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Ecological Rehabilitation Park

Part 2 Project 2019
Muditha Senanayaka
University of Moratuwa | Sri Lanka
Engagement of man to nature has created chaotic consequences to this universal symmetry of equilibrium and thus, sustainability. A Sri Lankan example of such activity occurs in natural resource mining areas - particularly, the “Dediyawala, Kalutara Blue Ball Clay Mine”. The environmental crises have now begun to affect the dependent and surrounding community, as the Clay deposit has now come to its last stages of existence. A need of rehabilitation of the environment and the community is paramount.

The “Ecological Rehabilitation Park” is generated based on this background for a successful sustainable future.

Biomimicry is one of the best design approaches, which tries to mimic the sustainable systems in the natural environment. However, it has been rarely applied in large-scale developments. This project attempts to use it from macro level to micro level applications - as the primary conceptual generator.

The proposed design approaches through three interconnected stages named as Immediate, Transitional and Eventual stage for a chronological development. Each stages address different issues identified in the linear process of ball clay mining as well as its community to bring them together into a coherent, unified process that enables innovative, sensitive and flexible solutions while enhancing all aspects of sustainability.


Tutor(s)
Archt. N. Perera
Dr. Gamini Weerasinhe
2019
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