Every Californian knows about the San Andreas Fault, but closer to home and not so well known is the Rose Canyon Fault, which makes a journey through La Jolla, Coronado, and Downtown San Diego, where, through the efforts of city planners, its path has turned into public parks.
One such park is nearing completion in the East Village at the corner of Island Avenue and 14th Street — appropriately named “Fault Line Park.”
“To say that designing a park on a fault zone was a challenge is not actually true; it was really more of an inspiration for design expression,” said landscape architect Martin Poirier, FASLA of Spurlock Poirier, the park’s designers.
The actual fault itself is expressed by the main pathway, which divided the park into two sections. The largest area is flat and undisturbed, as though nothing has happened on that land.
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