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Central Park
New York City
The landscape of central park is an artificial environment that has aggregated species of plants and animals from around the world to create an aestheticized experience of nature within the heart of the city. Over much time and many iterations the park has been designed to contain many diverse zones each with their own distinct identities. These areas attempt to create curated replicas of various natural ecologies. With such a highly manufactured amount of biodiversity that has been stratified into adjacent regions yet completely contained by the manhattan city grid, central park is an ideal testing bed to deploy free range biofabrication.
This thesis proposes to naturally modify the unnatural ecology of central park through a series of passive interventions sited in various locations. Each of these seed columns will be designed with an awareness of the site specific topography, geology, and ecology of different zones within the park. They are intended to add to the biodiversity and environmental health of specific regions of the park.
The landscape of central park is an artificial environment that has aggregated species of plants and animals from around the world to create an aestheticized experience of nature within the heart of the city. Over much time and many iterations the park has been designed to contain many diverse zones each with their own distinct identities. These areas attempt to create curated replicas of various natural ecologies. With such a highly manufactured amount of biodiversity that has been stratified into adjacent regions yet completely contained by the manhattan city grid, central park is an ideal testing bed to deploy free range biofabrication.
This thesis proposes to naturally modify the unnatural ecology of central park through a series of passive interventions sited in various locations. Each of these seed columns will be designed with an awareness of the site specific topography, geology, and ecology of different zones within the park. They are intended to add to the biodiversity and environmental health of specific regions of the park.