Rees Landing
Rees Landing is a CoLaboratory: a collective testing ground for new forms of civic and ecological expression. Made from a flexible kit of parts, the park can be altered, edited, and re-arranged, adapting to how citizens engage with its spaces; how our public grows with it; and to how it might respond to known and unknown change in our urban and environmental context. Open surfaces can be peeled up or pushed down, using a range of permeable or impermeable materials to create a diversity of specific conditions - high/low, wet/dry, sheltered/exposed, hard/soft - while larger open areas, structures, and art walls allow for endless re-imagining and re-activating. Rees Landing offers possibilities for what could be, for what might come - a CoLaboratory for community invention, through rich and ongoing civic experimentation.
The collaborative process begins with the selection of the park concept, at which time a period of civic engagement and community input begins. To provide the community with an opportunity to shape the design, the Rees Landing team has developed the park through a series of topographic moves - pushes and pulls - laid out on a measured, striated version of the park site. This sets the stage, creating a framework for a park and developing the tools that allow for an evolving park that acknowledges the need for public input and change over time. The Park is inherently dynamic, always changing to meet the needs of the communities that inhabit it.
(Web site excerpt)
Rees Landing proposed a bold conceptual framework for the Rees Street park site that the Jury felt allowed for a great deal of flexibility in the design. This was a potential benefit in dealing with the future storm water management infrastructure. The innovative and experimental approach to programming was appreciated for its playfulness and originality.
While the scheme was innovative, the Jury felt that it was not site-specific and did not have the strength to stand beside the Gardiner. Overall, the Jury felt that the vision for the site was too abstract, without the necessary clarity to further develop the design.
(From jury report)
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