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To cater the issue of depleting water was to convert large, low-lying, vacant public land into a water catchment zone to recharge the groundwater table and create an eco-system for waterfowls all over the city.
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The project redesigns the central vista to a performative water landscape with three core strategies: storing, soaking, and building shared experiences around water systems.
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Design Development
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All the different strategies will make it a water-plus vista. It will bring comfort as well as recharge groundwater aquifers. It will also attract a range of species and create a place where people will want to come for different activities, and experience seasonally changing spaces throughout the year.
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View from the commercial building looking over the ‘soak’ zone of vista showing architectural inserts and grain of landscape.