New York Horizon, which won first prize in an architectural competition, plans to revamp Manhattan’s green lung.
Modify a mythical park. The designer duo Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu received last week the first prize of the Skyscraper Competition 2016, relating to the most futuristic projects and organized by the architecture and design magazine eVolo. Their project entitled New York Horizon, relating to the change of Central Park, to New York, won over the jury, among the 489 selected.
“Our project was designed to contrast with the buildings of the city and to allow New Yorkers to enjoy the environment of this place by escaping from the bustling city life”, state the two artists, graduates from Rhode Island. School of Design in the United States. They advocate a more dynamic landscape, such as hills for example, which would be more conducive to hiking, climbing and other outdoor activities. A facade would surround the interior of the park and promote a kind of nature of infinity in the heart of a concrete jungle.
The number of skyscrapers is constantly evolving around this area of the city, most of whose homes and offices, due to their high costs, are only accessible to a certain category of people, who can benefit from the breathtaking view of this green lung daily.
–The two architects therefore considered digging this 341 hectare space down to the rock, at a depth of thirty meters, and building around 300 meters of mirrored wall all around to have an infinite effect.
The ambition of New York Horizon is to reverse the traditional relationship between landscape and architecture. Instead of building a flat landscape that surrounds the architecture, the two Americans wanted to highlight “true nature” and bring it back to its central place.
However, they are aware that this project will probably not see the light of day, but hope that it will make people think about other future concepts of the city.
After having known periods during which the park was not exploited to the maximum, it has today become a place where some like to cycle there, walk around the reservoir, while others have lunch on the waterfront. ‘grass or discover the paths sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. He is considered the leader in the renaissance of urban parks.
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