Director Adam E. Anderson discusses the design of Living Edge at the grand opening on July 11.
We are thrilled to announce the official opening of Living Edge, the winning project of “Imagine Us Here”, a design challenge presented by Down City Design’s CityWorks Fellows in Spring 2019. Local residents, volunteers who helped plant trees, and city officials all gathered on July 11 at the site’s location on S. Water St. (just North of the new pedestrian bridge) to celebrate the official opening of the project.
You can learn more about the project on our site here.
Conceptual Plan of Winning Proposal
Design Under Sky’s proposal “The Living Edge” was selected from three finalists as the winning proposal for Downcity Design’s CityWork’s competition “Imagine Us Here” which sought to build a resilient waterfront that with strong community engagement.
We look forward to collaborating with Downcity Design to further cultivate Providence’s Urban Waterfront.
Adam was one of two featured speakers at DesignXRI's August Clambake, hosted at The Avenue Project in Providence, RI.
He presented healing landscape projects for Yale University, XiangYa 5th Hospital and local projects 10,000 SUNS, The Shack, and a new unsolicited riverfront proposal called the "Providence Gateway Park". Artist and fabricator Monica Shinn was the other presenter.
“THE SHACK” is a new seafood shack/biergarten in the heart of former I-195 land, and adjacent to the Wexford Innovation Center under construction. A small transportable "shack" will be set in a garden of three distinct zones, diminishing in constructed materiality and recalling the coastal context of the project .
The project was designed in close collaboration with the Dune Brothers (the restaurant operators) Stay Silent PVD (Event Planners), JP Murton (Developing Partner), Fuss and O'neil Engineers, and the I-195 District Commission. More about the project here.
RGB Color-changing lights illuminate the blue fence.
