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English Kills CSO Wetland

By Alexa Fabrega and Patrick Wickman">Alexa Fabrega and Patrick Wickman | Published: September 30, 2011
Our proposal is to create a subsurface wetland system, which would be designed similarly to a tub or dam. The wetland would be self contained and framed within the confines of the East Branch of Newtown Creek extending as far out as the current floatables boom. The proposal wetland area would be 200 feet wide [...]
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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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Team HAKA

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
Former classmates on team HAKA retrofit the Harlem River span Highbridge with a design that repurposes the former aqueduct as a self-irrigating greenway and a stormwater management system that would capture approximately one million gallons of water per year.
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Sang-ayunan

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
Team Sang-ayunan, calls their design a “Curbolution”. They create a pedestrian-friendly new curb for Rockefeller Plaza that tucks a compact bioswale right into the gutter. Team Sang-ayunan are classmates from Cornell University.
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