PRECEDENTS
Existing projects that are relevant to our work—through their subject matter, spatial qualities, or programmatic potential—are analyzed below. Some are built works and others are speculative, but not all are exemplary; we use the precedent study process to both be inspired and to critique. Projects fall into five categories: rehabilitation, infrastructure, energy, urbanism, and remediation.
REHABILITATION
Appalachian Trail Benton MacKaye, 1921-2014
Rosecrance Healing Garden Hoichi Kurisu, 2004
Dubai Healthcare City Cracknell, 2002
Kush Valley Miles Deife, Connor Deife, Joshua Chase, 2015
Sunspire Health Heartland Sunspire Health, 2016
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INFRASTRUCTURE
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Tennessee Valley Authority United States Federal Government, 1933
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Various designers, 2008
Dendritic Zoning ATLAS Lab, 2013
Umbral de las Americas Elizabeth Añaños, Adriana Chavez, Daniel Daou, Oscar Malaspina Quevedo, Gabriel Morales, Nicolas Rivard, Einat Rosenkrantz, 2014
Girard Avenue Interchange AECOM, 2017-
Border Wall Prototypes Various designers, 2017-
ENERGY
Prosper-Haniel Mine Andre Niemann and Ulrich Schreiber, 2017-
Huainan Floating Solar Farm Sunrow Power + JA Solar Company, 2017
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URBANISM
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Broadacre City Frank Lloyd Wright, 1932
Plug-In City Archigram, 1964
Arcosanti Paolo Soleri, 1970
Autonomous City Drew Adams, Daniel Ibañez, Fadi Masoud, 2011
Nicollet Mall Field Operations, 2016-
US-Mexico Checkpoints Various designers
REMEDIATION
Renaturation of the River Aire Atelier Descombes + Rampini, 2002-
Cheonggycheon Stream Restoration Project SeoAhn Total Landscape, 2005
Chattanooga Renaissance Park Hargreaves Associates, 2006
Shandong Ecological Afforestation Project Shandong Provincial Government + The World Bank, 2010-2016
Quarry Garden THUPDI and Tsinghua University, 2010
