VANALEN COMPETITION

Master Plan

Current Challenge: Unify the park’s experience and geography.

  • Unified Experience
    • Develop a language of light
      • Each division of the park will have its own color:
        • Staten Island:           Yellow
        • Sandy Hook:             Blue
        • Jamaica Bay:            Red
          • Fort Bennett Field:   Burgundy
      • Repeating the use of light to highlight assets of the park will unite the visitors’ experience of the park as a whole. 
        • Opportunities:
          • Recreational
          • Ecological
          • Historic
  • Unified Geography
    • Create four marinas to provide visitors with the ability to use alternative transportation:
      • Public Transportation
        • Boats to ferry people from marina to 100marina on the hours
      • Private Transportation: Rent
        • Boats
        • Personal Water Craft
        • Bicycles
    • New methods of transportation allow people to traverse the entire park.
    • New marine transportation will not only link the park, but it pays homage to the maritime history of the region.

Fort Bennett Field

  • Identify FBF as its own entity
    • Unique color
      • Burgundy light
      • Redness shows that it is part of Jamaica Bay unique part of the park.
  • The center of the redesign
    • New multi-functional iconic building that houses:
      • Park administration
      • Public green house / auditorium 
        • Overlooks samples of every environment in the park 
        • Presentations of the natural elements of the park will be given to the public with New York City as the back drop
        • Vegetation inside the green house and in the immediate area around it can be lit to enforce the speaker’s presentation
      • Lookout points service:
        • Bird Watchers
        • Antique Air Show audiences
      • Small meeting rooms:
        • Model Hobbyists
        • Community Gardeners
        • Club Sportsmen
      • Shower Rooms:
        • Windsurfers
      • Bicycle maintenance space
      • Marina for FBF
    • Support Green Houses
      • Supply the main green house with plants
      • Provide the entire park with saplings
        • Counteract the negative impacts of this urban environment.   
    • Large concrete water retention ponds
      • Help contain storm water overflow
        • Constantly filled with water and emptied when storms overflow into the bay. 
        • Plants attached to a lattice will help filter the water before it is released into the bay.