THE SPONGE PARK

Sponge Park was awarded 1st place in a design competition for the re-envisioning of the Jiaomen River Waterfront in Nansha, China. We propose a park system as infrastructure: the Urban Sponge, Community Sponge, and the Ecology Sponge. Each zone is imbued with the capabilities to respond to flooding and provide ecosystem services such as water purification and wildlife habitat creation. A continuous multi-modal circuit connects neighborhoods and surrounding corridors to plazas, recreational platforms, and viewing towers along the site.