The Mound at the Wild Mile Floating Eco-Park
Hosted by Urban River, the call asked designers to develop an artistic wayfinding element to inform visitors of the floating eco-park, The Wild Mile. The project was developed in collaboration with Chicago-based architect, Trent Fredrickson and was short-listed among several proposals.

Project Statement
The Wild Mile has an exciting opportunity to have a presence at street level, both as a beacon to draw people in and as a means for orienting visitors as they arrive. Our proposal for signage explicitly brings parts of the Wild Mile up to the street through a landscape intervention: a vegetative mound that sits between the sidewalk and the river’s edge. The mound expresses the ecological variety of the Wild Mile through plantings, places for birds to perch, and a habitat for bugs and small critters to inhabit. To the west, the new vegetative rug would extend downward to cover up the retaining wall, enhancing the experience of walking along the Wild Mile below.