Reinventing the El Chorrillo Waterfront
El Chorrillo + San Felipe, Panama City, Panama | 2024
For Kina’s Spring 2024 design studio, she collaborated with a group working on larger urban design strategies for re-envisioning the neighborhood of El Chorrillo, a place lacking in infrastructure and flood control investment, safety, and good quality community spaces. Her specific project sought to demonstrate that this neighborhood and the historic UNESCO core of Panama City, San Felipe, will be subjected to flooding from sea level rise and upland weather events over the coming decades.
Her proposal provides an approach for cultivating and reforesting the coastal marshland with a mix of mangrove species, while allowing for a mix of recreational and cultural uses for tourists and residents alike to engage with the biodiversity of this dynamic intertidal zone, which is rapidly changing due to the construction of a U Loop freeway connector constructed a decade prior.