FO HIGH LINE S1 04 Aerial Barrett Doherty
An aerial precedent for adaptive reuse of industrial infrastructure into an elevated linear park, demonstrating integrated concrete paving and naturalistic plantings.
- What we like about this project
- Concrete planks peel up to form integrated chaise lounge seating amongst the planting.
Materials
- precast-concrete
- steel
- native-planting
- wood
Visual identifiers
- linear-elevated-park
- concrete-plank-paving
- naturalistic-planting
- aerial-perspective
Style tags
- landscape-urbanism
- contemporary
- infrastructure-as-landscape
Visual tags
- urban-renewal
- adaptive-reuse
- public-realm
- elevated-park
- infrastructure
- linear-park
- Geometry
- Linear elevated right-of-way cuts diagonally across the urban grid, featuring interlocking concrete plank seating and planting beds.
- Structural guess
- Historic elevated steel railway viaduct structure carrying new concrete deck construction.
- Spatial scale
- Linear elevated park roughly the width of a standard street corridor, accommodating pedestrian foot traffic.
- Lighting
- Late afternoon or overcast natural daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting linear edge lighting fixtures.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and active pedestrian environment floating above a dense industrial urban fabric.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban industrial and commercial street grid surrounding an elevated former railway structure.
- Spatial experience
- An elevated linear pedestrian promenade offering views down into urban streets while enclosed by wild perennial planting.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal linear perspective emphasizing the long continuous path broken by rhythmic changes in plank widths and seating integrations.
- Style reading
- Contemporary landscape urbanism
- Program
- Elevated public park / pedestrian walkway
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- precast-concrete, steel, native-planting, wood
- Visual identifiers
- linear-elevated-park, concrete-plank-paving, naturalistic-planting, aerial-perspective
- Style tags
- landscape-urbanism, contemporary, infrastructure-as-landscape
- Visual tags
- urban-renewal, adaptive-reuse, public-realm, elevated-park, infrastructure, linear-park
- Geometry
- Linear elevated right-of-way cuts diagonally across the urban grid, featuring interlocking concrete plank seating and planting beds.
- Structural guess
- Historic elevated steel railway viaduct structure carrying new concrete deck construction.
- Spatial scale
- Linear elevated park roughly the width of a standard street corridor, accommodating pedestrian foot traffic.
- Lighting
- Late afternoon or overcast natural daylight casting soft shadows and highlighting linear edge lighting fixtures.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and active pedestrian environment floating above a dense industrial urban fabric.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban industrial and commercial street grid surrounding an elevated former railway structure.
- Spatial experience
- An elevated linear pedestrian promenade offering views down into urban streets while enclosed by wild perennial planting.
- Composition rhythm
- Diagonal linear perspective emphasizing the long continuous path broken by rhythmic changes in plank widths and seating integrations.
- Style reading
- Contemporary landscape urbanism
- Program
- Elevated public park / pedestrian walkway
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape