Islais Community Park

Islais Community Park strives to restore Islais Creek as an interactive wetland that weaves the community and the blue greenway together as one green network while retaining its industrial past. Islais Community Park along with the blue greenway strives to create green space and bring minority residents to the southeast waterfront of San Francisco. As a result of sea-level rise and high industrial use in this land, our project understands and provides an ecological restoration process, industrial adaption, and community connection. The ecological restoration begins with reimagining better street connection filled with trees that aims to mitigate a lot of the pollutant caused by the current industrial vehicles. Furthermore, we have eelgrass and oyster reef to amplify our erosion control and to prevent sea-level rise from destroying the waterfronts. We are also planting more buffer zones, meadows, wetlands, and forests to further enhance the ecological restoration process of cleaning the area, and water, and reinforcing the current living ecology. Our industrial adaption, notably the adaptive reuse plan begins from our research on the projected sea level rise that would submerge most of the Islais channelize creek and surrounding areas. This project moves the industries that will be engaged to nearby open lots and related industries. The frames of the buildings will be kept and repurposed for communal activities, event spaces, and ecological amenities. Lastly, our community connection aims to reconnect disconnection from the residents in the west, south, and north by providing green streets. Islais community park also offers active recreation from skateparks to basketball courts and kayak opportunities. Islais community park is a public-driven space that is determined to establish a public space that unites the people, the ecology, and the industries to coexist together.