切尔西湾(Chelsea Cove)是一个资源丰富的边缘化城市空间重建模型，它结合了三个前商业码头，创造了8.5英亩的连续开放空间，给纽约一个历史悠久的社区一个活跃，美丽和经验丰富多样的河滨后院。
切尔西湾地块对于岸边公园来说是非常宽的：两个码头构成了海湾，将城市网格延伸到河流中，而在中心的广阔的中央草坪提供了一种开阔的绿地发现在纽约市中央公园外面。接球足球比赛，大规模瑜伽课程和很多日常闲逛的地方，草坪打开了哈德森的景色，并创造了一种无边的感觉在城市的边缘。草坪由一个戏剧性的地形碗定义，它保护公园免受西边高速公路的吼声，并将草坪与一个小规模风景的项链分开，包括与Lynden B.米勒合作设计的入口花园，雕塑由环境艺术家梅格·韦伯斯特，旋转木马和世界级的滑板公园的安装。
除了给成千上万的居民一些急需的开放绿色空间，切尔西湾已经建立了一个新的黄金标准，持久的和可持续的海滨公园设计面对海平面上升和极端天气事件。 MVVA与海洋工程师密切合作，修复和加固115英尺的海墙，并从头开始重建码头结构。新的码头由设计成能够承受浮冰，水载碎片和失控船的冲击的挡泥板系统保护。在整个公园，设计创造了地形感兴趣，同时通过使用EPS泡沫和轻质骨料填充，最小化桩和甲板负荷，通过足够的表土来减重，以确保浮力泡沫在洪水事件期间不会通过景观爆发。这些防洪和减灾策略于2012年10月在飓风桑迪期间进行了测试。在风暴的高峰期，公园的60％被淹没了多达五英尺的盐水。除了对一些植被的轻微损害，公园的仔细设计和健全的建设允许它生存的暴风雨几乎毫发无损。
A model of resourceful reconstitution of marginalized urban space, Chelsea Cove unites three former commercial piers to create 8.5 acres of continuous open space, giving a historic New York neighborhood an active, beautiful, and experientially diverse riverfront backyard.
The Chelsea Cove site is unusually wide for a shore-edge park: two piers frame the cove, extending the city grid out into the river, while in the center of the site, a broad central lawn provides the kind of sweeping open green space rarely found in New York City outside Central Park. The site of pick-up football games, mass yoga sessions, and lots of everyday hanging out, the lawn opens up views across the Hudson and creates a sense of boundlessness at the city’s edge. The lawn is defined by a dramatic landform bowl, which shelters the park from the roar of the West Side Highway and separates the lawn from a necklace of smaller-scale landscapes, including an entrance garden designed in collaboration with Lynden B. Miller, a sculpture installation by environmental artist Meg Webster, a carousel, and a world-class skatepark.
In addition to giving tens of thousands of neighborhood residents some badly needed open green space, Chelsea Cove has established a new gold standard for durable and sustainable waterfront park design in the face of rising sea levels and extreme weather events. MVVA worked closely with marine engineers to repair and reinforce 115 linear feet of sea wall, and to rebuild the pier structures from scratch. The new piers are protected by a system of fenders designed to withstand the impact of ice floes, waterborne debris, and runaway vessels. Throughout the park, the design creates topographical interest while minimizing pile and deck load by using EPS foam and lightweight aggregate fill, weighed down by enough topsoil to ensure that the buoyant foam won’t burst through the landscape during a flood event. These flood prevention and mitigation strategies were tested in October 2012 during Hurricane Sandy. At the storm’s peak, 60 percent of the park was inundated with as much as five feet of salt water. Aside from minor damage to some vegetation, the park’s careful design and sound construction allowed it to survive the storm virtually unscathed.
