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Stormwater Park
year 2022 place Alrode, Johannesburg. South Africa type Academic. Urban Planning e aim of the project is to update Alrode Industrial Park by reinterpreting the empty bu er zones created by power lines and electric substations as a new utilitarian and recreational space.
What if the energy of the power lines could create new landscapes and uses?
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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. e di erence 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.
CURRENT SITUATION:
Pollutants enter the stormwater network contaminating the soil
PROPOSAL:
Updating of the existing stormwater pipeline, a stormwater treatment plant and rain gardens.
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