Many Ways to Treat the Box
In response to inundation from sea level rise and flash flooding in Secaucus, this proposal for many ways to treat the box aims to densify higher ground with essential infrastructure allowing a living shoreline in the lower lying land. Knowing that the inundation zone will need to be decommissioned, it aims to re-use as much of the construction materials as possible to create habitats for human and non human species. This functions in the form of structure for new neighborhood block typologies defined by existing warehouse footprints and as a landscaping tool to create a topography of ruins and rubble.
Understanding the site as a transect, it acts as a prototype to be implemented moving up the area as time passes. The site is currently a 750 acre distribution park in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. According to existing flooding predictions, 81% of the land is at risk of inundation from flooding and sea level rise, and in anticipation of this there this proposal relies upon the implementation of a state buyout and decommissioning plan to make room for the river with rolling easements.
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Warehouses + landfills over timeSite plan 2025 + 2125Transect axonometricTriptych planAxonometric calloutsSection
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