
Sasaki Associates, with RDG Planning & Design and Applied Ecological Services (AES), were recently announced as the winning team of the Water Works Parkitecture Competition. The international design competition entailed the creation of a conceptual plan for Water Works Park to form dynamic relationships between the river, the watershed, and the community. Education and the connection between the river and the community were highly stressed in Sasaki’s winning proposal. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Water, wild + wonder imagines a dynamic public park that respects and discovers the power of water in the Des Moines region. We imagine Water Works Park as a place of adventure and water experience that serves as entrée to a restored, easily accessible wilderness and beyond – to a river system, a watershed, and a new understanding of the role of everybody in the region’s water story. The Park creates a re-imagined public space on the Raccoon River, where the dynamic floodplain, the engineered water systems, ecology and active recreation come together.
