|
3
ACRES ON THE LAKE : DuSable Park Proposal Project
Speed, Territory,
Communication and Event Structure
On the road, in the park, through the city
Design by
HYO-JIN,KANG and YOU-CHANG, JEON
3 ACRES ON
THE LAKE : DuSable Park Proposal Projects
When I am bored with typical parks, I go to the DuSable Park to lie down
in my own private meadow:
1st level : Natural Promenade
When I am
tired of city life, I want to go near the water's edge, DuSable Park:
2nd level : Static Promenade
When I need
some wild playground to rumble and tumble, I go to the DuSable Park:
3rd level : Dynamic Promenade
When I want
to experience unexpected happenings, I go to the park for fun:
combined level
CONCEPT DESCRIPTION
SITE
DuSable Park
is now on the isolated fringe of Lake Shore Drive, an existing infrastructure
within the city. This space has much potential in terms of being a "condensed
edge with energies," a "legendary spot," and an "unused
meadow of the linear landscape carpet in Chicago."
Contemporary
parks have many weaknesses in a sense of the standardized concept, program,
and enclosed community. This congestion will be more compacted even to
some distortion degree. If we use the park superficially, on the ground
level, as what it is, we cannot accommodate our neighbors who are looking
for a place within the city to relieve their stress. Only trees and flowers
cannot give us some real rest.
With these reasons, I propose that DuSable Park should become an eventful
place combined with three different types of promenades: natural, static,
and dynamic. Sometimes these three promenades at different levels happen
to pass through one another or become isolated or entangled with one another.
This means that I can choose an area of the park according to my inclination
and desire – to be alone or get together. And, if I head for
some unexpected events, I can approach my neighbors, activities, and even
my own unconsciousness.
For the first level, I propose maintaining the original meadow with a
natural water edge (No Man's Land). But we should try to make the soil
fertile more and more Someone might be longing for private time to see
the sky with his back on the meadow, alone.
For the second level, I suggest the introduction of the city axis toward
Lake Michigan very statically. This is more like the horizontal threshold
between the city and the waterfront. This threshold can be characterized
by noise, views, and accessibility.
For the third level, I propose to make random promenades for a variety
of dynamic activities appearing like tangled yarn of the vast linear green
carpet similar to other lakefront parks. This yarn penetrates the original
meadow and the lower-level static promenade yielding some event nod combined
according to these three level elements.
PROGRAM
1. Natural
level
a-1. Take
a break from the condo construction a-2. Siesta (nap) in the shade under
Lake Shore Drive
a-3. Meditate on the top of the meadow
a-4. Watch a cloud in the sky
a-5. Hear the sound from Ogden Slip
a-6. Think about "what's wrong with me"
a-7. Aromatherapy with Queen Anne's Lace
a-8. Dreaming the wealth in Chicago a-9. Memorizing for the tomorrow's
test
1. Static
level
b-1. Walk
slowly with an old dog
b-2. Walk through Exhibition Forests b-3. Read in the waterfront library
b-4. Massage from a Chinese masseuse
b-5. Suntan with olive oil
b-6. Breathe deeply all oxygen from the Forests b-7. Watch "shewrek"
through the outside screen
2. Dynamic
level
c-1. Run
and Burn belly-fat crazily
c-2. Play basketball
c-3. Show off skateboarding acrobatics
c-4. Exercise to turn around in bicycle c-5. Climb the bridge cliff
c-6. Baby-sit a wild kid
c-7. Jog on the tangled track
c-8. Dance with a stranger
c-9. Wander watching the events
Prologue
If park is
built according to typical format, people have no choice but to get used
to our boring park or just miss "the little house on the prairie".
These different characteristic programs yield so various and different
event combinations in the form of promenade. In DuSable Park, we can see
vertically one blue-collared worker is lying down under the tall tree
(natural level), one stessed-out teenager is doing aroma therapy with
leaves of the trees (static level) and some fat lady is running the track
crazily. Come to DuSable Park and let you lie down your own meadow or
experience bunch of fresh events!
Jeon You-Chang
Mitchell/Giurgola Architects LLP
archjeon@hotmail.com
Kang Hyo-Jin
|