Urban Design for El Chorrillo

9°N

Gatun Locks

Pedro Miguel Locks

Miraflores Locks

Panama City

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-’Just Cause’ invasion damage

-’Just Cause’ invasion damage

-’Just Cause’ invasion damage

urban design plan for el chorrillo

-integrate el chorrillo into city roads and urban programs

-activate waterfront with civic space event spaces

-restore native ecosystems mangrove forest rehabilitation

-clean polluted water water refineries, pods and islands

-create identity memorial, waterfront and islands

-improve tidal function islands

transforming with water and ground urban design in el chorrillo - design goals

New WaterfrontMangrove PodsEvent Spaces

Memorial Lights

Mangrove Islands

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existing - abandoned waterfront proposed - incremental forms

existing - broken street grid proposed - street grid connected to ocean

amador peninsula collects sediments and pollution; long tidal ebbs and flows deposit pollution in bay in front of el chorrillo, unable to clean out sediments and take them out to sea pollution - ocean currents

development

vegetated area

streams take pollutants and sediment into the ocean

currents c a r r y sediment westward

Museum of Biodiversity

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Smithsonian TropicalResearch Institute

upland low marshhigh marsh

average tide

low tide

high tidemonthly high tide

white mangrove black mangrove red mangrove

mangrove

mangrove

mixing

mixing

saltwater moves in as tide rises

freshwater moves out as tide recedes

existing bathymetry

proposed bathymetry

Islands improve water flow to inlet by creating underwater ‘swales’

existing tides

proposed tides

Islands improve water flow to inlet by creating underwater ‘swales’

image:kim true with ken mccown

image:kim true with ken mccown

image:kim true with ken mccown

image:kim true with ken mccown

Invasion Memorial

image:henry fleischmann with ken mccown

image:henry fleischmann with ken mccown

image:ana tabuena with ken mccown

image:mario benito

-ken mccown, samantha sears, kim true, henry fleischmann, ana tabuena, debbie enos, isby swick, yarnie chen, kim wehinger

transforming with water and ground el chorrillo, panama - design team