新公园溶解其中期外围，以便在整个场地和相邻的文化和公民机构之间自由行人运动。一个简单的构造策略，灵感来自于自然堤坝的地形，实现空间连续性和灵活性。
弧形土方结构形成了一条可达的路径，连接了公园的上部立面与城市建造的堤坝的基础。这个地形包括一个大的草坪，为公民事件和自发娱乐创建一个露天剧场。在公园的上部，海滨长廊提供城市街道和会议中心之间以及市政厅广场和公园之间的连接。有一个120英尺长的喷泉俯瞰草坪和河流超越，公园作为目的地，激活公民核心。暴露的骨料混凝土，单位摊铺机和砖瓦都是从相邻的空间借来的。种植设计使用榆树和活橡树反映公园的高地条件，而甜树胶，南部玉兰和yaupon hollies定义其低地海拔。
仅在20个月内设计和建造，预算极为有限，在公开低招标程序下，其细节受到限制。然而，忏悔园的更大的举动的成功已经很清楚了。它是家庭定期音乐事件，家庭采取了它的喷泉，城市启动了中央绿色的下一个阶段，毗邻的市政厅广场雕塑法院的更新。忏悔园的重新设计也是巴吞鲁日的“中央绿色”的第一阶段 – 一个连续的开放空间网络，它结合目前不连通的文化和公民机构，并采取措施减轻由建设堤坝创建的市中心和河流之间的分界。
The new park dissolves its midcentury perimeter to free pedestrian movement across the site and among adjacent cultural and civic institutions. A simple tectonic strategy, inspired by the landform of the natural levee, achieves spatial continuity and flexibility.
An arcing earthwork structures an accessible path joining the upper elevations of the park with the base of the city’s constructed levee. This landform embraces a large lawn, creating an amphitheater for civic events and spontaneous recreation. At the upper elevations of the park, a promenade provides a connector between city streets and the convention center and between City Hall Plaza and the park. With a 120-foot long fountain overlooking the lawn and river beyond, the park operates as a destination, activating the civic core. Exposed aggregate concrete, unit pavers and brick tile are borrowed from the neighboring spaces. The planting design uses elms and live oaks to reflect the upland conditions of the park, while sweet gums, southern magnolia, and yaupon hollies define its lowland elevations.
Designed and constructed in only 20 months, with an extremely limited budget, and under public low-bid procedures, its details are restrained. The success of Repentance Park’s larger moves, however, is already clear. It is home to regular musical events, families have adopted its fountain, and the city has initiated the next phase of the Central Green, a renewal of the adjacent City Hall Plaza Sculpture Court. The redesign of Repentance Park is also the first phase of Baton Rouge’s “Central Green” — a network of continuous open space that unites currently disconnected cultural and civic institutions and takes steps to mitigate the division between downtown and the river created by the constructed levee.
