Vision Statement: To re-establish the ecology of Point Pleasant Park through environmentally conscious practices, fostering relationships between the Halifax community and its green spaces.

re- Again: Anew... From devastation, can come opportunity. Event marks change as a fragile urban ecosystem struggles to regenerate within the ever-evolving life-cycles of nature and its greater environment. In September of 2003, Hurricane Juan struck Halifax's Point Pleasant Park destroying more than 75,000 trees, approximately 70% of its forest. This single event drastically changed not only a park, its flora and fauna, and the various dynamics of its complex ecosystem, but also the entire urban fabric which surrounds it. Point Pleasant Park had been considered an urban oasis, an area of respite and repose, a place rich with history. Hurricane Juan disrupted the park and the many natural and introduced relationships between its constituent parts, but also the beloved relationship between the park as a place of “nature” and the people of Halifax who cherish it. The design challenge is not only how to regenerate, restore, and renew Point Pleasant Park as a ecosystem, a park, and a place, but also how re-establish, again: anew, the vital link between the Halifax community and its green spaces.

The proposed design solution responds to the call of the Halifax community to replenish a devastated ecosystem through the implementation of a series of phased interventions. These interventions are based around ecological sustainability, the notions of reading and re-reading the Park landscape as an evolving place and ecosystem, the re-establishment of the visceral and intangible relationships between the Halifax community and Point Pleasant, as well the ideas of preservation, stewardship, and exchange. The devastation of Hurricane Juan brought to the forefront the undeniable importance of green public space to the people of Halifax. Now is the opportunity to again: anew, re-green not only Point Pleasant Park, but also the City of Halifax and its community. (Joshua Price)

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