Stormwater Park year place type
02
2022 Alrode, Johannesburg. South Africa Academic. Urban Planning
What if the energy of the power lines could create new landscapes and uses? The aim of the project is to update Alrode Industrial Park by reinterpreting the empty buffer zones created by power lines and electric substations as a new utilitarian and recreational space. Manufacturing operations of the industries, as it releases heavy metals and oily waste, have brought an apparently invisible problem that is poisoning the soil: storm water pollution. The difference of elevation in the terrain is used to propose a longitudinal Stormwater Park and sa water treatment plant that cleans the polluted water before entering the wetlands that surround the township of Tokhoza.
