GATHERING FLOWS: A CONFLUENCE OF CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES 塑地城流: 文化与未來环境的融和

We are inspired by the mangrove as efficient architecture and productive landscape. With GATHERING FLOWS, we aim to partner with these existing natural ecology to build a new active and green public realm that regenerates the local urban environment and activates nearby communities through adaptive, flexible, and productive architectural and landscape strategies. Our design emerges at the intersection of varied urban networks and engages the flows that move through and across the site.

Mangrove wetlands are highly productive and bio-diverse ecosystems that thrive in the ebb and flow of their dynamic environments. Mangroves are the engineers that bring balance to their ecosystems by stabilizing soils, filtering sediments and pollutants, protecting upland habitats and connecting terrestrial fresh waters with marine waters.

Our proposal aims to foster a new culture of stewardship for the protection and understanding of coastal ecological resources and to facilitate improved connections between the city, nature, and the waterfront.

The final effect will be an iconic building that merges with its artificial topography, generating a space that allows a new perspective on the bay and its mangroves. GATHERING FLOWS is an urban mangrove; interconnected with its surrounding flows, rooted to its earthen substrates, and allowing a rich cultural ecosystem to thrive within its structures and among its canopy.

设计受红树林所启发，作为一个节能建筑及繁盛的景观。通过塑地城流方案，我们旨在利用已有的自然生态来建构一个创新的绿色公共领域。此适应性强，灵活且富社会效益的设计，能激活当地城市环境，及附近的社区。

我们的设计从交错的城市网络中浮现，与各路纵横的轴线交流互动。 红树林湿地适应潮水涨落的动态环境，是一种生境营造力高，生物多样性非常丰富的生态系统。红树林是此生态系统中的工程师，它稳固土壤、过滤沉积物和污染物质，保护上游栖息地以及连接陆上淡水和海水来平衡整个生态系统。

我们的方案旨在培育一种新的环境管理文化来保护及理解海岸生态系统，以加强城市、自然和滨水景观之间的联系。 设计的最终效果，将会是一座融合人工地形的标志性构筑物，提供一个眺望海湾和红树林的新视点。塑地城流是为城市中的一片红树林，以场地为基层，根部往外扩展至外围交通流线，相互连接。丰富多样的文化生态得以在其结构上和屋檐下繁衍。