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News • News • 28 Feb 2023
Turenscape revitalises a disused waterscape into a floating forest park in China
Situated within the Yangtze River flood plains in Nanchang city in central-east China, the Fishtail park is a rejuvenation project of an ill-treated landscape of 126acres into a floating forest that exhibits stormwater regulation, promotes biodiversity, encourages recreational activities, and reconnects locals with nature. Turenscape Design Institute undertook the project to reimagine the waterscape as one of the largest floating parks which not only gives a unique identity to the new district but also acts as a catalyst for urban development.
Turenscape
The project is part of a larger initiative by the landscape architect of the firm, Kongjian Yu, to demonstrate that it is possible to create new space in cities for people and nat... More
Project • By UNIT Urban New Idea Team • Factories
Floating Forest
Contemporary practice of architecture inevitably engage the question of our impact on the environment.
"When it comes to create more eco-friendly building, solutions provided often relies on high building technology and insignificant addition of greenery. We propose to shift from the technical issue to the ethical one by re-thinking the rapport between human and nature" explained by the UNIT Studio Founder Moyang Yang.
"A promenade through a floating forest where trees come out of reflective volumes creates a mise en-abyme of the nature, which manifest itself in a recursive but yet poetic and playful way.
By means of those fragmented reflections, the user is constantly in relationship with nature, or its representation"
This cinema... More