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SEIWOOO MANNISI ALBAN |
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Nessie Masterplanning for a SEIWOOO Creative Team Lead by Alban Mannisi :
Landscape Architecture, Urban planning +: 3D Model : Pierre Alex |
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Postulate VERTICAL TERRITORIALITY The growth of cities, their influences and the mask which they define on
the whole grounds must be reconsidered. Extending a city should be no longer at the expense of arable land. Economic
concerns that guide the new urban issues must be able to coincide with the Same concerns that have established practices for cultivation before the
development of cities. NESSIE project newly supplies the territory with oxygen thanks to the
built towers which take place at the heart of the history of the territory. The towers have an open-aired column in their centers
which allow oxygenation to go to the lower layer. Oxygenation, development of bacteria in these old asphyxiated strata, it
can regenerate a necessary ecosystem to the superficial layers where life and vegetation grow. Groundwater, regulations, redevelopment, their bacteriological
regulations in an autonomous way. And it can provide a healthy home to human activities, flora and fauna to immersed areas around the extension of
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Multiscalar A city extends in all directions. The landscape is composed and
discomposed of any materials. The growth ring of trees that gives an account of the past years is readable
also in the laid and covered layers forming the ground on which we walk and go forward. Its rottenness reflects our incomprehension of the territories.
Perforating the inferior layers such as the ground worms, the city then
comes to insufflate lives, and bacteria to an ecosystem in the abandonment.
Richness The marsh is much more than a pastoral visibility. It is one of the most
varied Ecosystem. Not going outside of the city but
being in the center of the identity of the country
is paramount. The ace crosses incomprehension, the negligence with the
rejection and the destruction of vital spaces come from their illegibility,
as well physical as intellectual.
Extracted from an
interview with Harold Zhou, resident at NESSIE, during the demolition of the
buildings of the district EAST of Quinpu Green
Water city, Interviewed by Chen Xiao , journalist at “CX: I don’t want to be wrong, your parents worked as you said, for
decades in the vast arable lands of Quingpu. Is
that right? HZ: Yes exactly. They still grow things there. Well they just take a walk
and look around…. They don’t have many things to do today. There is the
change. CX: If the new city of HZ: Definitely not. Well we discussed at that time. But look here. We
were lucky. Yes, we could have lost everything if I come to think what
happened elsewhere in a fast developing country like ours, as the city center can’t control all, or control badly because of the
fault of decentralization, you know. It was definitely different here. I’m not saying only that the
disappearance of the buildings that may disappear today is the rare mistake
but we were at the center of a new urban stake, I
believe. We heard a lot at that time of people talking about new structures,
a different philosophy. We were
impressed and let it happen. HZ : It makes me smile, but it’s better than the time when I was young. I’m
not talking about the life which changes of course, but in terms of environment,
there was more than a safeguarding. We talk about the prosperity between us.
You may say revitalization. The country could die at the time. Agriculture
strangled itself. It was bucolic of course. It is always so beautiful but
more that that, you live well here. The agricultural exploitation when I was young ?
A cemetery. They made us understand that the grounds were asphyxiated. The overproduction of garden vegetables completely spoiled the grounds to
which we put a lot of chemicals to make grow anything here. The water was
polluted by the concentrations of heavy minerals in the groundwater which we
drew to feed us. The agriculture, the nature is nothing pretty as soon as men
put the hands at it, you know. Men don’t create the nature. When they put their hands at it, they have
to continuously modify it. Currently it is a good transition. CX : Quinpu is an example in terms of urban
planning, but we don’t really measure the details what you talking about. HZ : Nevertheless, they didn’t do it in suitability. These gigantic worms
coming out of the marshes over there, at the central district, isn’t it
enormous enough ? I don’t even know if I find it
beautiful. Well, it’s my country. As we explained the creators. It is not more natural than a farm but it listens to the nature, so it
will become old with it and with us. We will adapt to each other. Well, it
lives well. It has always the look than it had because we maintain them. It is the
power of Quinpu GWC, the balance. It is like
cleaning a cattle she, it is not to make it beautiful. But if dirty, the
animals or the plants will get sick, and also those who consume them. So it
is very logical here. Gods know that I don’t believe in the logic but there
is something beyond me. The buildings we see, that go into the marsh make
alive the country at hundreds of kilometres. The building in glass you see
allowed all the flora, the water, the grounds, and
us to breathe again. Without putting anything, restoring the flows, making
breathe the layers of this country.
CX : But each building make live the country. They offer housing to those who
work this land. HZ : I’m not against the cities. Not more than for the countryside. The
distress, the alcoholism of the properties isolated in the misery of ruined
harvest or poor sale does not make me nostalgic. And the drug ruins the
beautiful districts as much. I wouldn’t say to put these elements side by side. In order words, the
verticality saved this country. It aired the layers successively piled up of
the grounds, which was destroyed to become washed. Before a cover was run on
the ground, we lived there, we breathed the benefits of these grounds until
exhaustion and then closed the lid when we couldn't draw any food from it and
put the buildings there and moved further the units of food production.
Always more offset. The marshes of Qingpu, you may not have liked
to spend the weekend there. Today, like a bit everywhere, the borders of the
city were broken. I don’t understand anything but anyway it has nothing to do with the
districts that I knew or I can see in other cities. Here, the verticality
gives the life. We don’t live under the ground, but we feel it, the land that make us
live. CX : A new dimension to some extent ? HZ : It is quite easy to understand in fact when you imagine a biosphere. You
think of a bubble, not the sheet on which you draw some mounds of lives. Extracted from an
interview with Harold Zhou, resident at NESSIE, during the demolition of the
buildings of the district EAST of Quinpu Green
Water city, Interviewed by Chen Xiao , journalist at
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