FIELDS POINT - PROVIDENCE, RI
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Spring 2008 Forth Semester Core Design Studio
Instructors: Holly Getch Clarke, Will Martin and Sylvia Winter
landscape architecture
punta cana
baldwin hills
baldwin hills framework
fields point
downtown concord
selections
photographs
i’ve dreamed of this house
irish rubbish
hip shots
irish countryside
suburban splendor
drawings
indexing movement
lichen drawings
nude drawings
installations
wax tent
cones
wallets for stealing
thank you shoes
teabag sketches
rain catcher
publications |pdf | journal
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Fields Point south of Providence, Rhode Island is a former landfill, brownfield site and port located on Narragansett Bay. The studio program required two phases of toxic and clean fill being brought to the site, as well as, multiple basketball courts, three soccer fields, public education facilities for Save the Bay and a phytoremediation nursery. The main move was to establish a water gradient across the site allowing differing fresh and salt water vegetation to thrive and index change and movement. By cutting a fresh storm water swale that transforms into a tidal zone affected by Narragansett Bay it becomes possible to treat storm water and have a tidal zone which is more easily accessible to the public and the educational facilities for Save the Bay. I wanted to retain the expansive views of the bay that a raised soccer field provides, so the entrance road is sunken and hidden from pedestrian view making the view seamless and paramount. The same treatment of hiding the revealing is applied to the pedestrian path that cuts inbetween the soccer fields. It was graded to allow a slow reveal of the bay view.