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Envisioning Gateway- SCENE OVERLOOKED
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SCENE OVERLOOKEDGateway
National Recreation Area is a vast park, geographically disconnected on land
but proximate by sea. Boundaries between land and water are blurred at night where
wetland and wildlife refuge are free of city lights. The territory of the park
for wildlife is very clear and easy to access from air or sea by birds and fish
who take advantage of the safety of night migrations.
Darkness
of the estuary contrasts with the urban grid of roads that provide access to
people. Understood from a very particular vantage point the boundary line between
light and dark marks the edge of habitats. This proposal springs from the
blurred boundary condition of night flight. The tower and tunnel solutions seek
to elucidate this condition where vertical organization is used as an effort to
clarify/promote park ecologies, and the reclaimant plantings educate future
generations on the importance of maintaining the estuary’s natural functions.
Strategy:
Visibility
Many
national parks have awe inspiring vistas with educational programs that help
visitors understand the place. Gateway is large, relatively flat and very
complex in all that it offers but has no means to be easily legible.
To
facilitate understanding of the site we propose to engage the historical
landscapes of the park by reactivating the former municipal airport terminal at
Floyd Bennett Field and its existing system of departure/arrival tunnels and
constructing a new regional landmark tower in the center of the site. More than merely a means to holistic and
referential views, the tower will provide educational programming and
exhibition space highlighting the geographic, cultural, historical, ecological
and natural features of the site.
Tunnel
access to the tower will reveal strata of the site creating subsurface
visibility. From glacial deposits of the Pleistocene era to its industrial use
as a municipal landfill, the layers tell a rich and varied story. Programming
at its origin will convey information about cultural and historical landscape
including aviation history and then transition to data on ecology, geology,
composition of fill and ultimately the water column.
Stewardship
The
ultimate goal is to draw people into the site so they become connected to it in
an emotional and physical sense. This is how neglected areas of land become
cherished landscapes. The natural gradual reclamation of the runways is a key
part of this strategy. The dynamic qualities of nature reclaiming hard surfaces
of asphalt and stone occur on a generational timeline so that the young person
visiting the park can return with their young children and eventually their
grandchildren to observe the area’s changes, the site changing along with the
user population.
Access
Access
to the site is improved by creating a new ferry circuit with stops at each park
in the Gateway National Recreation area, adding a Class 1 bike lane to connect
to the larger bike network, and installing a new light rail along the length of
Flatbush Avenue stretching from Brooklyn Bridge Park past Prospect Park. This
will connect Floyd Bennett Field to the larger Brooklyn community and to MarineParkwayBridge to Jacob Riis Park
& Fort Tilden.
National Recreation Area is a vast park, geographically disconnected on land
but proximate by sea. Boundaries between land and water are blurred at night where
wetland and wildlife refuge are free of city lights. The territory of the park
for wildlife is very clear and easy to access from air or sea by birds and fish
who take advantage of the safety of night migrations.
Darkness
of the estuary contrasts with the urban grid of roads that provide access to
people. Understood from a very particular vantage point the boundary line between
light and dark marks the edge of habitats. This proposal springs from the
blurred boundary condition of night flight. The tower and tunnel solutions seek
to elucidate this condition where vertical organization is used as an effort to
clarify/promote park ecologies, and the reclaimant plantings educate future
generations on the importance of maintaining the estuary’s natural functions.
Strategy:
Visibility
Many
national parks have awe inspiring vistas with educational programs that help
visitors understand the place. Gateway is large, relatively flat and very
complex in all that it offers but has no means to be easily legible.
To
facilitate understanding of the site we propose to engage the historical
landscapes of the park by reactivating the former municipal airport terminal at
Floyd Bennett Field and its existing system of departure/arrival tunnels and
constructing a new regional landmark tower in the center of the site. More than merely a means to holistic and
referential views, the tower will provide educational programming and
exhibition space highlighting the geographic, cultural, historical, ecological
and natural features of the site.
Tunnel
access to the tower will reveal strata of the site creating subsurface
visibility. From glacial deposits of the Pleistocene era to its industrial use
as a municipal landfill, the layers tell a rich and varied story. Programming
at its origin will convey information about cultural and historical landscape
including aviation history and then transition to data on ecology, geology,
composition of fill and ultimately the water column.
Stewardship
The
ultimate goal is to draw people into the site so they become connected to it in
an emotional and physical sense. This is how neglected areas of land become
cherished landscapes. The natural gradual reclamation of the runways is a key
part of this strategy. The dynamic qualities of nature reclaiming hard surfaces
of asphalt and stone occur on a generational timeline so that the young person
visiting the park can return with their young children and eventually their
grandchildren to observe the area’s changes, the site changing along with the
user population.
Access
Access
to the site is improved by creating a new ferry circuit with stops at each park
in the Gateway National Recreation area, adding a Class 1 bike lane to connect
to the larger bike network, and installing a new light rail along the length of
Flatbush Avenue stretching from Brooklyn Bridge Park past Prospect Park. This
will connect Floyd Bennett Field to the larger Brooklyn community and to MarineParkwayBridge to Jacob Riis Park
& Fort Tilden.
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