Nyc 2050 City Masterplan by Walmir Luz is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2016 Silver A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design Competition Category.
SilverUrban Planning· 2016
Nyc 2050 City Masterplan
by Walmir Luz
Client: Walmir Luz
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Urban Planning Category
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About Nyc 2050 City Masterplan
NYC 2050 is a city masterplan for New York City that responds to rising sea levels. The plan studies the history of the edge of Manhattan and shows how the city can adapt once again for the future. Flooding is accepted as part of daily urban life, with Venice used as a reference. The masterplan presents the changes needed for a flooded city to remain a vibrant and important cosmopolitan centre. The proposal is supported by research on climate predictions and is presented as a series of digital photo manipulations in a square format.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Nyc 2050 City Masterplan is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Nyc 2050 City Masterplan is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Nyc 2050 City Masterplan is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main idea was to reimagine how to redesign New York making water a part of the urban life. A city that embraces the flood and other environmental issues of the present time and uses them as a solution to other problems.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The focus of this masterplan was to show how New York can once again reshape its edge and readapt itself at the same time that it maintains its vitality and urban qualities of nowadays while embracing/protecting itself from the sea level rise, storm surges and future floods.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I’m currently compiling all the research that I have done so far and expanding it a little bit further so to create a book that deeply explores and discuss the possibilities introduced by this proposal.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This futuristic masterplan envisions how NYC can readapt itself to the near future sea level rise and continues to be a vibrant and important cosmopolitan city center at the same time that it addresses the natural changes to its environment and surroundings.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Photoshop file. 40in x 40in.
- Tags
- New York City, Climate Change, Flood, Sea Level Rise, Masterplan, 2050
- Production Technology
- The whole masterplan was designed and created using photo manipulations on Photoshop.
- Design Challenge
- The critical part was to carefully study the city's current masterplan in order to better design the new one that required major real state compromises. The new design had to accommodate the necessary changes, introduce a new urban life and reimagine a new New York that is ready to embrace the future.
- Research
- The masterplan was conceptualized by studying the history of Manhattan's edge, the climate crisis predictions by the United States Landfalling Hurricane Probability Project, and several climate studies produced by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
- Inspiration
- As one looks throughout the history of Manhattan's edge, one may realize how it has changed throughout the years in order to better adapt the city to the needs of the time. This masterplan addresses the necessary changes to make NYC a resilient city as it embraces the current climate crisis and it readapts itself once again for the future. By taking Venice as inspiration and letting the flood be part of the city life, a new New York is brought to life.
- Project Duration
- August - December 2015. Ithaca, NY.
Walmir Luz, Thesis, Bachelor of Architecture, Cornell University. - Operation Flow
- This masterplan can be used to identify the changes that NYC will have to implement in order to accommodate the needs of a flooded city.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Walmir Luz, NYC 2050, 2015.
Image #2: Walmir Luz, NYC 2050, 2015.
Image #3: Walmir Luz, NYC 2050, 2015.
Image #4: Walmir Luz, NYC 2050, 2015.
Image #5: Walmir Luz, NYC 2050, 2015.
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