WORK STUDIO PRESS NEWS << BACK URBN DRY DOCK NO. 1 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2007 – 2009 Now a vital center of the Navy Yard revitalization, the Urban Outfitters (URBN) campus is expanded around the submerged historic Dry Dock No.1, the ultimate destination for the three-mile riverfront walk planned along the Delaware River. URBN’s campus becomes an extension of the public realm of Philadelphia, touted as a poster child for industrial urban redevelopment. True to the industrial scale and character of the Yard, the publicly accessible landscape reinterprets the historic craneway as a promenade, workyards as dockside terraces, and criss-crossed railtracks as runways through steel walls curved like ship hulls. URBNites describe the regenerated landscape as “feeling as though it’s always been there” – of course, wearing new clothes. CLIENT + COLLABORATORS URBN, Inc.; Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle, architects; Advanced GeoServices, Corp., engineers; Blue Wing Environmental, environmental engineers Please Wait © 2021 D.I.R.T. studio

WORK STUDIO PRESS NEWS schtick peeps clients + collaborators contact D.I.R.T. studio is a critical design practice driven by a love for the landscape, fascination with site histories, concern for marginalized communities and an obsession with urban regeneration. We strive to understand the complex social and environmental systems of each unique site and context, inspiring us to make richly layered landscapes of ecological and cultural production. Our goal is to achieve resourceful, robust landscape armatures through research, design and application of innovative and ecologically-based technologies. D.I.R.T. studio strives to be catalytic and proactive, reframing challenges as opportunities and approaching sustainability as common sense. Small but mighty, we lead the conceptualization of projects in collaboration with teams of architects, planners, engineers, ecologists, artists and historians. We take great joy in the collective endeavor to reveal and craft landscapes that foster lasting stewardship. D.I.R.T. studio upholds design criteria that guide decision-making toward social relevance and ecological integrity. Communities’ stories establish the groundwork for our design approach to revitalize neighborhoods through a participatory process of generating healthy landscapes. Making complex layers legible and accessible to all participants, we render simple form to dynamic processes while reworking excavated and inventive materials with an artistic vengeance. We give voice to the landscape and aspire to the extra-ordinary to create grounded, authentic places. Please Wait © 2021 D.I.R.T. studio