A park is a vital component of urban livelyhood: They offer a place of gathering, a place of recreation, a place of solitude. Syracuse has a multitude of parks, from big to small, some beautiful, some in need of repair, many brimming with life in the warms weather, others completely underutilized. Onondaga Creek, while rather inaccessable in itself, has a good number of parks along its banks. Well...a good number through the Valley and the South Side, but between there and the Inner Harbor, there is a great dirth through the most urban areas of the city. The diagram to the left tries to exemplify this [the orange pieces are the 2 building sites], hopefully well.
My design seeks to help this situation--the lack of parkland attached to the creek [and the future creekwalk]--by incorporating some greenspace both on the ground, and on the roof tops of the buildings. Might I reccomend tossing the frisbee around on the ground rather than the roof--the wind can carry those suckers pretty far.
More to come soon.
2 comments:
I've driven along the creek on the South Side. It's not a safe neighborhood by any stretch. What about safety?
Safety could indeed be a concern, but downtown, as a general rule, is among the safest locales in the city. If the creek were accessable to anyone, it could be engaged and used--a creek poplulated with people is substantially safer than a creek hidden in the shadows.
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