- The Lowline will use new solar technology to transform an historic NYC trolley terminal into the world's first underground park.
With this cutting-edge technology, they plan to build the world's very first underground "park," featuring live plants and trees!
It turns out there is a 107-year-old former trolley station-- untouched since 1948-- right below Delancey Street in the center of New York City's Lower East Side neighborhood. All the old architectural details are still there, and right now it sits in one of the most crowded neighborhoods in a very crowded city. Their dream is to take that space back and transform it into a beautiful public gathering space.
To make the Lowline a reality, their next step is the construction of an ambitious Lowline Lab-- a long-term solar device testing laboratory and public exhibition to test and display their tech and design vision-- and they need your help to build it!
They are getting so close to raising enough funding on Kickstarter to build the Lab, but we still need your support. Will you support them today?
This is the final exhibition, featuring a live green space with a solar canopy and Lowline technology overhead.
Now just a forgotten slice of New York City history, we want to preserve this little gem and use it in a totally new, 21st-century, kick-ass kind of way. Our design team has developed early images of what the future Lowline could look like- an extraordinary oasis underneath one of New York City's most crowded neighborhoods.
We plan to collect sunlight on the rooftops surrounding the Lowline, before using extremely efficient mirrors to reflect that light down to the street level, and direct it underground via tubes. With this technology, we can direct so much natural light underground that we'll be able to plant many different kinds of plant species, almost like a botanical garden right in the middle of the city.
They conducted a comprehensive shadow study of Delancey Street, right above the Lowline site.
In order for the City to officially approve the project, they still have some big questions to answer. Will the solar tech work? Will plants really grow? Will it be a popular public space? To answer these questions, they are planning a long-term testing exhibition called the Lowline Lab, and they need $200,000 to build it. They have rented out a former market building, just a couple blocks from the future Lowline site, and are ready to go.
