PORTFOLIO FOR MLA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

PORTFOLIO [ Chenxi Wang ] Selected Works 2018-2022 For the application to MLA at the University of Edinburgh

[ Chenxi Wang ] Phone: +(86) 17835460320 E-mail: wcx1304382116@gmail.com Address: No. 50, Chengdong Road, Taihang East Street, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, China 046000

[ Education ] Southeast University, Nanjing, China,Sept. 2018 - Jun. 2023 Bachelor of Engineering in Landscape Architecture GPA: 3.75/4.0

[ Work Experience ] Internship

Aug. 2022 - Oct.2022

- Shanxi No.3 Building Engineering Company Changzhi Branch Architectural Design Institute; - responsible for architecture construction drawings and facade design for a hospital construction project;

[ Professional Experience ] 2022 Imperial-RCA Design for Global Challenges Online Summer School

Jul. 2022 - Aug. 2022

- Most Innovative Design Award; - an A-Distinction for the individual; - finished a two-week online course; carried out group service design around Climate Change and completed a final presentation;

Research Program, Southeast University

Nov. 2020 – Nov. 2021

- “Application of Dynamic Fitting of Digital 3D Model in the Study of Stacked Mountain Technique “; - team leader; - through the dynamic fitting of three-dimensional digital models, taking "Pu" Garden rockwork as the research object, using the parameters in the image correspondence to generate three-dimensional information, combined with an interview with the rockery craftsman Fang Hui, to a certain degree of visual interpretation of the stacking technique reflected in the rockery; - written paper “Application of Dynamic Fitting of Digital 3D Model in the Study of Stacked Mountain Technique -- Take Kunshan "Puyuan" rockery as an example”;

Ancient Buildings Measurement surveys, Southeast University

Jul. 2021 - Oct.2021

- team member - did fieldwork and measurement for the traditional landscape architecture in Lu Garden, did online measurement surveys for Master of Nets Garden; - 3D model, detailed plans, sections and facades of the buildings and classical gardens, video;

Volunteer Experience

- 2021 Jiangsu Red Cross Registered volunteer - Teacher role in school-related subjects (art, English, science) in Xuanwu Community Service

[ Skills ] 3D Modelling: Sketchup / Rhino / Grasshopper / Blender 2D: AutoCAD / Adobe Photoshop / Adobe Illustrator / Adobe InDesign Analysis: ArcGIS Rendering: Lumion / Enscape

Oct. 2021

[ MOTIVATION LETTER ] "Why this major?"

"Why persist and love ?"

"What kind of landscape architect I'd like to be?"

These are the questions I'm constantly looking for answers to, and the reason I choose the University of Edinburgh.

Born in a small town in Shanxi Province, the largest coal-producing province in China, my daily life seems filled with the billowing smoke from the chemical plants and the smoky haze shrouding the sky. Facing the scarred land under my feet, I think landscape design is the best solution to restore the ecological environment and build a livable city. This is my original intention in choosing Landscape Architecture as my major.

During my five years of undergraduate study at Southeast University, its rigorous and practical landscape teaching system has taught me how to be a down-to-earth problem solver in landscape design. In my fourth year of undergraduate study, I participated in landscape planning projects for ecological restoration. This topic triggered my rethinking of the ecological issues in my hometown and finally derived into my academic interest in Ecological Landscape. Landscape architecture is a powerful weapon in both the broken ecological environment and the built environment of cities, which I learned through this experience. The purpose of green spaces should not be only to beautify urban spaces, but also to restore or improve the ecological environment. By using expertise and technology, a landscape architect can gently balance urban construction and the ecological environment in a wide range of sociocultural and socioeconomic contexts.

Each quarter of TU Delft's landscape teaching is developed with a design course and a supporting theory course, emphasizing the continuity of design theory, design process and design results. Such a teaching mode enables me to form a rigorous design thinking and research thinking, forming a transition with my undergraduate practical landscape teaching system. At the same time, TU Delft's landscape teaching is closely integrated with geography, focusing on multiscale ecological and energy issues. This can provide me with the possibility to conduct in-depth research on academic interests in ecological issues. With my career goal of becoming a landscape architect I hope to have the opportunity to work in a landscape architecture practice like Grant Associates that creates ecological designs. So, I think studying Master of Landscape Architecture at Delft University of Technology is the best choice for me.

[ CONTENTS ] 01 / HEALING EARTH SCARS

A mine park design based on GIS analysis 02 - 13

02 / INVERTED PYRAMIDS

A digital deisgn for a community that makes a living from e-waste 14 - 27

03 / IDENTITY REGENERATION OF THE ANCIENT GARDEN A piazza that can carry large-scale activities and daily leisure needs 28 - 37

04 / WEAVING RIVERS

A resilient landscape design oriented by flood adaptability 38-49

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01 Healing Earth Scars Mine park design based on GIS analysis Acadamic Work Jijiagou Village, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China Individual Work Tutor: Pang Li April 2020 The site locates near Jijiagou Village in Xishan District, Wanbailin District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, covering an area of 396hm2. The ecological problems caused by coal mine goaf in this area are the most prominent. In the regional context of the resource-based regions in Shanxi Province, affected by China's policy of vigorously developing ecological civilization, the Xishan area is facing the need for environmental restoration and scenic spot construction. With people's pursuit of quality of life, suburban parks with a good environment have gradually become the places of leisure and enter tainment that people yearn for.

Due to the site's large-scale geographical scope and complex mountainous terrain, to achieve ecological restoration, activation of regional tourism resources, and objective and reasonable regional landscape transformation, this project adopts the GIS to analyze this site. After analyzing the slope, elevation, aspect, and land use of the restricted terrain, it is more reasonable to decide on the landscape reconstruction process of the abandoned coal mine land.

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Coal export /Coal import proportion /Coal production and reserves in China Chinese coal mainly exports to Asian countries such as Japan and Korea.

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The source countries of China's coal imports mainly include Indonesia, Australia, Russia, Mongolia, etc.

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Regarding the distribution and reserves of coal resources, China's regional distribution is highly uneven, mainly distributed in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Shanxi.

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Coal exports to China showed an decreasing trend from 2019 to 2020

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China's oil and natural gas resources are relatively insufficient, with proven oil recoverable reserves accounting for only 2.4% of the world's total and natural gas accounting for 1.2%. In comparison, coal accounts for about 14%. Such resource conditions determine that China's energy structure dominates by coal.

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The development process of Shanxi coal industry 1980-1998

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The Asian Financial Crisis The three-year Great Leap Forward

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The Cultural Revolution

The National Mine Ecological Environment Restoration and Governance Site Meeting

The reform and opening-up policy

The foun -dation of New China After 1970, the level of coal mining mechanization in Shanxi improved, and coal production increased.

In 1998, Shanxi adjusted the coal production and transportation order and closed unreasonable coal mines.

After 2000, Shanxi carried out the integration of coal mine resources, and coal production gradually recovered.

"Shanxi Provincial Mine Environmental Governance and Restoration Fund Management Measures" forms a solid institutional constraint on the performance of mining rights holders on the obligation of mine ecological restoration.

Landscape Planning of Shanxi abandoned mines 2022

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The restoration will carry out in stages.

According to the destruction of It expects the green space construction abandoned mines in Shanxi, the areas of mines with less ecologi cal damage that need water restoration and and the fundamental ecological landform landscape reconstruction will restoration will be completed by 2040. be defined in 2040.

Green Space System &Tourism Linkage Through the landscape construction of abandoned mines, it is expected that in 2040, the mine parks will link the eco-tourism resources with the surrounding parks to form an ecotourism network system.

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According to the GIS analysis results, the four more representative sites in the site were selected as samples. These four samples adopted different design strategies.

Sample 1 has excellent construction suitability, and the ecological sensitivity is extremely low.

Sample 2 has a high overall value, high construction suitability, and low ecological sensitivity.

Sample 3 has higher construction suitability and higher ecological sensitivity.

Sample 4 has extremely low construction suitability and high ecological sensitivity.

Design Strategies Strategy1 Coal Mine Museum Gangue Backfill Backfilling and subgrade materials enable the bulk consumption of gangue with low pollutant content, reducing the cost of construction of roadbeds, foundations, or dam foundations and reducing the land occupied.

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Strategy3 Artificial Wetland Park Gangue Acid Wastewater Treatment Gangue can produce acidic wastewater, which causes soil, surface water, and groundwater pollution and seriously affects plant growth. Alkaline materials such as fly ash can be sown to neutralize with acidic substances in gangue, followed by the construction of wetlands.

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Ecological Restoration of Gangue Mountains For gangue that cannot be comprehensively utilized, ecological restoration is required. Gangue mountain has a significant slope area; due to the poor engineering stability, ecological planting blanket technology can be used to enhance strength and use plant configuration to fix the soil further. Then gangue mountains can carry out a certain degree of engineering construction.

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Threshold Places A Feature Entry Area B Waterfront Square C Man-made Wetland Park D Colliery Museum E Mine Exploration Park F Trestle and lookout G Land art H Tree House Water & plants Water Area Hard Paved Foors Forest Wetland Plants Pit Area Entrance

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Wetland Ecological Park Area The wetland shall be constructed using Design Strategy 3 for the subsided land resulting from coal-mine with high ecological sensitivity in the site to solve the problem of water pollution caused by coal mining. The coal gangue is backfilled as soil, nourishing the growth of plants during the long natural succession. The artificial wetland park can also bring tourists a relaxed and pleasant tour experience.

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Mine Pit

Ceratophyllum demersum L.

Trapa bispinosa Roxb.

Nymphaea tetragona

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Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco

Portulaca oleracea L.

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Pinus bungeana Zucc.

Robinia pseudoacacia L.

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Myriophyllum verticillatum L.

Wetland Plant Configuration The collapse area is close to the ponding revetment, and the ability to resist waterlogging and pollution should be considered when selecting the varieties of trees. Aquatic plants with high purification capacity are planted in shallow water areas to improve the quality of water areas.

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Taxodium distichum var. imbricatum (Nuttall) Croom

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Mine Theme Park Area The theme park area of the mining area is built at the mine pit and coal gangue hill in the original site. The coal gangue is reused through the coal gangue utilization method proposed in Design Strategy 1 and Design Strategy 2. The mine pit style is presented to show the place's memory to visitors.

Mine Plant Configuration

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Plants should choose plant varieties with tolerance to a wide range of pH values and drought and barren to improve the soil humidity and temperature conditions, establish the nutrient cycle between plants and soil, and ensure the success of the plant replantation strategy.

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HIGH ACTIVITY DENSITY Slum & Poors

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Contamination Monitoring

Government E-waste Recycling Contamination Remediation 14

02 Inverted pyramids A digital deisgn for a community that makes a living from e-waste Acadamic Work Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana Individual Work Tutor: Minzhi Lin; Jieping Chen October 2021 The site is controversial in the capital of Accra, Ghana; this used to be a lagoon where mangroves grew and is now a huge source of pollution. It is called "Agbogbloshie". Locals also nicknamed it "Sodom and Gomorrah," two cities condemned in the Bible. However, the poor living here believes this is a dignified land providing housing and job opportunities. Despite improper burning and dismantling, it has created devastating environmental and health problems for the entire capital.

The dumping of e-waste brings them many discarded precious metals, which means a considerable income.

I n 2021, t h e G h a n a i a n go v e r n m e n t i n c o r p o r a te d i t i n t o i t s u t o p i a n u r b a n p l a n n i n g , using it as part of the land for the construction of medical facilities, pulling out the slums on the site, and relocating the dumping site, which not only fails to f u n d a m e n t a l l y s o l v e t h e p o l l u t i o n b u t c o m p l e t e l y d e f e a t t h e d i g n i t y o f t h e p o o r.

Based on site characteristics and unavoidable waste dumping, I use phytomining and automation to amplify its site characteristics as an e-waste disposal site and make the e-waste industry harmless while retaining its employment opportunities. At the same time, to ensure the living problem of the poor while using phytomining for soil remediation, the slum is lifted vertically in the form of a giant landscape structure, forming a utopian living form that places the poor on the upper layer. It is an ironic project that celebrates the impartiality of the landscape.

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Ghana

The US 6.3/19.4

Germany 1.9/22.8 France 1.4/21.3 The US 6.3/19.4

Japan 2.1/16.9

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Korea India 2.0/1.5

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Brazil 1.5/7.4 E-waste exported to other countries E-waste exported to Ghana E-waste importing countries E-waste exporting countries

Ghana 2.5 Million Metric Tonnes Australia

Soil Pollution PM 2.5 > 150 μg/m³ 10 times higher than The maximum limit (WHO): 15μg/m³ Mortality Rate: 80/100,000 >28,000 people/year

Slum: Old Fadam Population: 40,0 Most residents w High Residential

Pollution End Soil Pollution Daily Income: GH¢2 ( ＄0.35) ~ GH¢200 ( ＄35) Population Structure: Young Men & Children 80% of the children have dangerous levels of lead in their blood.

E-waste Burning Main cause of Air Pollution in Accra Central

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Agbogbloshie Agbogbloshie is situated on the banks of the Korle Lagoon, northwest of Accra's Central Business District.

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Dumping Site Market Old Fadama

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Market Onion Market: 207m from the dumping site Tomato Market: 446m from the dumping site Largest Food Market in the Accra Central

Water Pollution the Basel Ac tion Net work found dangerous levels of dioxins and PCBS in chicken eggs at Agbogbloshie.

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TECHNOLOGY Auhmented Reality Energy Efficient Robotics WORK Device disassembly Device shredding Sorting into e-waste fractions Grinding into bulk powder

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SITE ANALYSIS

Traffic hub Purification center Pollution center Mangrove center Residential center 2ND CLASS ROADS

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"What people in the city need now is an urban public space where they can rest and a square where they can exhibit and dance."

"In the vicissitudes of life, only the mottled brick walls have remained over time, recording the glory and decline of the Gonzaga family. " 28

03 Identity Regeneration of the Ancient Garden A piazza that can carry large-scale activities and daily leisure needs MIRC 2022 | Guastalla Design competition for the Ancient Garden of the Ducal Palace Guastalla, Reggio Emilia Province, Emilia Romagna, Italy Individual Academic Work Tutor: Kai Gu August 2022 The site locates in the historical center of Guastalla, between the Guastalla Medical Center and the Ducal Palace. After experiencing the Medieval, Renaissance, and Industrial Times, this site serves the urban residents together with the Ducal Palace as a public urban space. Compared with the two squares, Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini and Piazza I Maggio, near the site, the site has the largest area and can carry a large number of people. It is most likely to meet the needs of large-scale activities often held in Guastalla.

TTherefore, the design positioning of the project is "an urban public space that can meet the needs of large-scale activities and daily recreation." The project faces two main problems. One is how to carry out large-scale activities while meeting the needs of daily use; the other is how to remind visitors of the profound historical context of the site while serving as a public space in the city.

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Location Guastalla

The site locates in Guastalla, Reggio Emilia Province, Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. It locates in the town's historical center, between the historical building Ducal Palace and Guastalla Medical Center.

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Medical Center Piazza I Maggio

Design Goal After experiencing the Medieval, Renaissance, and Industrial Times, this site is now used as public land. It has the potential to carry a large number of people and large-scale activities. The goal is "to create an urban public space that can meet the needs of large-scale activities and daily recreation."

A. Urban origin The building complex built around the Machini square became the beginning of the layout and development of Guastalla city.

F. Problems of Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini

Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini has shown its insufficient carrying capacity as the public space currently carrying large-scale activities.

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2 1 The Gnoccata 2 The fearless of Emilia 3 Lost plants and animals

B. Style&Function Change of this site 1587_The garden of the Ducal Palace in Baroque style 1896-1908_Industrial land for seasoning timber in industrial style 1990s-now_Green city square in public features

After the restoration, the murals covering each other were presented, which showed the layered history of the Duke's estate.

D. Problems of Piazza I Maggio There is little infrastructure, and the piazza is hard to host significant events.

C. Style&Function Change of Ducal Palace

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Art Nouveau

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Gonzaga's residence

Ducal Palace

Company's office

City Museum

City Museum Exhibition

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Element extraction

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Regular arrangement

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A new aspect of the Ducal Palace

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Transportation

Transportation Expansion direction

Sight direction Traffic direction Movable devices

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02 Meeting space for expansion

wall

wall

Explaination Because the site has experienced changes in style and function, the ancient brick wall texture of the building outer skin and ancient wall remains on the site is selected to show the historical contex t of the site strata, and the texture is abstractly interpreted again with modern materials.

Mottled brick wall

Linear&planar elements

Explaination The design strategy mainly solves four major problems faced by the site: In the limited space, we should expand the depth of the space visually and increase the viewing angle of the Ducal Palace.

03 Multi-functional traffic space

Transportation&sustainability

Improve it s crowd - carr ying capacit y as public land for large-scale activities, market exhibitions, and festivals, maximize the available hard land area, and set up as many infrastructure facilities as possible to meet daily use.

To integrate the local culture of Guastalla, enhance the site's sustainability as much as possible, and increase the area of the soft underlying surface and plant planting.

According to the current situation, people shall treat the ancient brick walls left on the site differently.

06 Movable devices

To offer more available hard area

Recreation

Recreation

Transportation

Transportation

Bench

03 Fixed recreation space

Hint of spatial direction

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Plan N

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5

10

20

Meter

D

A

Guastalla A new place to visit

Here we have...

A D r yl a n d fo u nta i n f o r y o u r

children to have some fun during weekends & Mirror pool to offer a new aspect for you to admire the Ducal palace B Concentrated area for largescale activities in Guastalla C Recreation space to offer you a place to relax outside

D Interactive devices offer a way for visitors to use this piazza and have accessible communication freely.

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B

C

Material The structure of the device is iron, with wooden louvers on the top and PVC waterproof strips on both ends of the blade.

Plant Arrangement

Usage Keep proper conversation distance.

White Crape Myrtle

Used as audience seat.

Alpine Aster Isometric Drawing of the movable device

Use it on sunny days

Adjust the shutter to control the sun exposure.

Use it on rainy days

Close the shutter to take shelter from rain.

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Material Embossed Concrete Concrete Almm

Marble

Italian Red Brick

Broken Red Brick

Tile

Grass

What you can do

"You can freely walk in this space with directional hints."

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"You can have a private conversation with your friends on the benches between Italian cypresses."

"You can spend your spare time and enjoy the tree shade of Common Lindens ."

Material

Concrete Almm

Marble

Italian Red Brick

Broken Red Brick

Tile

Brick

What you can do

"You visit Ducal Palace and spend your leisure time chatting with friends here"

"You can also attend the Week Market activities held every week and the famous italian festival 'Lost Animals and Plants' held annually in Gustalla. "

"You can take your children here to have some fun"

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Current river courses & Reservoir

Current flood divection

Current flood divection

Original flood divection

Flood area

Original flood divection

Original river courses

Agricultural losses Safety loss of life and property

Loss of biodiversity

Floodplain

Benounka River

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Vltava River

04 Weaving rivers A resilient landscape design oriented by flood adaptability Acadamic Work Prague, The Czech Republic Individual Work Tutor: Pang Li December 2022 The project is located in the floodplain at the confluence of the Vltava River and Benounka River on the outskirts of Prague. Since the floodplain is located upstream of the Vltava river flowing through Prague, it is of great locational significance for preventing or delaying floodwaters from entering the center of Prague.

Due to the wrong river management in recent years, the historical river course has been artificially filled or shortened and straightened. Although the historic confluence of the Benounka river and Vltava river and other historic waterways are still visible and forced to be used during floods, they still cannot regulate or slow down the surge of river flow during heavy rains in any way.

The planning goal of this project is to realize the resilience of the landscape, and the design strategies of flood resilience, economic resilience, and biodiversity resilience were put forward, and then the flood-adaptive design of suburban parks was carried out. Through diverse water landscape designs, the Vltava river and Benounka river were woven together to relieve the pressure of floods on a single waterway.

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Site Analysis The floodplain at the confluence of the Benounka and Vltava rivers is the most significantly affected by flooding in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. It is located in the upper reaches of the Vltava River that flows through Prague. The ecological regulation capacity and climate adaptability of this area are of great significance for improving urban resilience and strengthening the construction of Prague's flood control system.

Letňany Forest Park

Prague 1 Duby letní na Pavím vrchu

Vrchlického sady

Gopnicky Park

Riegrovy sady Gopnicky Park

Prokopské Valley

y ca

Central Park Pankrác Park at Chodov Fortress Branické skály

Nature Park Hostivař-Záběhlice

21 m

in b

Řepora - bývalá těžebna cihlářských hlín

r

Makchu pichu

Prague 16

8500 inhabitants

Geopark Spořilov

Cholupická bažantnic Central Park

Modřanská rokle

Zvolská homole

Ohrobecké údolí

Legend Q5 Flood Area 2013 Flood Area Q100 Flood Area Benounka & Vltava Floodplain

Floods on Vltava river in Prague (1870-2013)

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City Park

Flood Frequency in Central Europe 1990s-2022

River flood risk & Flood Frequency in Czech Republic 1990s-2022

High

ce

Medium

Low

List of floods in Europe involving the Czech Republic

Year

Details

Countries

Austria, Czech Republic, 2021 2021 European Croatia, Germany, Luxembourg, floods Netherlands, Switzerland, UK Project Site Flood Wall River Agriculture Area Nature Preserve

243

Heavy rain

20

Heavy rain

2014 2021 European Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, floods Serbia, Romania

86

Heavy rain

Germany, Czech Republic, 2021 European 2013 Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, floods Belarus, Poland, Hungary

25

Heavy rain

2016

Level Q100 Dangerous 5 15 25 35

Frequency

Fatalities Causes

2021 European floods

2021 European floods

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Moldova, Romania

Poland, Hungary

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Heavy rain

2021 European 2009 floods

Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey

33

Heavy rain

2006 2021 European floods

Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary

0

Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Croatia

Poorly construct -ed dikes

310

Heavy rain

2010

2002

2021 European floods

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Problem Analysis

The floodplain Çernošice, an excellent oppo the developm

Flood risk

Insuffient flood-adaptive facilities Artificial flood control facilities that weaken the river's f lood discharge capacity

Construction of multi-level road system

Activities and temporary installation heavily dependent on the transportation system

Ave

Landscape infrastructure construction

Insufficient landscape infrastructure such as seats that can not meet the needs of high-density crowds

Addition of sports facilities

Inseffitcent sports facilities construction that does not match sports demand

Diversified habitat construction

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Černoš

7,925 inhab Average age 38.

n area spans five Prague city districts and a Central Bohemian town, nd covers an area of approximately 1300 hectares. This presents an ortunity for the development of recreational, sustainable farming and ment of valuable river views.

Lahovice

836 inhabitants Average age 39.2 years old

Radotín

14,234 inhabitants erage age 39.2 years old

šice

bitants .8 years old

Modřany 12,334 inhabitants Average age 39.2 years old

Legend Settlement Water Body Agriculture Bare Land /Brownfield Buildings Q5 Flood Area Q20 Flood Area Q50 Flood Area Q100 Flood Area Floodplain Area

Lipence

3,564 inhabitants Average age 40.5 years old

Zbraslav

12,693 inhabitants Average age 39.2 years old

Cycling Road Railway Design Area & Area of Interest City Districts Road Railway Station 43

Landscape Economic Resilience

Flood R

Eco-tourism

Sustainable Industry

Recreation

Sports

Transportation

Bench

Kayaking

Roadway

Picnic

Golf

Waterway

Fly Kite

Sport Fishing

Cycling Track

Walk Dog

Table Tennis

Sidewalk

Flood Drainage

Fishery

Sustainable Agriculture

Fishponds

Food Forest

Revert the watercourses to curves

Reuse historic waterways

Historical Watercourse

Store & Flo

Ecological Water Landscape

Agriculture Landscape

City Park Landscape

City Park Landscape Bird-watching walking route

Boatin

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1

Waterfront plank road

5 Boating park

9

13

Shrubbery

2

Wedding building

6 Wetland plank road

10 Sports park

14

Golf course

3

Flower field

7 City park

11 Kiting & picnic lawn

15

Kayaking club

4

Yoga park

8 Dry fountain

12 Natural lawn

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Lake for kayak

Benounka & Vltava river

e Resilience

Resilience

Ecological Resilience

Flood Storage

Construct wetlands

& Purify ood

Flood Control

Build ecological berms

Flood Adaptation

Reuse rainwater

Ecosystem Diversity

Habitat Diversity

Biodiversity

Plant

Replace Flood Wall

Irrigation

Permeable Paving Surface

Forest

Grassland

Wetland

Fields

Creek

Fishponds

Hydrophyte

Aquatic Animal

Macrophyte

Bird

Terrestrial Plant

Amphibian

Hanada wedding route Sports route

ng route

king

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Residential area

21 Bird watching tower

18 Biological observation wetland park

22 Parking lot

19 Forest park

23 Agriculture picking park

20

Wetland park

24 Fish pond

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Sectional Perspective

of Ecological Water Landscape

Bird Watching

Biodiversity

Arbor Shrub Herb

Flood Tolerance Q100 Q5 Normal Level

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Forest

Tourist Boating & Fish Observing

Populus Salix Ulmus Metasequoia glyptostroboides tomentosa Carr babylonica L. pumila L. Hu & W. C. Cheng Forsythia Lagerstroemia Hibiscus Gardenia viridissima Lindl. indica L. syriacus Linn. jasminoides Ellis Iris tectorum Ophiopogon japonicus Medicago Cyperaceae Maxim.

(Linn. f.) Ker-Gawl. sativa L.

Forest

Wetland

Wetland

Emergent Plants

N

Floating Plants

Le

Submerged Plants

M ve

Nelumbo sp.

emna minor L.

Myriophyllum erticillatum L.

Amphibians Observing

Scirpus Lythrum Canna indica L. validus Vahl salicaria L. Potamogeton Eichhornia crassipes distinctus A.Benn.

(Mart.) Solms Hydrilla verticillata (Linn. f.) Royle

Ceratophyllum demersum L.

Waterfowl Observing

Bird Amphibian

Vallisneria natans (Lour.) Hara

Insect

Snow goose Pool frog Parnassius apollo

Green-winged teal Carpathian Green Toad Newt Purple Emperor Butterfly Mute swan

Wetland

Forest

Wetland

River

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Sectional Perspective

of Agriculture Landscape

Cycling

Picking

Picking activity intensity & Rotation period Rape

Apple

Sunflower seed

Pear

Corn

Prunus domestica

Onion

Peach

Carrot

Currant

Cabbage

Cherry Jan

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Feb

Mar

Apr

May

June

July

Aug

Sept

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Field

Feb

Mar

Apr

Fishing

Picking activity intensity & Rotation period When there is a flood, the fish pond can be used as a flood storage tank to slow down the damage to the farmland caused by the flood.

Q100 Q50 Q5 Normal Level May

June

July

Aug

Sept

Oct

Nov

Dec

Meadow

Fish Ponds

Meadow

River

Forest

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