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and with the buildings around it. It's one piece of a larger dialogue.
It's not enough to have a green roof that just covers the building in
broccoli! Other elements of that dialogue include programmatic
adjacency -- what you put next to what, what you locate next to a
terrace, and how you give it a facade that is truly operable. Good
decisions can't be made on the basis of one building alone.
LAM: Your work at 11th Street Bridge has been compared to both the
Highline in New York and Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water
masterpiece. What do you say to that?
JL: Wright created an intense dialogue between building and
wilderness at Falling Water. I can only hope that we have that level
of complexity with the bridge. We do have a similar layering and
engagement with nature, I hope.
The Highline in New York City is incredibly successful in terms
of its popularity, and is a strikingly beautiful place that echoes back
to the almost otherworldly nature that grew along that rail line.
It's a real standard to live up to. We're in a very different situation,
although we're both reusing infrastructure.
We're trying to make something a little wider, less like a linear
boulevard and more like a park, where you have events along the
way: places to sit, places to have a wedding, or a performance.
The Highline is a real tourist attraction, but we also want the 11th
Street Bridge to be a place
where locals want to hang out -
a place that is even primarily for
locals, who own the park in that
sense. The bridge is a bridge
between two very different
communities who don't often
cross the river - one largely low
income, and African American.
So trying to build a bridge gives
the design a certain mission.
The form of the bridge, and
the X it forms in elevation, also
creates a layering - of moments
where you can see and be seen,
moments where you can look
down into the river and back
into the city.
LAM: What are your thoughts
about living architecture?
JL: We design all our projects
so they can be used over time in
many different ways, including
ways we didn't design for. We
try to build so the building can
be reconfigured. That's one way
to make living architecture - the
ultimate form of sustainability.
But we also need to design and
make buildings that can breathe,
that have a good environmental
impact and minimize carbon
emissions. Being part of that
revolution is also part of living
architecture.
Wayne Roberts is an author,
journalist and consultant.
His recent works include The No
Nonsense Guide to World Food and
Food for City Building.
Jason Long and Hallie Boyce,
OLIN will be presenting at CitiesAlive in Washington DC.
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