Sustainable Design

60-Minute Education Session

SUN-B05 - Landscapes in Flux: Design Research Lessons from Three Exemplary Waterfronts

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

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  Meghen Quinn, ASLA

  Principal
  Hargreaves Associates / Hargreaves Jones

Speaker(s)

• ZC

  Zachary Chrisco, PE

  Sasaki
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  Michael Robinson, ASLA

  Associate Principal
  SWA

Landscape architects harness research in everyday practice. But how well do performance objectives established during design stand up to social, economic, and environmental realities? Designers of three dynamic, urban waterfronts candidly share outcomes of research undertaken with the Landscape Architecture Foundation for Buffalo Bayou Park, Chicago Riverwalk, and Crissy Field.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the challenges and benefits of designing for environmental, social, and economic performance goals and objectives for built waterfront.
• Gain insight into techniques for establishing metrics during the design phase for post-construction evaluation.
• Understand the benefits and challenges involved with post-construction evaluation of landscape performance.v
• Learn different approaches to creating resilient and adaptive design strategies for waterfront sites.