In this exclusive movie, Andrew Buck of Turenscape discusses the flood-resistant topography of the Chinese landscape firm’s award-winning wetland park in Jinhua, China.
Yanweizhou Park, which was crowned World Landscape of the Year at World Architecture Festival 2015, is a 26-hectare wetland park at the mouth of three rivers in China’s Zhejiang Province.
The site was previously dominated by an unattractive concrete flood wall. Buck says the key to the project was finding a way to remove this wall without compromising flood protection.
“The flood wall just destroyed the natural ecosystem for the area,” he explains in the movie, which was filmed by Dezeen at World Architecture Festival in Singapore.
“What we wanted to do was replace it with a terraced embankment,” he says. “Through doing that we were able to reconnect people with the waterfront, but at the same time we were able to control the floods in a ecological way.”
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