Symbiotic Habitat

In collaboration with UC San Diego's Natural Reserve System and Natural Audobon Society, San Diego's City Council Representatives, and the Community of Pacific Beach, the challenge to identify strategies for the development of a new wetlands education and research center demands for the design of a new responsive urban landscape. The success of the project beginds with envisioning the restoration and preservation of wetlands followed by a detailed master plan and climate-resilient building design through extensive urban and landscape analysis and research. The approximately 260-acre site located on the North-East corner of Mission Bay encompasses the Kendall-Frost Marsh, the Rose Creek inlet within the proximity of the Mission Bay High School, and surrounding neighborhood which creates a truly unique potential for the development, recreation, and the expansion of an estuarine habitat. Natural assets provide an exceptional opportunity to give the community and visitors, as well as the UCSD research time, direct access to its natural environments.

PROJECT SITE

Through the years, Mission Bay has served as a natural marshland and progressed into an artificial recreational area, proving to have an ever-evolving social, economic, and ecological influence; The project site at North-East Mission Bay serves as a source of natural and human welfare. Additionally, as climate change continues to be a local and global issue, there is an extremity to nurture and restore natural preservations. Furthermore, through intervention of human-centered design, and focusing on a symbiotic approach, the sustainability, social consciousness, and economic development may act as steppingstones in tackling the concerns of decaying wetlands.

BUILDING DEVELOPMENT

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