MSLA’s 500 acres-park design is inspired by the verdant rolling hills and agricultural history of Nebraska with the desire to fuse art and nature. The park provides residents of Omaha with experiences ranging from the monumental to intimate. At the western edge of the site, a series of sculptural stormwater detention ponds linked by a trail system create an ecological backbone to the development. To the west, a public park complete with an outdoor amphitheater, children’s playground and water park aims to give the community a vibrant, urban social gathering space, one imbued with both sculpture and parkland. To the south, the 50-acre Applied Underwriter’s campus sits at the crown of a hill, wrapped by prairie and oak woodlands. The entire development is grounded in the desire to honor the inherent beauty of the Midwest landscape.

MSLA占地500英亩的公园设计灵感来自于内布拉斯加州青翠起伏的丘陵和农业历史，渴望将艺术与自然融合在一起。该公园为奥马哈居民提供了从纪念碑到亲密的体验。在场地的西部边缘，一系列雕塑般的雨水滞留池通过步道系统连接，为开发项目创造了生态支柱。西侧是一个公共公园，包括室外露天剧场、儿童游乐场和水上乐园，旨在为社区提供一个充满活力的城市社交聚会空间，一个充满雕塑和公园的空间。在南面，50英亩的应用保险公司的校园坐落在山顶上，周围环绕着大草原和橡树林地。整个开发是基于尊重中西部风景的内在美的愿望。

▼Site Context

▼Masterplan

▼Greenway plan enlargement

▼Crescent Basin 1

In 2019, a series of unprecedented floods ravaged Eastern Nebraska and the greater Omaha metropolitan area. Between the years of 2019 and 2020, the Omaha community suffered over 1.3 billion dollars in damages; farms were shuttered; families lost their homes. Disastrous flooding has become the new normal of a changing climate, a problem exacerbated in this region by urbanization that increases impervious runoff and flood-level peak flows. The Heartwood Greenway System, which anchors a 500-acre development in Omaha, Nebraska, spearheaded by Applied Underwriters Insurance company, is designed to help protect adjacent communities and farms from extreme climate events. Meyer Studio’s goal was to go beyond managing stormwater and instead bring nature’s ebb and flow to the foreground and encourage people to be more conscious observers of the natural world.

2019年，一系列前所未有的洪水肆虐东内布拉斯加州和大奥马哈都会区。从2019年到2020年，奥马哈社区遭受了超过13亿美元的损失，农场关闭，家庭失去了家园。灾难性洪水已经成为气候变化的新常态，城市化加剧了这个地区的问题，增加了不透水的径流量和洪水峯值流量。心木绿道系统，锚定在奥马哈，内布拉斯加州的500英亩的发展，由应用保险公司带头，旨在帮助保护相邻的社区和农场免受极端气候事件。Meyer Studio的目标不仅仅是管理雨水，而是将大自然的潮起潮落推向前臺，并鼓励人们更有意识地观察自然世界。

▼Crescent Basin Construction

▼Flooding Diagram

▼Crescent Basin 2

▼Outfall

The Greenway System was conceived to connect the Heartwood site together and to the surrounding neighborhoods, while capturing 170-acre feet of storm water run-off. The intent to create an exceptional experience and the sheer size of the project provided a rare opportunity to rethink infrastructure.  Prior to the involvement of the landscape architects, the engineers had planned and built a series of unremarkable and poorly functioning basins at the property's boundaries. Once on board as design lead, the landscape team collaborated with project engineers and introduced an integrated approach, a hybrid condition of infrastructure as artful composition, designed to mitigate flooding.  

绿道系统的构想是将心木基地连接在一起，并与周围的社区连接起来，同时捕捉170英亩的雨水径流。创造一个特殊体验的意图和项目的巨大规模提供了一个难得的机会来重新思考基础设施。在景观设计师参与之前，工程师们已经在物业的边界规划并建造了一系列不起眼且功能不佳的盆地。作为设计负责人，景观团队与项目工程师合作，引入了一种综合的方法，将基础设施的混合条件作为巧妙的组合，旨在缓解洪水。

▼Cosmic Bowl

▼Models and grading

▼Cosmic bowl perspective

▼habitat diagram

Through a series of sculptural earthen water vessels that flow sinuously across the land, we are elevating ecological awareness by visibly marking time and change. While flood mitigation via these earthen vessels is central to sustainable solutions, the strategy includes replenishing aquifers, reestablishing native woodlands and wetlands, and restoring precious topsoil by reintroducing prairie grasses.

通过一系列雕塑般的陶製水罐蜿蜒流过大地，我们通过明显的标记时间和变化来提升生态观念。虽然通过这些土船缓解洪水是可持续解决方案的核心，但该战略包括补充含水层，重建原生林地和湿地，并通过重新引入草原草来恢復宝贵的表土。

▼Park of Parks perspective

▼vessel perspectives

▼tree nursery

Park trails provide access throughout as they weave their way above, below, and aside the expressive forms of the earthen basins. Practical in mitigation, the site comes together as a series of sculpted landscapes that are performative, distinctive, ever-changing, and memorable. By making the effects of climate change visible and legible, the Greenway System establishes an expanded role for the design of climate infrastructure that can help foster awareness and connection to the natural world.

公园小径提供了通往整个公园的通道，因为它们在上面、下面和旁边编织着富有表现力的土盆。在缓解的实践中，该场地汇集成一系列的雕塑景观，具有表演性，独特，不断变化，令人难忘。通过使气候变化的影响可见和清晰，绿道系统为气候基础设施的设计确立了更大的作用，有助于提高人们对自然世界的认识和联系。

Working closely with Applied Underwriters, we have created a regional park and greenway system that reimagines climate change infrastructure design and furthers the idea of what a public park can and should be.

与应用保险公司密切合作，我们创建了一个区域公园和绿道系统，重新构想气候变化的基础设施设计，并进一步推动了什么是一个公共公园可以和应该是的想法。

Construction began in spring 2019 and is anticipated to be completed by 2023.   

建设于2019年春天开始，预计2023年完工。

项目名称：Heartwood Greenway System
业主单位：Applied Underwriters
项目总监：David Meyer
设计单位：MSLA
主创设计：David Meyer
设计团队：Meyer Studio Land Architects
施工单位：Applied Underwriters Insurance Company

MSLA’s 500 acres-park design is inspired by the verdant rolling hills and agricultural history of Nebraska with the desire to fuse art and nature. The park provides residents of Omaha with experiences ranging from the monumental to intimate. At the western edge of the site, a series of sculptural stormwater detention ponds linked by a trail system create an ecological backbone to the development. To the west, a public park complete with an outdoor amphitheater, children’s playground and water park aims to give the community a vibrant, urban social gathering space, one imbued with both sculpture and parkland. To the south, the 50-acre Applied Underwriter’s campus sits at the crown of a hill, wrapped by prairie and oak woodlands. The entire development is grounded in the desire to honor the inherent beauty of the Midwest landscape.

MSLA占地500英亩的公园设计灵感来自于内布拉斯加州青翠起伏的丘陵和农业历史，渴望将艺术与自然融合在一起。该公园为奥马哈居民提供了从纪念碑到亲密的体验。在场地的西部边缘，一系列雕塑般的雨水滞留池通过步道系统连接，为开发项目创造了生态支柱。西侧是一个公共公园，包括室外露天剧场、儿童游乐场和水上乐园，旨在为社区提供一个充满活力的城市社交聚会空间，一个充满雕塑和公园的空间。在南面，50英亩的应用保险公司的校园坐落在山顶上，周围环绕着大草原和橡树林地。整个开发是基于尊重中西部风景的内在美的愿望。

▼Site Context

▼Masterplan

▼Greenway plan enlargement

▼Crescent Basin 1

In 2019, a series of unprecedented floods ravaged Eastern Nebraska and the greater Omaha metropolitan area. Between the years of 2019 and 2020, the Omaha community suffered over 1.3 billion dollars in damages; farms were shuttered; families lost their homes. Disastrous flooding has become the new normal of a changing climate, a problem exacerbated in this region by urbanization that increases impervious runoff and flood-level peak flows. The Heartwood Greenway System, which anchors a 500-acre development in Omaha, Nebraska, spearheaded by Applied Underwriters Insurance company, is designed to help protect adjacent communities and farms from extreme climate events. Meyer Studio’s goal was to go beyond managing stormwater and instead bring nature’s ebb and flow to the foreground and encourage people to be more conscious observers of the natural world.

2019年，一系列前所未有的洪水肆虐东内布拉斯加州和大奥马哈都会区。从2019年到2020年，奥马哈社区遭受了超过13亿美元的损失，农场关闭，家庭失去了家园。灾难性洪水已经成为气候变化的新常态，城市化加剧了这个地区的问题，增加了不透水的径流量和洪水峯值流量。心木绿道系统，锚定在奥马哈，内布拉斯加州的500英亩的发展，由应用保险公司带头，旨在帮助保护相邻的社区和农场免受极端气候事件。Meyer Studio的目标不仅仅是管理雨水，而是将大自然的潮起潮落推向前臺，并鼓励人们更有意识地观察自然世界。

▼Crescent Basin Construction

▼Flooding Diagram

▼Crescent Basin 2

▼Outfall

The Greenway System was conceived to connect the Heartwood site together and to the surrounding neighborhoods, while capturing 170-acre feet of storm water run-off. The intent to create an exceptional experience and the sheer size of the project provided a rare opportunity to rethink infrastructure.  Prior to the involvement of the landscape architects, the engineers had planned and built a series of unremarkable and poorly functioning basins at the property's boundaries. Once on board as design lead, the landscape team collaborated with project engineers and introduced an integrated approach, a hybrid condition of infrastructure as artful composition, designed to mitigate flooding.  

绿道系统的构想是将心木基地连接在一起，并与周围的社区连接起来，同时捕捉170英亩的雨水径流。创造一个特殊体验的意图和项目的巨大规模提供了一个难得的机会来重新思考基础设施。在景观设计师参与之前，工程师们已经在物业的边界规划并建造了一系列不起眼且功能不佳的盆地。作为设计负责人，景观团队与项目工程师合作，引入了一种综合的方法，将基础设施的混合条件作为巧妙的组合，旨在缓解洪水。

▼Cosmic Bowl

▼Models and grading

▼Cosmic bowl perspective

▼habitat diagram

Through a series of sculptural earthen water vessels that flow sinuously across the land, we are elevating ecological awareness by visibly marking time and change. While flood mitigation via these earthen vessels is central to sustainable solutions, the strategy includes replenishing aquifers, reestablishing native woodlands and wetlands, and restoring precious topsoil by reintroducing prairie grasses.

通过一系列雕塑般的陶製水罐蜿蜒流过大地，我们通过明显的标记时间和变化来提升生态观念。虽然通过这些土船缓解洪水是可持续解决方案的核心，但该战略包括补充含水层，重建原生林地和湿地，并通过重新引入草原草来恢復宝贵的表土。

▼Park of Parks perspective

▼vessel perspectives

▼tree nursery

Park trails provide access throughout as they weave their way above, below, and aside the expressive forms of the earthen basins. Practical in mitigation, the site comes together as a series of sculpted landscapes that are performative, distinctive, ever-changing, and memorable. By making the effects of climate change visible and legible, the Greenway System establishes an expanded role for the design of climate infrastructure that can help foster awareness and connection to the natural world.

公园小径提供了通往整个公园的通道，因为它们在上面、下面和旁边编织着富有表现力的土盆。在缓解的实践中，该场地汇集成一系列的雕塑景观，具有表演性，独特，不断变化，令人难忘。通过使气候变化的影响可见和清晰，绿道系统为气候基础设施的设计确立了更大的作用，有助于提高人们对自然世界的认识和联系。

Working closely with Applied Underwriters, we have created a regional park and greenway system that reimagines climate change infrastructure design and furthers the idea of what a public park can and should be.

与应用保险公司密切合作，我们创建了一个区域公园和绿道系统，重新构想气候变化的基础设施设计，并进一步推动了什么是一个公共公园可以和应该是的想法。

Construction began in spring 2019 and is anticipated to be completed by 2023.   

建设于2019年春天开始，预计2023年完工。

项目名称：Heartwood Greenway System
业主单位：Applied Underwriters
项目总监：David Meyer
设计单位：MSLA
主创设计：David Meyer
设计团队：Meyer Studio Land Architects
施工单位：Applied Underwriters Insurance Company