Yuzhong
China , 2019
The extension and urbanization project are located in the West China in the arid region of Gansu.
The District of Yuzhong, part of the City of Lanzhou has been engaged a great urban territorial project from several years.
The specific site project on which we have established a proposal is from many aspects, emblematic of a typical amazing landscape of West China.
The main ambition of this project is to integrate the human conditions of this landscape with a new form of sustainable urbanization.We want to integrate these villages and the agriculture in an urban proposal that not destroy the History of that place redeveloping a new water system of irrigation that it’s the main earth resilience question to resolve.
The water question for this territory is the elementary condition to maintain the population and the agriculture activity, particularly with a densification process. In this part of West China, the evaporation of water is a very complex question
The urban and landscape strategy is to work directly on the quality of the ground.
We proposed different interventions:
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A. We propose to plant on the hill in the south a global forest that will reduce the temperature
B. Clouds will be more present, and will assist in an increased rainfall
C. We will capture the water from the hills by a series of filter blocks upstream which will be held in storage tanks.
D. We will develop Saul Basins to collect filtered water and store
E. We will cover south-nord canals by a series of long pedestrian promenade to the Ninghe river.
F. We will obtain a total stored water volume of 1 000 000 m3 / year
G. We propose to use complementary water by catching the raining water on the roof of each building, and also transforming domestic water consumption patterns in the water suppy.
The ground is a social, economic and political question. The ‘Climate Restoration Project “wants to demonstrate that with techniques and intelligence we can invert the Earth degradation process.
Project in partnership with the CSTB