Iris Fong | Landscape Architecture Portfolio

Iris Wai Tung Fong, and her Landscape Architecture Portfolio ver. 2021

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Who is currently working as a Graduate Landscape Architect in Stratis Landscape Architects, Northcote.

Who is also working as a Submissions Coordinator in Taylor Cullity Lethlean.

And sometimes, as a sessional tutor in the Melbourne School of Design.

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Growing up in a concrete jungle where urban lives thrive secretly in all corners, be it a pocket park or an industrial pier, Iris has developed a strong passion on uncovering the mystery of different urbanisms and their complex formation materialised in the form of natural, urban and cultural landscapes. Combined with her observation, conceptual and research skills, Iris is determined to pursue a career which focuses on the narrative aspect and poetic expression of the relationship and conflicts between the people and environment.

Want to know more Iris and her work?

Reach her via irisfongwaitung@gmail.com You can also check out her Instagram / LinkedIn account.

STATIONS OF RENCA, SANTIAGO DE CHILE Landscape Monuments Design - Cultural Narrative SUNGAI SEGGET REEXPOSED, JOHOR BAHRU Civic Space Design - Civic Intervention THE MOONEE LIBERATION, TRAVANCORE Creek Revitalization - The Third Landscape THE FUTURISTIC FRONTIER, LILYDALE Strategic Planning - Visionary Planning

SELECTED WORK

THE MILLENNIAL PICTURESQUE : A HONG KONG URBANSCAPE FROM A HONG KONG EYE Landscape Design Methodology - Spatial Experience

T H E M I LLE N N I AL PI C T URE SQ UE : A H O N G KO N G URBA N SCA PE F RO M A HO N G KO N G E Y E P G - M L Arch | I NDE PE NDE NT DES I G N TH ES IS LO CAT ION

S H E K TONG TS UI, H O NG KO NG

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RES E A RCH + DESIGN M E TH O D O LO GY ESTABLIS H M E NT + URBAN L AND S CAPE DESIGN

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JI L L IA N WA L L I S S (+S ID H S INTUS INGHA + ZIM ING XIE )

The Millennial Picturesque: A Hong Kong Urbanscape from a Hong Kong Eye is a research, investigative and explorative thesis project focusing on the Asian urban spaces. It aims to understand the operation and production of these spaces, particularly the Instagram Pier and its home city Hong Kong.

The project begins with the Instagram Pier, an ‘undesigned’ public cargo working area, that stood above all glamorously designed public spaces and rose to fame as being the most Instagrammable spot of the Asia’s World City. It’s a big dilemma: It is not designed as a public urban space, yet it functions as one. Its popularity has hinted the emergence of a new urban space doctrine, specifically evolved in the Asian context, which defies everything we know about a public urban space in the dogma of contemporary Landscape Architecture. It also suggests that the city’s designed urban spaces, produced through a dominating pragmatic approach, have failed the users as these spaces are only designed solely for programs without considering users in mind. However, with little knowledge and recognition on both issues, the new spaces are at risk of being eliminated and replaced with the internationalized spaces – including the Instagram Pier. It becomes a victim of its own fame; subjected to the government’s formalized planning process and turned into another universal waterfront promenade.

SPATIA

Therefore, the thesis is set to respond to this extraordinary phenomenon, addressing its potentials and challenges. It seeks to demystify the Asian urban spaces, unveiling the origins and properties of the urban spaces of the chosen city – Hong Kong, as well as investigating the effect of prevalent pragmatic approach on Hong Kong urban landscapes, which wipes out many unique, ethereal places like the Instagram Pier. Inspired by the English picturesque design, the thesis aims to establish a contemporary picturesque design approach, putting emphasis on harnessing spatial qualities and their ability to engage perception and evoke emotions. Drawing on the images of the Instagram Pier, a new design methodology is developed to and applied to the Pier’s adjacent area as a pilot project, introducing an alternative landscape typology where the landscape is produced through the union of carefully curated terrain and the creative appropriation by the users.

Different from other design theses, the Millennial Picturesque does not attempt to provide concrete design outcomes or universal answers on how landscape architects should rekindle human relationship, through sensual experience, with the place-making process. This is because sensual experience is often subjective and thus there is no solid rules on how place can be produced. Instead, this project serves as a flintstone to initiate dialogues which were lost two centuries ago: connecting humans to the landscapes through emotions and memories. It is through our intimate relationship with the landscape that we as designers and users become more thoughtful and begin caring more about the places we live.

Therefore, by providing a universal platform where users bond with the landscapes personally, we might be one step closer to find the truly ‘successful’ urban places for people, of people, and by people.

Keep this pose, good for getting likes!

TERRAIN MODEL

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+ MIRRIR TROUGH

+ ARTIFICIAL TECTONICS

+ DISTANCE COMPOSITION

TEMPORAL DYNAMICS +

+ REFLECTIVE MATHEMATICS

DEVELOPED TOOLSET

DESIGN METHODOLOGY ( PILOT VER. )

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PANORAMIC SHORE MIRROR TROUGH

LIGHTBATHING VOID

OASIS CREST

AFTERGLOW CLIFF

PANOR AMIC PERSPECTIVE

+ PANORAMIC SHORE

PLAN

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+ AFTERGLOW CLIFF

+ LIGHTBATHING VOID

+ NATIVE TREE ‘WESTERN SOAPBERRY’

+ GLOWING RECESSED CIRCLE

+ TRANSLUCENT CLIMABLE WALL

+ SUNRISE-LIT COLUMNS

DESIGN OUTCOME (FOR THE CONCERNING SITE)

+ INFINITY DECK

+ SEAWATER PUMPING SYSTEM

+ GLOWING CONCRETE FLOOR

+ MIRROR OF THE SKY

*The design journal, which contains the full documentation of the whole research and implementation content, will be published online in late-2021.

+ MIRRIR TROUGH

+ OASIS CREST

TO THE PANORAMIC SHORE

S TAT I ON S O F RE N CA P G - M L Arch | ACA DE MI C I ND IVI D UA L PROJ ECT ( TR AVE LLING STUD IO ) LO CAT ION

CE RROS DE RE NCA , S ANTIAGO DE CHILE

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L A ND S CA PE MO NU M E NT DES IGN

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1. 5 5 H ECTA RES ( MAIN S ITE) + 838.7 H ECTARES ( C OVE R AGE)

C OORD INATO RS

R AY GRE E N + A NTO NIA BES A

Stations of Renca is a set of landscape monuments dedicated to the lost memories and history of Cerros de Renca (Renca Hills) in Santiago de Chile. This studio project is a speculative project based on the work of a Chilean nonprofit organization, Fundación Cerros Isla, which aims to recover and revamp the 26 hills of Santiago, transforming the neglected landscape into quality natural spaces for the public.

Cerros de Renca, located in a strategic location in Santiago, was a sacred site to the Inca people during the preColumbian era. It was where the Inca people guarded the city and exercised their famous solar alignment for the Mapocho Valley. However, the meaning of Renca was lost along with the fall of the Inca Empire when the Spaniards colonized Chile, turning Renca into nothing but another degraded hilltop, covered in trash and scarred by fires.

In order to reveal Rence’s Incan reference and reinstall its cultural significance in the heart of Santiaguinos, a set of landscape monuments, known as “Stations of Renca” collectively, is erected at the spots where the Sun aligns with the Plaza de Armas and the white cross stands. This is achieved by reestablishing the astronomical alignment, both solar and stellar, as well as heightening the vantage point. The set consists of three solar pillar towers and a fortress, with the former being remodeled after the Incan stone solar pillars. Thus, all monuments can be used as stargazing grounds. They can also be used a ceremonial ground, a garden, an amphitheater or a lookout respectively.

P L O M O F O R T R E S S F R A M E D H O LY P E A K

T H I R D S TAT I O N P L A Z A D E F I E S TA S

FIRS T S TAT ION MIRROR OCULU S

Instead of transforming the hills into simple open spaces, Stations of Renca takes it one step further: turning the seemingly ordinary hills into vessels of memories and emotions. This connects the modern people with their ancestors, with the fact that they live on the same land under the same sky. It is through this spiritual connection people would re-establish their bond with the lost hills, cherishing and protecting their motherland wholeheartedly.

With its cultural importance reinstated, Cerros de Renca will be seen as a sacred and meaningful landscape, where everyone loves and cares. Follow the Stations and the meaning of Renca shall unveil in front of you.

S E C O N D S TAT I O N S TA R G A Z I N G G R O U N D

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CULTURA

THE ANCIENT AND MODERN TRIANGLES

INTI THE SUN GOD 33°23’S 70°44’W Winter Solstice Sunset

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CERROS DE RENCA

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Renca

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+ PLOMO FORTRESS W/ WHITE CROSS 33°23’26.4”S 70°42’40.0”W 35m H @ 905m AMSL 355m AGL

SOLAR ALIGNMENT

1ST STATION 33°23’43.1”S 70°44’15.2”W 720m AMSL 170m AGL 2ND STATION 33°23’39.0”S 70°44’13.1”W 690m AMSL 140m AGL 3RD STATION 33°23’36.0”S 70°44’12.3”W 650m AMSL 100m AGL

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GAZING AT 23KM

1 ST PILLAR

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3 RD PILLAR

2 ND PILLAR

ANCIENT SANTIAGO TRIANG

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CERRO CHENA

33°35’39.5”S 70°44’35.1”W 952m MSL 402m AGL QUENCHA CHIENA - PUMA

+ HUENA DE CHENA

33°36’53.8”S 70°44’49.6”W Incan Fortress & Huaca (Sacred Object) Equinox & Winter Solstice

STELLAR ALIGNMENT OVERLAH

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WINTER SOLSTICE NIGHTSKY 0155HR

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STELLA PILLAR CAIRNS for VANTAGE POINTS

CERRO EL PLOMO W/ BOY MUMMY 33°13’ 58”S 70°12’44”W 5434m AMSL (5200m AMSL)

SOLAR PILLAR

MIRROR OCULUS

PLAN FIRST PILLAR TOWER

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CERRO SAN CRISTOBAL

33°25’30.5”S 70°37’58.5”W 850m MSL 300m AGL QUENCHA TUPAHUE - PLACE OF GODS

CONTEMPORARY SANTIAGO TRIANGLE

+ BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

33°25’31.1”S 70°37’59.5”W 22m H @ 850m MSL 300m AGL

+ PLAZA DE ARMAS

33°26’16.7”S 70°39’1.4”W 570m AMSL 20m AGL

for more details + original exhibition panels > https://issuu.com/fwtiris/docs/studio_chile_panel

S U N G A I S E G G E T RE E X P O SE D P G - M L Arch | ACA DE MI C I ND IVI D UA L PROJ ECT LO CAT ION

JOH O R BA H RU, MAL AYS IA

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CIVI C S PACE DES I GN

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0. 7 4 H ECTA RE ( MAIN S QUARE) + 6.7 H ECTARES ( C OVE R AGE)

C OORD INATO RS

E L L I OT S UM M E RS + FIO NA J O H NS O N

What is a civic space? And how can we design a civic space that faithfully reflects the cultural context? These questions are being explored in the case of Johor Bahru.

Despite being a modernized city, Johor Bahru does not have a proper civic space for people. There are many reasons behind the absence of civic spaces, be it the urban development, political issues, or economic development... The Johor Bahruans may have a prosper life, but they lack a civic space to realize their civic rights. Their rights to protect people’s freedom, to gather, to express opinions and publish. And they urgently need one.

In addition to the civic space, the history of the city is also intentionally concealed by the government as a mean to suppress Chinese people, who contributed a lot to the development of the city. This is done by narrowing and covering the Sungai Segget, the mother river of the city, which is the original Chinese settlement as well as the birthplace of modern Johor Bahru.

This project aims to introduce a new civic space in the center of the city that respond to the Malaysian context, and to let the people to understand the history of their hometown. The new civic space, Segget Island Plaza, is designed for undetermined programs, which people can decide their own activities. Sungai Segget, being frozen at 1887, is re-exposed along with its stories and penetrates the urban fabric of Johor Bahru once again in the form of circular patterns. The design also provides shelters for people to escape from the humid heat.

The whole design can be experienced as a journey, which allow people to explore the relationship between the history and contemporary by the means of walking. With the design, now the Johor Bahruans, will be the new energy which drivers the “river flow”.

C LO S E U P B A M B O O S H E LT E R F O R T R O P I C A L W E AT H E R

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STORY ETCHING

COOLING RESERVOIRS

CIVI INTERVENTIO B U I L D I N G D EC O R AT I O N S T H E R I V E R G L O W S AT N I G H T. . .

MASTER PLAN FAC A DE DEC OR ATI ON S

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Welcome to Johor Bahru! You are a visitor to this cit y! Fir s t ...

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You arrive t h e cit y f rom Singa p ore, t his is w h ere a ll commu ter s p as s t hrough.

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S o m et h i ng c atch e s yo u r eye s ...

Wh at’s t h at o n t h e wa l l? Let’s fo l l ow i t ...

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There’s etchi ngs on the ground!

Ah... that tel l s the hi s tor y of c i t y.

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It goe s on and on... An S ungai S eg get! That’s

G ROU N D TR AC ES + S H E LTE R

S E G G E T I S L A N D PL A Z A

TUNNEL

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nd c ro s s p ath with the m othe r river!

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An old cit y ma p in t h e mid d le o f t h e p laza in t h e h ea r t of t h e cit y! D o yo u kn ow t h ere was on ce a n is la n d h e re?

Wh at d id t h e river look like?

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Th e ro a d i s n ot t h e e n d...

A n d d o n ot fo rget t h at ...

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Ever y thi ng i n J ohor B ahr u begi ns wi th Si ngapore... The tradi ng , the peopl e... The c i ti e s are t wi ns from the moment s they e s t abl i shed.

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T H E M OON EE L I BE R AT I O N U G - B Env s | ACA DE MI C I ND IVI D UA L PROJ ECT LO CAT ION

TR AVA NC ORE, ME LBO URNE, VICTO RIA

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CRE E K RE VITA L I S ATIO N

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4. 9 2 H ECTA RES

C OORD INATO RS

MA RG A RE T G ROS E + E LLIOT S UM M E RS + FIO NA J O H NS O N

Moonee Ponds Creek, which was once a natural winding creek, is now notorious for being a stormwater ditch with serious contamination. It is said the creek has lost its soul. This project aims to revive the creek by freeing it from the concrete confinement and to predict how will the creek naturally develop back into a naturalized waterway over years. With the impervious concrete removed, it is expected that the creek will be able to reshape the landscape again. With the power of water as well as nature, the place will come alive again, thriving with plants and animals.

An initial launching pattern will be designed for the creek to play with. The components of the patterns, namely “islands”, are constructed with clayey soil by pouring on top of the land surface. As time goes by, the landform will be reshaped continuously, resulting in a completely different landscape that can only be achieved by the nature. A new ecosystem will be developed as well in the formerly disturbed site, being unique to the Moonee Ponds Creek.

FLUVIAL EVOLUTION

Contrary to many waterways projects, the real designer is in fact the nature who does most of the landscaping work while the human involvement is limited to the pattern design. This is to challenge the idea of “human controls everything” which dominates in the field of Landscape Architecture. In most of the landscaping projects, it is about creating landscapes that can be managed for human entertainment, which disregards the fact that most of the landscapes we see are first created by the nature. This project aims to remind people that nature still governs the world we live, and the nature is too great for us to deny its existence.

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The islands will be constantly destroyed and reshaped through the fluvial process, giving an appearance which can only be produced by the touch of the creek itself.

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MOONEE PONDS CREEK IN TEN YEARS

WORKING MECHANISM A walking steps gabions island steps 1.6m-tall island 0.6m-tall island 0.3m-tall island stormwater drain

concrete banks

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HOW DOES THE ISLANDS RESPOND TO DIFFERENT WATER LEVELS?

WHAT HAPPEN TO THE DEMOLISHED CONCR

The islands come in three different heights, being 0.3m, 0.6m and 1.6m, will be submerged at different water levels respectively.

The original paving is dug up to reveal the so used as the fillings of the gabions, or the mat placed to strengthen the creek banks as well

the gabions and banks are a good place to linger and relax

sound wall Citylink

p e o p l e c a n a cce s s t h e i sl a n d s by wa l ki ng d own t h e s te p s

RETE PAVING?

HOW IS THE EDGE BEING REACTIVATED?

oil beneath. The resulted concrete chunks are either terials for the new concrete banks. The gabions are l as capturing the rubbish from upstream.

The existing fences are torn down to grant people the access to the creek. With the design, the edge of the creek is transformed into a stage. The creek will be the performer and the people will be the audience, with the latter being able to observe the evolution of the former intimately.

for more details + development journal > https://issuu.com/fwtiris/docs/studio_4

T H E FU T U RI S T I C F RO N T I E R

LO CAT ION

L I LY DA L E, ME L BOURNE, VICTO RIA

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STR ATE G I C PL A NNING + DE TAILE D DES IGN

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1 8 0 H ECTA RES

C OORD INATO RS

S I QI NG CH E N + CHRISTOPH E R NE WMAN

MASTER PLAN

P G - M L Arch | ACA DE MI C I ND IVI D UA L PROJ ECT

How will Melbourne look like in 2050? Given the future challenges we face, will our world be worse or better off? In order to maintain our civilization in the midst of crises, should we fully embrace technology, or should we seek refuge in the mother nature?

This gives rise to Cyberhill in the suburb of Lilydale as one of the possible paths which our future may be. This particular site is identified with the help of ArcGIS, which it is deemed to be one of the best locations for future urban development.

Sitting at the urban-rural fringe with nearly half of the land reserved as green open spaces, Lilydale is the frontier where nature confronts the city. This conflicting character makes Lilydale a potential site to explore a possible answer for the future question. Under this circumstance, Cyberhill, locating at the corner of Lilydale, is a visionary community rooted in technology, which aims to preserve natural environment as much as possible while to fulfil the demands of our growing urban population. With Cyberhill, we know there is still a future for us despite of the massive challenges lying ahead.

CONCEPT

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VIRTUAL OFFICE HUB CYBERHILL JUNCTION HERITAGE AREA

PRESERVING E XPANDING EXISTING TREES AND GREEN SPACES WHILE FULFILLING THE NEEDS OF 6000+ PEOPLE WITH THE HELP OF TECHNOLOGY

URBAN RESERVE

MIXED-USE HUB ORDINARY SMALL HOUSE

CYBER EDEN

W/ BATTERY SUNBATHING GROUND

CENTRAL COMMUNAL SPACE

UNDERGROUND APARTMENTS

GREEN CORRIDOR

ONE-HECTARE GRID

BOUNDARY OF LILYDALE PARK + OPEN SPACES WATERBODY BUILDING BOUNDARY OF LILYDALE MAJOR ROAD GREEN OPEN SPACES

WATERBO DY E XISTING B UILDINGS PARC EL - APARTM ENTS PARC EL - HO US ES PARC EL - M IXED - US ED [COMMERCIAL + INDUSTRIAL + INSTITUTIONAL] GL A S S TOWER + DO M E

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STRIP O F TREES

ADAPTING TO FUTURISTIC LIVING

HIGHSPEED PODS

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FROM TRAINS AND CARS TO HYPERLOOP AND DRIVELESS POD

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UNDERGROUND CAPSULE RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT [METABOLIST ARCHITECTURE]

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MIXED-USE GLASS TOWER FOR COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES [HIGH-TECH / NEO-FUTURISTIC ARCHITECTURE]

PREFABRICATED CUSTOMISED MOBILE CAPSULES

TO ALLOW FUTURE GENERATIONS TO APPRECIATE WHAT WE HAVE IN 2017 AND CHERISH WHAT THEY HAVE IN 2050

CROWN JEWEL CYBER EDEN

AN ULTIMATE TECHNOLOGY-POWERED GREEN HOUSE TO PRESERVE DELICATE ECOSYSTEMS WHICH WILL NOT SURVIVE IN 2050

GLASS DOME

EN CYBER ED

ENTER VIA UNDERGROUND TUNNEL

E N T E R V I A PAT H APARTMENTS MIXED -USE TOWER

VIRTUAL PROJECTION

UNDERGROUND TUNNEL FROM APARTMENTS

GLASS DOME

CENTRAL LAKE ACT AS V I R T U A L S TA G E

for more details + original exhibition panels > https://issuu.com/fwtiris/docs/pg_studio_4_panel

Iris Wai Tung Fong, and her Landscape Architecture Portfolio ver. 2021

ND FIXTURE

EXISTING CONCRETE CANTILEVER

FIVE-TOOTHED TOWER

EXISTING CONCRETE STRUCTURAL TRUSS

MAIN TIMBER STRUCTURE IS ELEVATED BY CONCRETE FOUNDATION TO AVOID PROLONGED CONTACT WITH WATER

SEVEN-TOOTHED TOWER

PAVING WITH PRECAST CONCRETE MODULES

EXISTING FINISHING EXISTING CONCRETE WALL