What does that actually mean in design terms?

Well, I suppose a, a lot of the design for the park is, is trying to future-proof the park really against, uh, large storm bursts and large rainfalls that we are now more intensely experiencing maybe in the country than ever before, uh, as the pattern of climate, uh, begins to change over time.

Because it's low-lying, the River Lee itself rises up higher than the actual park itself, outside of the levee or the dike.

So it means that all that water that flows into that park and that area, and also the docklands area, which is a large, large area, has to be retained within the park and its surroundings for about at least six hours till the tides then go down, and then the water can then flow out through the dike based on gravity.

So it can kinda flow out, but for, for much of the time, you know, because of the high tides, the, the Lee is actually much higher than the actual level of park area itself.

So maybe that's part of the, you know, special uniqueness of this site.

And apart from that, I think it's also about the changing tendency within spatial design in Ireland, in particular the last 10 years, for designing more with water and realizing that, you know, we're experiencing droughts in the summer, we're getting too much rain, in particular at, at periods, it can also be in the summer, by the way, and we have to manage that much more carefully.

Approaching that, Patrick, was it a, a challenge not to slip into some kind of a nostalgia?