Landscape Studio : Spring 2015

Collaboration: Amanda Alexander

Critic: Fleet Hower

This landscape architecture studio was aimed to reimagine the Brooklyn Navy Yards through the use of grasshopper simulations and material studies. Material studies included hot wax being poured over ice shards, to create ephemeral forms that started to create interesting subdivisonal spaces. The organic patterns formed through the material studies were then transferred into two dimensional manipulation through the exploration of grasshopper. This resulted in an observation of organic circulatory movement, which formed the basis of our design. 

We chose to have a developmental approach to the project, reconfiguring the navy yards into a point of access from Manhattan, featuring a new naval port as well as residential, office, commercial spaces, integrated together through green roof access systems.