Dunes. Custom play structures encourage interactivity through tall stone slides, multi-level playhouses, and performance space at the Showbox Theater. The Battery Playscape is a revitalized urban landscape serving as a respite from the urban chaos and an example of the built environment in symbiosis with nature.
Conceived after Hurricane Sandy, the 1.5-acre Playscape responds to the site’s past and future flooding by telling the story of resilience, interwoven with play. It is the last piece of the Battery Conservancy’s Masterplan which envisioned a verdant future for the then-dilapidated park. The Playscape realizes that vision through accessible, full body play immersed in planting, natural landforms, and visible water management. Opened in 2021, it is built to flood and recover, part of the embedded climate change narrative.
The project’s architecture and landscape architecture instill a sense of environmental responsibility, encouraging locals and the Battery’s many international visitors to envision coastal cities that work with – rather than against – natural forces. The project tangibly demonstrates how the best practices of resilient design can offer a rich play experience – one that deeply connects children to natural elements and the realities of climate change, while expanding their creative capacity.
On the premise that early appreciation for ecological diversity fosters environmental stewardship in adulthood, the Playscape’s five zones are designed around a landscape typology from the Hudson River Valley. The zones represent ways land and water meet in nature – Bluff, Meadow, Riverbed, Marsh, and Dune. Each typology encourages site specific play – standing atop the Bluff to view the harbor, peeking out of the grasses in the Meadow or running up and down the Dunes. Custom play structures encourage interactivity through tall stone slides, multi-level playhouses, and performance space at the Showbox Theater. The Battery Playscape is a revitalized urban landscape serving as a respite from the urban chaos and an example of the built environment in symbiosis with nature.
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