Sculpted landforms harbor vibrations like a seasheell against your ear. The wind whistles through the trees and echos off the park’s surfaces. Certain sounds are enhanced, others muted. Soundwaves, like the waves of the ocean, flow over the design, collecting in small eddies or escaping into the atmosphere, never to return. Benches are situated in places where a vibration is isolated to create an aural experiences. The park creates bustling urban environments where spontaneous interactions can happen from an unintended eavesdrop. It also provides a quiet place of pastoral solitude where the sounds of the city seem far away amidst the folded landscape.

Parametrically controlling the site topography, the project explores the influence of hydrology on ecological performance and the organization of built form on the site. This project took these hydrological investigations and recast them as explorations into the dynamics of sound in a semi-urban environment. Sonic booms from landing airplanes and the clamoring of the nearby container terminal gave inspiration to a project in which sound can be made liquid, sculpted, shaped and designed for particular sonic experiences in a landscape.