The Dryline (BIG U) addresses New York City’s vulnerability to coastal flooding with a protective ribbon in Southern Manhattan. The 12 km-long infrastructural barrier incorporates public space with the high-water barrier doubling as parks, seating, bicycle shelters or skateboard ramps. Embankments add green areas and spaces beneath elevated roadways are built out with pavilions for public use. In an emergency, the shutters close forming a floodwater barrier.
By
Daniel Kidd, Kai-Uwe Bergmann
, Jeremy Siegel, Thomas Christoffersen, - BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group (New York), New York, NY, USAStephen Whitehouse, Melon Wedick, Laura Starr, Andrea Parker, - Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, New York, NY, USADaniel Payne, - AEA Consulting, Beacon, NY, USAChristina Kaunzinger, - Green Shield Ecology, Bridgewater, NJ, USAByron Stigge, - Level Agency for Infrastructure, New York, NY, USAMatthijs Bouw, - One Architecture, Amsterdam, NetherlandsPrem Krishnamurthy, - Project Projects, New York, NY, USAIvo de Jeu, Bjarke Ingels
, - BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, Copenhagen, DenmarkJames Lima, - James Lima Planning + Development, New York, NY, USAEdgar J. Westerhof, - ARCADIS, USASteven Baumgartner - Buro Happold Engineering, New York City, USA
Ideas:
Urban Requalification, Economic & Social Empowerment
The Dryline (BIG U) addresses New York City’s vulnerability to coastal flooding with a protective ribbon in Southern Manhattan. The 12 km-long infrastructural barrier incorporates public space with the high-water barrier doubling as parks, seating, bicycle shelters or skateboard ramps.
Embankments add green areas and spaces beneath elevated roadways are built out with pavilions for public use. In an emergency, the shutters close forming a floodwater barrier.