Miami Beach issued a simple request: to re-design a park. Specifically, the Request for Qualifications stated that the work products for the North Beach Oceanside Park would include conceptual drawing(s), surveying, geotechnical, design development, estimate(s) of probable construction cost, construction documents, permitting, bidding\/award, and construction administration services. Embedded within the expectations of the City was a critical design component \u2013 the final design must define a new identity for the North Beach community by tapping into and revealing established values and qualities present in the site.<\/p>\n
The resultant design took the densely-vegetated, 30-acre park and conceived it as a series of carefully orchestrated thresholds where park users will never feel secluded, inactive or unengaged. The design resulted in a necklace of \u2018pods\u2019 that operate as a spine to the project and serve to protect habitat and increase the City\u2019s management of these natural resources.<\/p>\n
The walkways are scaled so that they foster continuous activities in potentially endless configurable ways and augments the opportunities for resiliency design by strengthening the dune, utilizing passive green infrastructure and LID stormwater management strategies. The project also incorporated a rebranding of the City\u2019s established beachfront with an on-grade beachwalk destined to be a terminus to the City\u2019s overall transportation infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The product developed for the park is one that will provide an immediate transformative quality for the North Beach Community, it will enhance cultural celebration, and it embodies the City\u2019s values of good, environmental design and access to great public spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1369,"template":"","project_city":[12],"project_states":[17],"project_services":[43],"class_list":["post-1368","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n