Coleman Oval Park — Megan Beth Fullagar

COLEMAN OVAL PARK | 2012, PROJECT COMPLETED | NEW YORK, NY

The Client: Architecture For Humanity

The Challenge: The Coleman Oval Park project was created to bring awareness to a mostly unused park under the Manhattan Bridge adjacent to a newly renovated skate park in the Lower East Side. Under the leadership of Architecture for Humanity, it was the team’s goal to create a multi-sensory installation that would engage the surrounding community into thinking of different permanent solutions for the park.

The Concept: The team took inspiration from the street grids of lower Manhattan and the idea of a unique urban web. Our installation, a series of splayed geometric lines created by rope attached to existing trees on the site, intended to break up the space to help residents view the space in a different light.

During the build process, the team interviewed community members and recorded people’s suggestions and ideas of what the space could potentially be.

The photographs and commentary were later posted to the park’s tumblr account.

The project remained up for two weeks.

Besides my involvement with the design concepts and the actual build, I was responsible for maintaining a budget for the project, the initial design rendering, as well as leading team design sessions.