NEW ZEALAND STUDY ABROAD STUDIO | WINTER 2019 While on a UW study abroad program in New Zealand, our studio focused on conceptual redesign ideas for an interpretive trail in the residential red zone that was deemed uninhabitable after the 2010/2011 earthquakes in Christchurch. My individual projects for the group Memory, Connection + Being were on the science and history of the earthquakes as well as on a sea level rise path. The earthquakes vignettes portray interpretive trail stop proposals that go through an lighting display where house foundations used to be, a bridge across the river with seismic waves from the earthquakes on the railings, as well as a landform path going through a crack created in the land through lateral spreading. The sea level rise landing would mark the monthly highest tide on a lunar calendar that will create an interpretive trail in the river as water level increases.
