Delaware Waterfront, Philadelphia, PA
Academic
Spring 2023
Since European settlement, the Fishtown section of the Delaware River served a mainly industrial function. This project proposes to redevelop the site into a city park – reconnecting adjacent neighborhoods with the waterfront. The site’s long-standing industries – represented in the project through four characteristic materials – inform the type, location and form of the park’s programming. The four industries are metal casting, shipbuilding, construction material distribution, and glassworks. The four representative materials are iron, trees, concrete, and sand. In turn, these materials manifest on the site as an urban square, pine-oak forest, pocket scapes, and dunes.
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