Parks of Time.

Embracing Impermanence.

Advisors: Hernan Diaz Alonso with Rachel McCall

The way parks exist in our environment becomes a critical problem to solve. The typology of the central park is combined with the collective fragmentation in a landscape of rooftop water-tanks in Manhattan. Each park has a designed sequence of transformations that is brought to life by different systems influencing each other - like the bugs changing the state of the terrain, which then influences the melting of the sculpture which is then synchronized with the time of day. Introducing the rooftop landscape typology to this then creates a larger framework of systems interacting with each other on top of a city. One can choose to manipulate each park’s state whenever one interacts with it. One can pause, play, and rewind to sustain every fleeting moment. When no one is interacting with the system, it goes back to the sequence that’s synchronized to the time of day.