Thesis 2017 (Urban Plaza)
Graduate Work
Wilmington, N.C.
Spring 2017 (Individual Work)

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This plaza calibrates the design of a public space with an environment in flux and aims to create a landscape that changes the perception of nuisance flooding. The system itself pulls the flood water from underneath it to pool within the tiles, and depending on the amount of water, it spreads to define certain paths and programming. It uses play as a means of engagement in order to highlight this temporary context.
Rather than solving a problem, it focuses on human scaled affects will shift the conversation from catastrophic damages and large-scale interventions into an everyday management of water, and a focus on tactile, tangible work.
Faced with the scenario of living with water, coastal inhabitants have shown an adaptive response. The project is tapping into this Yellow Boot Urbanism, to accentuate and celebrate the absurdity of this scenario. It removes the infrastructure from the realm of the invisible, and creates active participation to re-humanize infrastructure and connect us back to the spaces that we inhabit.