The winner of the RE:Vision Dallas competition has been named. The North Carolina firm Little has won with their Entangled Bank design.
From the UrbanRevision.Org website:
Something incredible is about to happen in downtown Dallas. Soon, a single block will be transformed into a place that creates economies, supports community, facilitates relationships and generates resources. The winners of Re:Vision Dallas have created plans that challenged us, engaged us, and inspired us. And their ideas, from local materials and vegetated screens to integrated greenways, will shape how people will live and work here in the future.
Entangled Bank is a complex yet simple network of elements. Each piece whether it is the bird, the plant, the worm or the soil personally contributes to the growth and ultimate survival of each. They are all very different from one another but each is very dependent on the other. For without them the bank would unravel and fail. Within the network still a very personal cycle of life persists that starts with conception, continues with growth and ultimately flourishes or sometimes fails. But the bank itself is meant to sustain and offer every opportunity for its constituents to succeed. This same notion can be related to the natural environment as well as the social landscape of Dallas and also our site.
What if we not only sought to teach and educate about the importance
of living sustainably out of respect for the environment but we
actually sustained and rehabilitated those among us who were
struggling? What if we welcomed them back within the comfort of the
entangled bank and as they grew and flourished we watched them begin to
contribute to the bank themselves? It is our belief that true
sustainability relates not only to the environment but also has key
economic and social impacts.
Read more at the competition website.
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