No. 01 — 2016
Rise
Environmental education platform
- Location
- Goose Island State Park, Rockport, Texas
- Studio
- Advanced Design/Build Studio
- Recognition
- ArchDaily 2017 Best Student Design-Build Projects Worldwide
- ASLA 2017 Award for Excellence in Student Collaboration
- AIA Fort Worth 2016 Excellence in Design Merit Award
A marker for temporal change on the coastal edge of the Gulf, the rising and receding tides, the seasonal turning of the wetland prairie grasses. The inevitable sea level rise will stain itself on the walls of this platform, the wall eventually sinking into the landscape.
Field notes
The Gulf Coast Design Lab spent an entire fall pre-fabricating a 100-foot wall and platform. Fifteen days on site followed, camping, staking, setting foundations, welding and decking among the grasses.
“A wall that measures the tide, and slowly lets the landscape keep it.”
On site
11.5.2016, staking the site. 11.6, breaking ground. 11.11, leveling steel frames. 11.14, setting the wall panels. The build was a sequence of small, exact days, each one recorded in film.
