Shoreline

Climatorium: Environmental Activism &
Development

2022

Advisor: Christopher Cornecelli

Collaborator: Liam Caldwell

Located at the edge of the South Street Seaport in New York. The site represents an endless growth of density, culture, and physical transformation yet at the same time represents a city vulnerable to global climate change. It has been the stage of some recent global climate events, mass flooding's and superstorms. Similar to the coastal erosion defense infrastructure - groynes, Shoreline a new civic institution, aims to represent a defense against climate change and become the lightship of change.

Moreso, Shoreline aims to change the perceived lack of awareness towards global warming through a self-regenerative loop of art, food, civic participation, technology and ecology. While providing ways to lower the immense carbon footprint through sustainable energy, low-carbon materials, and passive building strategies to lower our impact on the earth.

As every square inch of the planet has been impacted by human agency, mankind has lost physical connection to the earth. Shoreline translates human agency through the process of un-making, by recreating the shoreline of 1609. Using it define the structure, build contiguity to landscapes, opportunities to learn and advance in ways to reduce carbon emissions.

COMING SOON..