To leave is to return

The Myth of Rockaway Peninsula

Victoria Ng

John Bass    Daniel Irvine     Thena Tak    Vincent Perron

Anticipating the destruction and deterioration of built forms by climate disasters, To Leave is to Return is a mythology - an empathetic documentation of resilience in the disappearance of place. 

As the sea engulfs the Rockaway Peninsula, there are four sites of intervention that this project operates on: the Breezy Point Tip Jetty, Battery Harris, Jacob Riis Bathhouse, and Rockaway Boardwalk. The project draws relationships between imagination, existence, and place to mourn for those entangled in the consequences of climate change. This is an expression of loss that engages the reader into supposed spaces of absence. Using hand-drawing as a methodology to research, discover, and represent, stories about a community are layered on found wood pieces. 

breezy point tip jetty construction DETAILS

breezy point tip jetty construction DETAILS

rockaway boardwalk cleat design

rockaway boardwalk cleat design

battery harris and observation deck layered plan

battery harris and observation deck layered plan

1:1 breezy point tip rock, pencil 24 x 26”

1:1 breezy point tip rock, pencil 24 x 26”

rockaway boardwalk HUMAN INTERVENTIONS 14 X 58”

rockaway boardwalk HUMAN INTERVENTIONS 14 X 58”

JACOB RIIS BATHHOUSE DRAWING CONSTRUCTION 24 x 36”

JACOB RIIS BATHHOUSE DRAWING CONSTRUCTION
24 x 36”

JACOB RIIS BATHHOUSE DRAWING CONSTRUCTION 24 x 36”
JACOB RIIS BATHHOUSE TRAP DOOR SPACE

JACOB RIIS BATHHOUSE TRAP DOOR SPACE