Sorted Slopes

2017 stone

Design team collaboration with Site Workshop Landscape Architects. Dune Peninsula Park, Tacoma, WA

3 rock retaining walls for the new park. The site was a previous industrial smelter that deposited 11 acres of toxic slag into Puget Sound. It then became a EPA Superfund site for 25 years, and has now been transformed into a new waterfront park sitting on top of the slag. Together the rock slopes speak to geologic-type sorting processes that happen in nature, but also to the accretion of materials on this industrial site.