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for daily recreational activities and other area during the monsoon season (up to grade each day. The amount of cleansed
cultural services. For these objectives, 200,000m3). This tilled landscape also water is enough to keep the wetlands
three strategies were applied: turns the otherwise hard clay surface soil nourished during the dry season and
into a wet and spongy habitat allowing a turn the shallow shoreline into a life
3.1 Recycle and reuse rich native community to be established, supporting ecotone that allows a lush
All existing trees on the site have been with minimum irrigation or maintenance vegetation community to be established.
preserved and integrated. To keep the needed during the dry season. This Secondly, while the major roads are
budget low, all main roads of the existing modular landscape can be easily executed preserved and reused, a leaner cut is made
grid are also being preserved. Both the by one singular digger and minimises its in the middle of the pavement to create a
sports centre and museum are designed dependence on labor skill and makes the permeable bio-swale and flower bed that
using the existing factory buildings, which army operation feasible. separates bicycle lanes and pedestrian
will be fully integrated into the landscape. The foundation and foot of each islet paths, bringing the wide truck road to a
The demolished concrete materials will are consolidated using recycled concrete human scale.
be recycled for the earthwork foundation materials. While pre-existing trees are to Thirdly, for the sports centre and
and paving. remain at the centre of individual islands, museum that make use of the existing
young seedlings of the canopy trees are buildings, the principle of porosity is also
3.2 Creating porosity and wetlands planted on each of the newly constructed applied to transform the factory building
Firstly, cut-and-fill is used to create mounds at minimum cost. The wetlands by daylighting portions of the roofs and
wetlands dotted with islets. Without are designed at two elevations, with a allowing the living landscape to penetrate
importing or exporting earthwork, three deeper core area and the terraced shallow through the extensive concrete core.
constructed wetlands scattered with shoreline. The latter is connected to the
hundreds of mini-islands are created linear water remediating wetland built 3.3 Initiating a low maintenance “Messy
by simple cut and fill to transform the along the north and west border of the Nature”
concrete-paved ground into a spongy and park that filtrates the contaminated water The modulated landform with a
porous landscape, which is expected to from the canal, and cleanses 8152m3 of diverse micro-environment initiates
retain stormwater from the surrounding water from the poorest V grade to III the evolution of a semi-natural plant

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