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A project done with Landscape Architecture and architecture students to rehabilitate a district in Panama City, Panama for an organization run by UNESCO and the Panamanian government.
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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
