Resiliency is becoming increasingly important along coastal cities, rising temperatures aggravate sea level rise, the occurence and impact of extreme weather events. Landscape architects are responding with parks which adapt to the climactic and geographic changes.
Hunter’s Point South was phased in 2 pieces and was built between 1996 and 2002. The large scale waterfront plan is designed to be wet, to survive current, velocity and energy. There are multiple strategies the designers used to create a shoreline park which aims to respond to the shoreline. The park used multiple adaptation strategies, each having their own set of costs and benefits.
