{"id":492987,"date":"2010-03-31T10:26:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirt.asla.org\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2010-03-31T10:26:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:26:56","slug":"9-5-acre-pier-one-turns-brooklyn-bridge-park-plans-into-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/492987","title":{"rendered":"9.5-acre Pier One Turns Brooklyn Bridge Park Plans into Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPier One<\/a>, Brooklyn Bridge Park’s new 9.5-acre pier park, the largest\u00a0of a set of\u00a0six planned\u00a0for the Brooklyn waterfront,\u00a0has just opened.\u00a0Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates<\/a>, the new\u00a0park\u00a0is built on the original landfill-supported pier infrastructure,\u00a0and features sustainable design elements<\/a> that enable the site to\u00a0take care of\u00a070 percent of its own water needs. Instead of requiring significant amounts of external water to be pumped in for lawn irrigation, it’s almost self-sufficient.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the other five pier parks in development will\u00a0rely on pile-supported pier infrastructure, Pier One is based on original\u00a0landfill that was trucked in and added to the river. This solid base\u00a0make the new large land forms possible. A representative from\u00a0Michael Van Valkenburg Associates explains: “For the original construction of Pier\u00a0One, soil was dumped into the East River in order to create the pier itself \u2013 you can almost think of it as a little peninsula. For the other piers at Brooklyn Bridge Park, the ground plane is a concrete slab supported by wooden piles. Because Pier\u00a0One was on ‘land,’ so-to-speak, it could support the weight of the new large landforms.”<\/p>\n

Throughout the new pier park, there is a focus on efficiently managing water on site. Excess water is collected\u00a0from building roofs, paved areas, and lawns, and then reused.\u00a0The system is described in some detail: “As the water passes through each segment of the water garden, pollutants and sediment are removed. When the water reaches the lowest section at the southern end of Pier one, it is drained back into the underground tank and ultimately used as irrigation for the entire Pier\u00a0one landscape.\u00a0 This runoff collection system in conjunction with a decrease of impervious surfaces on the site, will represent an improvement over the previous site system which, in large storm events, diverted untreated surface runoff directly into the East River.”<\/p>\n

Pier\u00a0One features two large\u00a0lawns, a waterfront promenade, and playground. Over 500 mature trees were also planted. Later in summer 2010,\u00a0a new salt marsh at the southern edge of the pier will open.\u00a0The salt marsh will be planted with native plants set within a salvaged granite seating area. The\u00a0marsh\u00a0is designed to enable\u00a0people to experience the\u00a0tidal river close-up and\u00a0provide access for non-motorized watercraft.<\/p>\n

When completed, the\u00a0entire\u00a0pier park system will\u00a0integrate\u00a0salvaged materials, new wildlife habitat, green roofs, and energy conservation technologies. However, perhaps\u00a0the most sustainable\u00a0component\u00a0of\u00a0the new park system\u00a0is the preserved\u00a0pier\u00a0infrastructure, which has been\u00a0reused by\u00a0Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates. Brooklyn Bridge Park writes: “A major sustainability objective of Brooklyn Bridge Park is to re-use as much of the site structures as possible, to preserve the cultural legacy of the site and reduce the resources expended in its transformation. The programming layout for the park is based on the structural capacity of marine infrastructure, dictating that heavier, infrastructure-dependent program elements be located on land, while programming for the pile-supported piers is guided by what the existing structures were capable of supporting.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a> and see an interactive map\u00a0laying out\u00a0features and future phases<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also, check out the overall\u00a0park system concepts<\/a> that won a 2009 ASLA Honor Award for\u00a0Analysis & Planning, as well as a\u00a0video tour of the new Pier One\u00a0park<\/a>\u00a0by Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA.<\/p>\n

Image credit: Brooklyn Bridge Park \/ Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pier One, Brooklyn Bridge Park’s new 9.5-acre pier park, the largest\u00a0of a set of\u00a0six planned\u00a0for the Brooklyn waterfront,\u00a0has just opened.\u00a0Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the new\u00a0park\u00a0is built on the original landfill-supported pier infrastructure,\u00a0and features sustainable design elements that enable the site to\u00a0take care of\u00a070 percent of its own water needs. Instead of requiring significant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}