Master Plan

Community1 >690 people

Community1 >690 people

Community2: >2083 people

Community3: >1017 people

Mangrove

KorleLagoon

Community4 >1576 people

Tuesday Market

Football Park

Timber Market

Identity Regeneration of the Ancient Garden

A piazza that can carry large-scale activities and daily leisure needs

MIRC

2022 | Guastalla

Design competition for the Ancient Garden of the Ducal Palace

Guastalla, Reggio Emilia Province, Emilia Romagna, Italy

Individual Academic Work

Tutor: Kai Gu August 2022

The site locates in the historical center of Guastalla, between the Guastalla Medical Center and the Ducal Palace. After experiencing the Medieval, Renaissance, and Industrial Times, this site serves the urban residents together with the Ducal Palace as a public urban space. Compared with the two squares, Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini and Piazza I Maggio, near the site, the site has the largest area and can carry a large number of people. It is most likely to meet the needs of large-scale activities often held in Guastalla.

TTherefore, the design positioning of the project is "an urban public space that can meet the needs of large-scale activities and daily recreation." The project faces two main problems. One is how to carry out large-scale activities while meeting the needs of daily use; the other is how to remind visitors of the profound historical context of the site while serving as a public space in the city.

The site locates in Guastalla, Reggio Emilia Province, Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. It locates in the town's historical center, between the historical building Ducal Palace and Guastalla Medical Center.

Design Goal

After experiencing the Medieval, Renaissance, and Industrial Times, this site is now used as public land. It has the potential to carry a large number of people and large-scale activities. The goal is "to create an urban public space that can meet the needs of large-scale activities and daily recreation."

The building complex built around the square became the beginning of the layout and development of

There is little infrastructure, and the

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Design

Explaination

Because the site has experienced changes in style and function, the ancient brick wall texture of the building outer skin and ancient wall remains on the site is selected to show the historical context of the site strata, and the texture is abstractly interpreted again with modern materials.

Explaination

The design strategy mainly solves four major problems faced by the site:

In the limited space, we should expand the depth of the space visually and increase the viewing angle of the Ducal Palace.

Improve its crowd-carrying capacity as public land for large-scale activities, market exhibitions, and festivals, maximize the available hard land area, and set up as many infrastructure facilities as possible to meet daily use.

To integrate the local culture of Guastalla, enhance the site's sustainability as much as possible, and increase the area of the soft underlying surface and plant planting.

According to the current situation, people shall treat the ancient brick walls left on the site differently.

Guastalla

A new place to visit

Here we have...

A Dryland fountain for your children to have some fun during weekends & Mirror pool to offer a new aspect for you to admire the Ducal palace

B Concentrated area for largescale activities in Guastalla

C Recreation space to offer you a place to relax outside

D Interactive devices offer a way for visitors to use this piazza and have accessible communication freely.

Material

The structure of the device is iron, with wooden louvers on the top and PVC waterproof strips on both ends of the blade.

Plant Usage Arrangement

Keep proper conversation distance. Used as audience seat.

movable device

Use it on sunny days

Use it on rainy days

Adjust the shutter to control the sun exposure.

Close the shutter to take shelter from rain.

Material

Italian Red Brick

Tile

What you can do

Embossed Concrete

Marble

Broken Red Brick

Grass

"You can freely walk in this space with directional hints."

"You can have a private conversation with your friends on the benches between Italian cypresses."

"You can spend your spare time and enjoy the tree shade of Common Lindens ."

Material

Concrete Almm Marble

Italian Red Brick

Tile

What you can do

"You visit Ducal Palace and spend your leisure time chatting with friends here"

"You can also attend the Week Market activities held every week and the famous italian festival 'Lost Animals and Plants' held annually in Gustalla. "

Broken Red Brick

Brick

"You can take your children here to have some fun"

Current flood divection

Original flood divection

Flood area

Current river courses & Reservoir

Current flood divection

Agricultural losses

Original river courses

Original flood divection

Safety loss of life and property

Loss of biodiversity

Floodplain

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Weaving rivers

A resilient landscape design oriented by flood adaptability

Acadamic Work

Prague, The Czech Republic

Individual Work

Tutor: Pang Li

December 2022

The project is located in the floodplain at the confluence of the Vltava River and Benounka River on the outskirts of Prague. Since the floodplain is located upstream of the Vltava river flowing through Prague, it is of great locational significance for preventing or delaying floodwaters from entering the center of Prague.

Due to the wrong river management in recent years, the historical river course has been artificially filled or shortened and straightened. Although the historic confluence of the Benounka river and Vltava river and other historic waterways are still visible and forced to be used during floods, they still cannot regulate or slow down the surge of river flow during heavy rains in any way.

The planning goal of this project is to realize the resilience of the landscape, and the design strategies of flood resilience, economic resilience, and biodiversity resilience were put forward, and then the flood-adaptive design of suburban parks was carried out. Through diverse water landscape designs, the Vltava river and Benounka river were woven together to relieve the pressure of floods on a single waterway.

Site Analysis

Flood risk

Insuffient flood-adaptive facilities Artificial flood control facilities that weaken the river's flood discharge capacity

The floodplain town, Çernošice, presents an sustainable farming

Construction of multi-level road system

Activities and temporary installation heavily dependent on the transportation system

Average

Landscape infrastructure construction

Insufficient landscape infrastructure such as seats that can not meet the needs of high-density crowds

Addition of sports facilities

Inseffitcent sports facilities construction that does not match sports demand

Diversified habitat construction

Insufficient vegetation configuration that can adapt to the floodplain habitat Single vegetation type & chaotic plant configuration

Černošice

7,925 inhabitants

Average age 38.8 floodplain area spans five Prague city districts and a Central Bohemian Çernošice, and covers an area of approximately 1300 hectares. This excellent opportunity for the development of recreational, farming and the development of valuable river views.

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Legend

Settlement

Water Body

Agriculture

Bare Land /Brownfield Buildings

Q5 Flood Area

Q20 Flood Area

Q50 Flood Area

Q100 Flood Area

Floodplain Area

Cycling Road

Railway Design Area & Area of Interest

City Districts

Road

Railway Station