Bridging the Edge
Jing Yi How Supervisors: Mark Raggatt & Tim Pyke
This project represents a new future for Docklands, where business as usual no longer works, either commercially or as a city building project. Through exploring a new relationship between development and waterfront within the complex urban spaces, focus on community life and finer grains, a diverse series of environments will reinvigorate the underused waterfront into a public focal point that consolidates the city’s sense of identity. By restoring the character of Docklands, wetlands will bring new qualities and create new wildlife corridors between the manmade and the natural. A system of active transportation loops act as spatial mediators between urban and ecological spaces and will lengthen and heighten the promenade and form a loop of activities that reconnect the city to Docklands, creating a comprehensive open space network. It is envisioned that these new interventions will act as catalysts in fostering a new sense of community and revitalizing the day-to-day life of the neighbourhood. It will serve to optimize the existing functions and events of the ethnic enclave and act as anchor points along the strip.
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