Author Archives: Geoffrey Dyck and Claudia Ibaven

Heckscher Park

By Geoffrey Dyck and Claudia Ibaven | Published: August 24, 2010
Heckscher Park, a mostly concrete space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, was the focus of our team’s project. Distilling some of the park’s key issues – underutilization, poor connectivity, superfluous fencing, few trees, and inefficient storm water drainage – we came up with a series objectives, ultimately leading to three overarching recommendations. We propose that certain measures [...]
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The Flushing Community

By admin | Published: June 18, 2010
This design took us figuratively, proposing a way to get people thinking about stormwater and the pollution it triggers when it matters most. Connecting.nyc seeks to organize a “Flushing Community” (starting with Flushing, Queens…of course) to stop pollution at its source by creating awareness of the consequences of flushing during periods of rain, when combined [...]
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ARUP

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
Recognizing the city’s capacity for change, ARUP developed a phased approach to bring our stormwater system from passive conveyance into active resource. Starting today, in “Phase 0”, the design rolls out on Chambers St. from Centre St. to Hudson River in lower Manhattan, through Phase 1:Porous City, Phase 2:Botanical City” and finally Phase 3:Shared City.
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dlandstudio

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
The Sponge Park™ plan from dlandstudio proposes a “strategy of urban stitching, connecting the public and private lands adjacent to the water, to create a continuous esplanade with recreational spaces” spanning the Gowanus Canal. This design calls attention to the complex site control aspect of stormwater management.
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Robin Key Landscape Architecture

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
Robin Key Landscape Architecture selected Carmine Street as their Minds in the Gutter site for its historical hydrologic significance to the island of Manhattan. An overlay of a 1609 Townsend MacCoun map of Manhattan reveals Minetta Creek as it once flowed south and west along the modern day Carmine Street eventually entering a tidal wetland [...]
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W Architecture and Landscape Architecture

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
W Architecture and Landscape Architecture identifies the underutilized street ends along 25% of the city’s shoreline as an opportunity to apply their prototypical “marine streets”, a new edge typology that would mitigate both the upland urban runoff and climatic tidal surges.
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Brooklyn Greenroof

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
Brooklyn Greenroof proposes retrofitting a percentage of sidewalks with a permeable patchwork of cobbles and various patterned steel grates. With almost 700 million square feet of sidewalk surface in NYC, modifying just 25% of the city’s sidewalk area could capture three hundred million gallons of water annually.
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eDesign Dynamics for Sustainable South Bronx

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
In collaboration with Sustainable South Bronx and Drexel University, eDesign Dynamics designed this street tree pit to capture 100 cubic feet of runoff, the quantity of runoff that flows by this gutter during a 0.25 inch storm. Water that has entered the tree pit will spread out virtually unrestricted to cover the entire planting area, [...]
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NYC Department of Environmental Protection and Gaia Institute

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
The Department of Environmental Protection worked with the Gaia Institute on this project as part of a three-year pilot study program to implement and monitor several stormwater management techniques within the Jamaica Bay watershed. The results of this pilot study will be used by the DEP to develop design guidelines.
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Greenstreets

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
Greenstreets is a citywide greening and urban beautification program created by New York City Department of Parks & Recreation that converts unused spaces within the right-of-way into small gardens. Several Greenstreets actively collect stormwater runoff while providing safe thoroughfare for pedestrians and improved urban habitat. This site, on Church Avenue in Brooklyn, contains a bioswale [...]
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