pearl garden

i am having a last minute design shift. instead of hydroponic gardens at the east end of the site, how about aquaculture tanks for mussels growing up the highway columns? i think they could have stronger connection to my wetland ecology theme, and would be tons more interesting. there could be interactive areas where kids come and fish out a mussel and pry it open for a cultured pearl. wouldn’t that be fun? (i did something similar on a childhood vacation to hawaii..) and it would reinforce the function of the overpass as an armature for these interesting ecologies. some types of mussel aquaculture is actually done in a similar way on pilings:

bouchots

can’t you just see these sprouting up under the perkins row overpass?

~ by agalinski on April 20, 2008.