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
rockaway boardwalk cleat design
battery harris and observation deck layered plan
1:1 breezy point tip rock, pencil 24 x 26”
rockaway boardwalk HUMAN INTERVENTIONS 14 X 58”
JACOB RIIS BATHHOUSE DRAWING CONSTRUCTION
24 x 36”
JACOB RIIS BATHHOUSE TRAP DOOR SPACE
