2018 IFLA Student Landscape Architecture Design Competition Awards UNIVERSITY CATEGORY
COTTON REVOLUTION A SUSTAINABLE AND SUCCESSIVE ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION BASE ON COTTON FIELD AND SALINE-ALKALI SOIL IN NUKUS, ARAL SEA AREA
Aral Sea, as the world’s fourth-largest lake. is located in the lagoon of the intersection of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in central Asia. As a result of the collective agricultural policy introduced by the Soviet Union, lead to sharp reduction of water, the city around the Aral Sea is facing severe ecological crisis, and the port city Mo`ynoq has almost lain waste. Nukus, the capital city, is facing the threat of desertification. These cities will face more problems in the future. In order to solve these problems, we choose Nukus to study and find out the key to this dilemma is the cotton fields that led to water resources shortage and economic disaster, which also bring depopulation and economic decline. Therefore, we focusing on the cotton fields and wasteland, classifying it by this current situation and relationship with adjacent cities. There be some construction plan about city, farmland, resources and nature base on that category. Therefore, several solution ways come out rely on different type and phase, by improving and constructing those land, to forming a stable and flexible system about city and nature, each system is connected and will play an important role in ecological restoration and urban renaissance. Through this system, we intend to find a feasible solution to the crisis in the Aral Sea.
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Qianru Zhong, Yixing Ouyang, Shuang Zhi, Miao Zou Beijing Forestry University