Consultancy Project: Rural & Coastal
Beixing Lakeside Subdivision, China
A 200 dwelling subdivision around two lakes outside Guanzhou in the Pearl River Delta intersects Chinese and western ideas of nature and urbanism. The Kiwi ideal of the subdivision as a single house and garden in a larger garden - the suburb itself - is destabilized by the agrarian urbanism of rural China. A fabric of low-rise dwelling units is networked across a productive landscape where pigs, ducks and chickens are farmed. Scenic features such as waterfalls and lakeside esplanades in turn disturb and complexify the worked landscape.
Oceana Gold Heritage and Art Park
How do we re-establish the connection with nature that is lost through the reductive procedures of resource extraction? The project investigated this query through a consideration of the pleasure garden as a kind of turbulence within the dissipative structure of an extractive landscape.
Rocks + cultural memory + paradox = Church garden
Ecosystem + cultural memory + open space = Memorial garden
Entropy + commerce + heritage = Archeological garden
