URBAN DESIGN
Duvivier’s developed public interfaces for important wetlands/estuaries as well as integrating watershed elements on school campuses.
Wetlands and estuaries soak up storm water runoff from further inland before it gets to the ocean, help clean the water, and serve as incubators of life. They are also the places most impacted by construction, infrastructure and our collective lack of environmental awareness upstream and further inland.
The Ballona Wetlands design established guidelines for public access and a blueprint for future communication.
Malibu Lagoon Project is the first designed to naturally prevent runoff from polluting the world famous Surfrider Beach, resulting in tremendous improvements in water quality.
Exhaustive analysis of environmental and socio-economic connectivity at the Port of LA—the second largest in the world–resulted in a pedestrian waterfront plan, the first step toward increasing regional awareness of the impact of upstream pollution and the need for public interface.