Green Artery

The abandoned 1.5-mile DL&W rail corridor connects Buffalo’s downtown with its waterfront through three distinct and historic neighborhoods. The brief was to transform this rail corridor into an iconic, innovative, and inspiring multi-use urban nature trail and green-way. To achieve this goal, we redesigned this corridor as a line spreading nature and natural activities throughout the riverside, park, and urban blocks like an artery carrying blood and fundamental materials from the heart throughout the whole body. Hence, the name “Green Artery” is selected for the corridor. It is a fluid line flowing through the grid network of the city. The existing site of the project is full of green spaces. Thus, we decided to make minimum changes in it by saving the majority of the trees. We saved 81% of the existing trees in the exact current place and planted the rest somewhere else. We have even added a kind of productive greenery, named “community gardens”.

 

Team: Tarlan Poursoti, Hadi Seyednouri, Zeynab Azizian, Saeedeh Garachorllu