Eco-Path

-  Building the Eco-Path

Project defines strategies to restore the existing forest;  to preserve and regenerate the perennial landscape and strengthen the system of  functional vegetation for sun and snow season. Eco Path will be developed on the outward ring around the urban core area. A complete ecological restoration would be necessary to produce the forest and to offer a visual and climatic protection for the new built area:  a natural way of contention of urban growth.

A wetland trail will increase a natural progression and will link the urban area to the lagoon, changing  from a static to a dynamic landscape. The wetland line generates constant change all the time within the landscape. The production of smaller community orchards  creates meaning, conservation activities, and constantly changing  landscape that will give the area a strong identity. 

Landscape:

The landscape is based on two guidelines:

A. Restore and regenerate the forest.

B. Using the new wetland (rain gardens) it will connect the lagoon to a wet landscape, that is dynamic and will change over the summer and winter.

The main idea is to achieve  integration with the urban landscape and the first ring of the forest.

New community orchards regenerate the landscape and give identity to the place as well as maintaining a dynamic and productive landscape.

The wetland line creates a strong bio-diversity that help spread  grasses and reeds which follow the pedestrian path through the lagoon.