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With a Trace - ARCH 480
Towards environmental stewardship and reciprocity along Portland's post-industrial waterfront.
Portland's waterfront is virtually uninhabitable due to toxicity, its riparian landscape grossly underutilized due to contemporary industry's diminishing reliance on waterfront property. I used GIS data to identify areas of development opportunity along Portland's existing "green loop," pulling in underserved residential communities.
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The ensuing urban plan bridged existing wetlands with the industrial waterfront in a recreational microloop, establishing a natural bypass for salmon and other displaced species.
The site, formerly owned by an oil storage and PCP production enterprise, presented itself as a foil for redefining our urban relationship with water.
I used the former site's industrial imprints to inform site navigation and the nature of new programmatic elements.
The imprints informed a binary circulation avenue that pulled inhabitants towards the waterfront, the tank footprints figuring in as habitable platforms among a restored low riparian habitat.
The resulting remediation garden integrates the site's industrial history with a future in which regeneration and reciprocity defines our methods of post industrial inhabitation.
The garden pulls in and remediates polluted river water. The purified water is used for small scale cultivation that feeds into multiple farm
to table enterprises on-site.
Different levels of toxicity across the site require different phytoremediation methods.
Entry.
River walkway.
Remediation basin.
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