Our visit to the Center of Architecture was a great synopsis of our guest professors’ brief lecture of beauty of landscape architecture and its sustainable methods to our environment. The Edgeucation Pavillion Design competition of a small, 15 acre, park between 163rd street-201st street is a great practice of the principles of SITES as their project and sole goal is to restore once a dumping ground of hazardous material into a stunning and innovatively designed public park that offers variety of natural experiences to the visitors.
The park has many different resources, which many park do not hold to the capacity to offer to the public, such as marshes, boats storage, classrooms, bird watching zones, observatory docks, and bike roads. This is an innovative way of stepping towards the idea of sustained environment for our future generations. This project, in my personal perspective, is potentially a greater approach to sustainable and innovative restoration than Highway Park as latter turned a destructible high-lines to a park, whereas the former is turning already chemically destroyed ground into beauty and nature.
