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- North Wales Ruins Regeneration Project
“The post-industrial landscape is a new kind of design that is engaged in an ongoing dialogue with the landscape of the past, present and future.”
Yoshi Silverstein
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Project Data
Type Landscape Planning
Location Cwmorthin Quarry, North Wales
Plot Area Around 2,000,000 m2
In 2021, the slate landscape in North Wales was nominated as a World Heritage site. Cwmorthin Quarry is one of the slate mining quarries booming in the 18th-century slate rush which was the home to many working-class families. This regeneration project is to promote the history of the North Wales slate industry while enhancing the heritage ruin’s value with nature.
Educational and informative (Past & Present)
Learn the background history behind the site and understand the current situation of the slate landscape in North Wales
Immersive experience (Past)
Vividly tell the historical story, show the lifestyle of slateworkers in the past, visitors can feel the past
Using ruins as a historical frame for a contemporary space. Transform it into a visitor centre that provides support and information for visitors. It will also feature a small multipurpose room for an indoor classroom or exhibition space.
Exploration and unusal experience (Future)
Future development and post-industrial landscape transformation - Preservation and enhanceing the value of the heritage landscape that fulfils both recreational and ecological needs.
Ruin Strategy
Ruins are sometimes the only remaining physical evidence of significant historical events, activities, phrases or ways of life. Also, some locals are proud of their industrial heritage. Nevertheless, the ruins are facing serval particular challenges that may destroy their value.
Therefore, making good heritage decisions requires careful consideration and the aim to create this strategy is to protect and enhance the value of the ruins with attentive consideration.
Understand the cultural significance of the place (Background)
•Historical value
•Social value
•Aesthetic value
•Recognising and listing
•Research value
Heritage Crime
Misuse/Misdirect
The Ruins facing problems
Understand all influencing factors (Future affect)
•Condition •Resources
•Knowledge
•Location/Setting
•Risks
•Legal requirements
Work through the four management approaches below
Natural Decay Climate Change
Coming alive again Simply maintain Letting nature take its course Decay
Involves actions designed to enable a place to be used again. A new compatible use or activity might be proposed to bring a place to life again
Some ruins are simply best left as ruins because of what they are, ruinous structures that reflect and evoke past times. Keeping a place as it is, stopping further deterioration but meanwhile ensuring the safety of the ruins.
Not all abandoned and ruined places will have sufficient heritage significance to warrant the protection. Sometimes it would be best to let nature develop its unique habitats by just doing a little care of them.
The opportunities for conservation may be limited. This may be due to particular circumstances or because the physical fabric of the ruins has deteriorated to the point where it cannot be conserved
05 Slope Dripline Irrigation System, Hong Kong
Project Data
Type Landscape Planning
Location Hong Kong
Plot Area Around 3000 m2
A private housing estate in Kung Tong, Hong Kong is in the construction process where the housing is next to a planting slope. After discussing with the landscape team, we decided dripline irrigation is the most suitable and efficient irrigation system for the planting slope. We started by collecting data and comparing different irrigation products to draw the AutoCAD irrigation system plan for the site.
Dripline Controller Valve Box
Dripline Controller Valve Box
Reponsible by me and my colleague
06 Vacant school Regeneration Project, Hong Kong
Project Data
Type Landscape Planning
Location Hong Kong
Plot Area Around 1000 m2
To encourage the use of vacant government sites in Hong Kong, the Development Bureau launched a $1 billion funding scheme to help successful NGOs pursue basic restoration works on vacant government sites to take forward worthy projects for the community. I have participated in this scheme which turns a vacant school premises into a guide dog training school. I have been involved in the Tree Preservation and Removal Proposal and the 3D rendering plan of the initial development stage.
TaKwuLingundertheFundingSchemetoSupporttheUseofVacantGovernmentDate:1February2021
SitesbyNon-governmentOrganizations
DateofTreeSurvey:18January2021
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