I started looking at the early transportation and what is currently available to the site. The earliest form would have been by wagon, but at one point Newark could be accessed by boat, train, interurban, or motor vehicle. All but the car has been considered obsolete and have been retired from service.
Some of the comments were about letting the artists design part of the area and start to make it their own. As I looked around the site and the entry points into the city, I figured that what could be better than letting them design the first impressions of the area. The below is a compilation of the major entry points into the city.
Looking back towards the jail and open park area across the canal. 
Looking towards the jail form below the Amphitheatre
Another view looking more towards the Amphitheatre
A view looking towards the expanded parking garage. The thought is to make the side facing the street would be a little more historical in appearance so it would relate to the surrounding buildings while the sides towards the parks could be done in a manner to relate more to the use of the parks. 
1 comment:
It's a brilliant idea to let them create the entries to their district. As a process of marking boundary and defining area, setting aside a perimeter strip that is visually connected can go a long way to define this as a coherent district.
You may want to go ahead and set aside the constraints and framework that the artists need to work in so that the area is still cohesive.
For instance are all the entries marked by an arch, an obelisk or a ceramic painted cow?
I'm being slightly facetious, but you get the idea, setting the boundaries and allowing the artists to subvert them and make them their own, really becomes what your project is about.
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