THE WASHINGTON L AND IF AMERICA IS TO BE A GREAT BUT ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER, NATION THIS MUST BECOME TRUE. I AM HAPPY TO JOIN WITH YOU TODAY IN WHAT THE NEGRO STILL IS NOT FREE. ONE SO LET FREEDOM RING FROM THE WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE GREATEST HUNDRED YEARS LATER, THE LIFE OF PRODIGIOUS HILLTOPS OF NEW DEMONSTRATION FOR FREEDOM IN THE HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IS STILL SADLY CRIPPLED HAMPSHIRE. LET FREEDOM RING OUR NATION. BY THE MANACLES OF SEGREGATION FROM THE MIGHTY MOUNTAINS OF FIVE SCORE YEARS AGO, A GREAT AMERICAN, IN AND THE CHAINS OF DISCRIMINATION. NEW YORK. LET FREEDOM RING FROM WHOSE SYMBOLIC SHADOW WE STAND TODAY, ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER, THE THE HEIGHTENING ALLEGHENIES OF SIGNED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. THIS NEGRO LIVES ON A LONELY ISLAND PENNSYLVANIA! MOMENTOUS DECREE CAME AS A GREAT BEACON OF POVERTY IN THE MIDST OF A VAST LET FREEDOM RING FROM THE MONUMENT GROUNDS AT LIGHT OF HOPE TO MILLIONS OF NEGRO SLAVES WHO OCEAN OF MATERIAL PROSPERITY. SNOWCAPPED ROCKIES OF COLORADO! HAD BEEN SEARED IN THE FLAMES OF WITHERING ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER, THE LET FREEDOM RING FROM THE INJUSTICE. IT CAME AS A JOYOUS DAYBREAK TO END NEGRO IS STILL LANGUISHING IN THE CURVACEOUS SLOPES OF CALIFORNIA! THE LONG NIGHT OF THEIR CAPTIVITY. CORNERS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY BUT ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER, THE NEGRO STILL AND FINDS HIMSELF AN EXILE IN HIS SYLVAN THEATER OWN LAND. SO WE HAVE COME HERE WASHINGTON MONUMENT 1 MULTIPLE VOICES GRASS-CRETE PARKING LOT/FLEX SPACE NEW NATIVE GARDEN AT SURVEY LODGE From its beginning Washington DC was constructed out of wilderness; a nature through the creation of a range of spaces for democratic interaction. Two outdoor theater WITNESS TREES & CONVERSATION SPACES that would become emblematic of the American spirit to civilize the wildest of landscapes. spaces replace the previous Sylvan Theater as settings for performance, speeches, protests CORRIDOR VIEWING Even the naming of the early creek “Tiber,” suggests the early forefathers were looking and more informal gatherings. Stretching theater programs across the site provide for WITNESSING NATURE & CULTURE: MULTITUDE OF VOICES AT SURVEY LODGE elsewhere for meaning. Over time, marshes were filled, creeks were converted and the city various scaled events while conceptually communicating the multiple voices of democracy. transformed itself out of the marsh to become the “shining city upon a hill.” The larger theater 9 zone to replace the Sylvan Theater flips the main orientation of the This newly constructed landscape of the National Mall made L’Enfant’s classical audience to make the Washington Monument a soaring backdrop while still allowing for diagram possible, but it also eradicated much of the story of the landscape; a landscape that an expanded audience in its old location to the north for theater in the round. A simple has stood witness to a the roots of a new democracy through the centuries. Old trees and paved stage embedded in the landscape provides flexible use of the space and is wired for “LET FREEDOM vegetation were present for the testimony of democracy since the American experiment power to minimize the amount of equipment necessary to support a variety of events. The A RING” began. But below the surface, nature is stirring, bubbling up with each hydrological event second theater 11 descends into the existing landscape. It is a smaller, more intimate, and to remind us of the Tiber and the heroic effort it takes to keep the shining city dry. Nature, informal space that is shaded by a canopy of trees that are recessed to allow for clear site G B though, has always been here and will continue to transform as our cultural, political and lines to the Jefferson Monument. While the Sylvan Theater is wired for “plug and play” we civic actions inhabit her horizons. consider this site to be “un-plugged”. C F While this ecological story is mostly lost from view by most visitors to the city, the The peeled up undulations also provide much needed shaded space to the site. D millions of citizens who visit the Mall participate in new chapters of a parallel story, that of The arcade to the west 10 provides a generous space to access the monument site that E witnessing democracy. The scales of this witnessing range from the size of an inauguration, could also be used for sheltered programmed activities like markets, talks, or informal GRASS AREA WITNESSING HISTORY: WITNESS TREE SUCCESSION PLANTING to one-on-one interactions to impassioned pleas for justice during protests. performances. New site amenities that include a café 2 , retail space 3 , and public ST SW 17TH The design proposal for the Washington Monument grounds and Sylvan Theater restrooms 7 are also tucked under to further develop and enhance the experience for the seeks to engage the witnessing of both democracy and nature, through a series of landscape new witnesses of democracy. To the west, landscape space is carved in and around existing + 40' WAMO BASE ELEV. +40' 14th ST. SW +33' IND. AVE. SW and architectural interventions that overtly ‘constructed’--serving to reveal the history of the witness trees to promote small gatherings and intimate interactions as another layer of +19' +27' 15th ST. SW development of the Mall, while also writing the next chapter of the constructed landscape. democratic engagement. Along the southern edge of the monument grounds, the landscape is figuratively The landscape that is slid below this peel is clearly constructed and “floating” SECTION A-A “peeled up” to create a new structure that serves as both outdoor theater and building above the hydrologic cycles on the site. Paving surfaces set on pedestals allow for water 1:40 program, blurring the lines between nature and artifice. This peeled up edge also serves as infiltration and flow to storm water recharge cells below the surface. The experience of STAGE a visual buffer for a new tour bus drop off area integrated into a public plaza with sheltered walking on a surface layer just above the sound of moving water puts the “nature” of the MULTIPLE VOICES space under its overhang. The undulations of this peeled up lawn-scape provides articulation mall in context for visitors while also illuminating sustainability practices. The movement of 14TH ST SW 14TH 15TH ST SW 15TH that offers alternating programmable space both above and below. Lines of paving interlaced stormwater continues into a system of wetlands just to the south of the monument grounds. SW AVE IND into the lawn-scape are traced across the site as a means to give definition to the surface for The capacity of these wetlands accommodates the runoff from the southern slopes of the 11 various functions: tightly spaced and gridded to stabilize the ground plane high pedestrian monument grounds during a 100-year storm event. and vehicular traffic, expanding and lifting up to provide seating or terraces, and folding up The result of this new constructed landscape of democracy is symbiotic and to separate theater (event) spaces from each other while also opening up to define skylights dynamic, where culture and nature meets, where both stand witness to the great experiment. to the covered spaces below. On a social and cultural level, these site manipulations facilitate this witnessing STAGE USDA FRUITS + VEGETABLES THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT UNDER CONSTRUCTION, CIRCA 1859 FLIP THE THEATER 12 THE LAWN 10 B A EAST ARCADE C PARKING 15TH ST SW + 40' WAMO BASE ELEV. +40' 14th ST. SW +30' +19' IND. AVE. SW 15th ST. SW 9 2 SHELL STRUCTURE DRAINAGE SECTION B-B 1:40 A EXISTING TREES PLAZA FLOATING CHERRY TREES 14TH ST SW 14TH IND AVE SW AVE IND WEEP WALL GRASS-CRETE WETLAND BIO-FILTER EXISTING TULIP LIBRARY BUS PULL-OFF CATCHMENT AREA WITNESSING NATURE: CULTURAL & ECOLOGICAL PLANTING PLAN B CUT + LIFT TO GATHER AND BE HEARD / MULTIPLE VOICES FLOATING CHERRY TREES UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM BUREAU OF ENGRAVING MAINE AVE SW THE LAWN THE WETLANDS + 40' WAMO BASE ELEV. PERMEABLE SURFACES +23' +28' G +19' IND. AVE. SW IND. AVE. SW +14' 15th ST. SW +7' +2' OHIO DR. SW SECTION C-C SUB-SURFACE CONVEYANCE & 1:40 INFILTRATION CHERRY SUGAR MAPLE ELM WHITE OAK 15TH ST SW 15TH IND AVE SW AVE IND SW AVE IND KUTZ BRIDGE INDEPENDANCE AVE SW C SEEP WALLS TULIP LIBRARY MODULATE LANDSCAPE TO EXTEND AND DEFINE VARIATION IN MEETING AND SITE REVERBERATION PERFORMING SPACES CONSTRUCTED WETLAND BIO-FILTER DETAINS 100-YEAR STORM FLOOD WETLAND BIO-FILTERING SPECIES FOR CATCHMENT AREA WETLANDS D + 40' WAMO BASE ELEV. WITNESSING WATER: GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE +19' 5 +10' IND. AVE. SW +4' TIDAL BASIN IND. AVE. SW +3' 15th ST. SW +2' -3' MAINE AVE. SW MAINE AVE. SW 0' TIDAL BASIN SECTION D-D 1:40 E F ST SW 15TH IND AVE SW AVE IND SW AVE IND N MAINE AVE SW AVE MAINE SW AVE MAINE TUCK IN PROGRAM REINFORCE BROADER CONNECTIONS SITE PLAN 1:50 SEEP WALL WETLANDS TIDAL BASIN STORMWATER DETENTION CONSTRUCTED WETLAND NEW PEDESTRIAN ACCESS TO TIDAL BASIN & THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL BASIN FOR WOODED THEATER GROUNDWATER + 40' WAMO BASE ELEV. +28' +19' 9 IND. AVE. SW +22' 8 MAINE AVE. SW +16' IND. AVE. SW +14' MAINE AVE. SW FLEX SPACE +4' +4'PARKING 0' TIDAL BASIN SECTION E-E 1:40 CONSTRUCTED WETLAND SECTION (A). 1/8”=1’-0” IND AVE SW AVE IND SW AVE IND MAINE AVE SW AVE MAINE SW AVE MAINE ROAD PULL CIRCULATION AND WATER THROUGH TO MAKE CONNECTIONS TO SURROUNDING Sustainability: The Sylvan Theater is a performance-based landscape that features PARKS AND MEMORIAL GROUNDS an undulating topography of lawn and green roof structures.