*와일드 마일드 [ Skidmore, Owings & Merrill + Urban Rivers ] Wild Mile
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill + Urban Rivers-Wild Mile
와일드 마일은 시카고 강에 서식지, 교육, 레크리에이션을 위한 새로운 환경을 조성합니다. 17에이커 규모의 수상 생태공원으로 설계된 이 프로젝트는 이웃 간의 연결성을 강화하고, 깨끗한 물을 생성하며, 보다 활기찬 생태계를 지원하는 데 도움이 되는 새로운 도시 생태에 대한 커뮤니티 주도의 비전을 발전시킵니다.
The Wild Mile will create a new environment for habitat, education, and recreation on the Chicago River. Designed as a 17-acre floating eco-park, it advances a community led vision of renewed urban ecology that helps strengthen neighborhood connectivity, generate cleaner water, and support more vibrant ecosystems.
The project is located along the east side of Goose Island, on the North Branch Canal and Turning Basin. This area has been envisioned as a type of eco park since the creation of the 2003 Chicago Central Area Plan. In 2017, Urban Rivers and SOM installed a 1,500-square-foot floating garden as a first step toward making the Wild Mile vision a reality. Since then, the project has evolved into a collaboration with the City of Chicago, O-H Community Partners, Near North Unity Program, Omni Ecosystems, Tetra Tech, d’Escoto, and local community members providing input central to its goals, objectives, and priorities.
Making the most of its proximity to more than 40 schools and academic institutions, the Wild Mile incorporates rich educational and community programming. These include a volunteer-led and technology driven initiative, River Rangers, which recruits “citizen scientists” to document and provide regular reports on reintroduced plants and wildlife.
When completed, the Wild Mile will transform the formerly industrialized, human made branch of the Chicago River along Goose Island into an eco-park that serves people, wildlife, and the environment. With a series of floating gardens, forests with public walkways, kayak docks, and other amenities, the project is designed to restore the river as a public trust.
from archdaily