White Park is a prominent community landscape shaped by a largely unseen industrial history. Its berms weave through the forest, the site once functioned as an oil tank storage field. An infrastructural use whose environmental consequences persist in the land today. The memorial is positioned at the park’s primary entrance, marking the threshold between everyday recreation and buried extraction.
Embedded within a landscape of controlled burning and regrowth, the memorial participates in the site’s ongoing ecological cycles. The enclosing berms frame the descent, completing a spatial sequence that registers loss, exposure and renewal, while tracing the imprint of an industrial burn that remains legible in the terrain.
This Capstone project was completed in Undergraduate Studio IV during Spring 2022 under Prof. Judith Wasserman with advising from Profs.Stefania Staniscia and Vaike Haas.