Danish team lead by Bjarke Ingels, BIG, presents The Dryline, their own vision for the regeneration of the southern part of the NYC island Manhattan, the business area and Battery Park. Although we presented previously in METALOCUS the proposal by the European studio, this time we bring you a new video which show the protection system around Manhattan, from W 54th to the south, Battery Park and to E 40th.
The Dryline consists of multiple but linked design opportunities; each on different scales of time, size and investment; each local neighborhood tailoring its own set of programs, functions, and opportunities. Small, relatively simple projects maintain the resiliency investment momentum post-Sandy, while setting in motion the longer-term solutions that will be necessary in the future.
Description from the video.
The video shows how the ideas of the interantionally well-known Danish team pretend to face different future situations of climatic adversity: a protective big wall which goes over the dryline and which is composed by elements as benches or small constructions which will house public activities as sport areas or other public spaces. Maybe the more valuable idea is the inclusion of a higher number of trees, more vegetation in general, and the construction of small berms which can stop the increase of the water level in extreme situations.
