Osumi Island
This competition is based on a test site and is looking for ways of making places resilient. It is using design as a tool to search for best possible solutions of resilience in riverside conditions. It is also looking for ways of developing natural landscapes and defining ‘urban by nature’. Being a test site, it means that the findings of the process can be shared with many other similar context or sites that are at a flooding risk zone and lack features of being resilient. In this perspective, this exercise serves more than the city of Berat. The proposals might become an inspirational source for other sites in Albania or beyond its borders.
This competition is based on a test site and is looking for ways of making places resilient. It is using design as a tool to search for best possible solutions of resilience in riverside conditions. It is also looking for ways of developing natural landscapes and defining ‘urban by nature’. Being a test site, it means that the findings of the process can be shared with many other similar context or sites that are at a flooding risk zone and lack features of being resilient. In this perspective, this exercise serves more than the city of Berat. The proposals might become an inspirational source for other sites in Albania or beyond its borders.
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<strong>Osumi</strong> ISLAND<br />
Concept sketch<br />
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he costal spaces will be dedicated to pedestrian walkways, made of<br />
stabilized soils, and some urban furniture built in wood. A third line<br />
of protection for biodiversity is made of wood branches "fascines",<br />
(rough bundle of brushwood used for strengthening an earthen structure),<br />
making an efficient boundary between the men-accepted spaces and the<br />
respected and natural sanctuaries for wildlife. Between the islands and<br />
the land, establish an interlacing of footbridges flowing above the river<br />
floods and stone deposits and concealing the walkers' silhouettes. These<br />
suspended footbridges are designed as wooden ships, plant structures,<br />
bird nests, accompanying the intricacies of water and authorizing the<br />
promenade and in specific points, stopping in such and such confined<br />
places, protected, adorned with carved works rooted in soil. We enter<br />
into it through narrows passages, distributing "drop by drop" the limited<br />
responsiveness of the island.<br />
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Hazbiu Projekt + Siama + S’international + Soudant
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