Two paradoXcity studio projects receive international ASLA Awards
The Venice studio project Terra Nova of Julia Price, Erin Root and Kurt Marsh was awarded in the collaboration category.
Venice symbolizes the strange beauty that is possible when human habitation adapts itself to extreme environmental surroundings. Sea level rise and climate change place the Venetian lagoon at a critical juncture in its existence and necessitate new techniques of adaptation. Terra Nova proposes a new, more flexible set of methods to build ground, improve biodiversity, and permit human access to this critical process in order to allow this very unique city and ecosystem to survive.
The Baltimore studio project Waterworks of Maggie Hansen and Suzanne Mathew, was awarded in the General Design category.
Baltimore Water Works utilizes the unique resilience of river delta ecosystems to create a hybridized landscape infrastructure that unites ecological health with urban vitality. This adaptive framework, designed for Baltimore's Jones Falls River corridor, employs the functional river ecology to reinvigorate abandoned and economically depressed areas within the city's core, and to create a model for stability that allows urban density to both contract and expand.
Published: February 5, 2012