At the foot of the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City, WRT reconceived and reimagined the existing site infrastructure as an urban green machine with two new parks. Integrating water, wind, solar, and other environmental systems within the layered structures of bridges, roadways, elevated trains, and subways, the project humanizes the massive infrastructure at Dutch Kills Green.
New structures were designed to latch on to, cut through, build under, grow over, and link vertically, in order to make use of interstitial spaces and underused sites. Slivers of green, patchwork gardens, and strips of water retention, all dappled through restructured patterns of movement, grow on-site, providing layers of vegetation to clean air and stormwater as well as mitigate noise pollution.
