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WEAVING GREEN Virginia Wong
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Currently, Kennedy Town depends on a centralized drainage tunnel that captures stormwater runoff from mountains and the surface of the city. While it is very effective given the large capacity of the tunnel, as sea level rises, this solution becomes problematic when the system is clogged, overloaded with water, and potentially under-maintained maintenance. In addition, Kennedy Town lacks green public spaces. Therefore, how might we decentralize the current water system and treat water at a smaller scale from hill to bay while also providing habitable green spaces for people and plants? This proposed plan focuses on the waterfront area along Cadogan Street, in which the design continues extending the offset grid created by the interstitial spaces in the city and treats water three-di
the process. Water will be collected on top of buildings and at underground water collection points that will then get filtered on building green facades and feeds into our proposed elevated connectors from podiums to podiums.
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These partly enclosed, multi-level walkways are designed with green facade panels that help to treat water and trapping moisture along the way to the ocean and provide habitable spaces for people and plants.
Hong Kong West Drainage Tunnel
-mensionally. (For more information about the offset grid, please refer back to our group water framework). A network of elevated walkways is proposed to connect green patches within the city, to move people from hill to bay (or bay to the hill), and to treat water in
The goal of this design is to help decentralized current water systems in which water can be treated at a smaller scale, creating multi-level structures that connect green spaces and improving the human-nature relationships through this new way of experience landscape.
Proposed Plan