Winner of the 2023 WLA Awards – Editors Award
The polder of Jiangnan Region is a unique mode of farmland development created in local people’s long-term agricultural water treatment and farming management practices. Not constrained by sizes, shapes and contours, it constructs a healthy ecological space of water-green synergy by combining berms, waterways and sluice weirs. Instead of focusing on dredging and installing sluices, we explore an ecological logic based on the dynamic equilibrium between the polder’s two intrinsic functions, food production and stormwater and flood regulation. Meanwhile, the project perfects supplementary functions of ecosystem services, including runoff regulation, water purification, biodiversity protection, waterfront settlement and aesthetics, etc.
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