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DESIGN STATEMENT

WATER CIRCLEー layered park and water cleaning systemー

One of the few crowded places during COVID-19 lockdowns is the park. We have identified the park as a place to enhance resilience.

The park had the power to contain activities during the pandemic,but in fact, people could not use the park satisfactorily. The main reasons are the lack of parks and the weather. Focusing on these two points, we consider widening the range of park use as resilience and designed a layered park.

Coronavirus has taught us many things. One of them is the difference between the current urban density, which emphasizes access to basic services such as water, housing, and hospitals, and the healthy density, which is determined by securing public health and public space. Therefore, we need parks, which are open space in the cities. In other words, future urban planning needs to focus on green spaces and water front spaces. By making the park three-dimensional, we aimed to create more efficient open space. Also, since the park is an external space, its use is restricted depending on the weather. Especially in Asia, the temperature is high and there are many rainy days throughout the year. Unlike ordinary parks, layered parks can prevent sunlight and rain.

Another one is lack of infrastructure. The population density of urban areas in Asia is extremely high compared to the rest of the world. Therefore, infectious diseases and the like spread quickly. In addition, because infrastructure facilities and urban services are concentrated in urban areas, some people will not be able to access their lifelines if the city is locked down. It is necessary to reduce the density of the city and change it to the density required to maintain health, but at the same time, it is necessary to reduce the disparities in urban services and increase infrastructure crisis.

This time, we combined the water cleaning function using the natural water cleaning system called the slow sand filter with the layered park. This will create a cool place by feature of water. And it enables the installation and distribution of infrastructure.

Water has three important roles under the COVID-19 pandemic: play tools, healing and life support. Combining these three roles with the layered park makes the process of water cleaning system visible and gives people the opportunity to interact with water. In the park next to the natural river, coming into contact with water using its water may make us consider environmental issues again.

Next, let’s talk about the design cord of this park. We use circle shape to make "new park". This shape makes it possible to see each person's facial expression and behavior while maintaining the distance between people. However, the circle is centripetal, we putted the columns around it and the tank in the center. This approach maintains a natural distance between people. And From the river to the land, we zoned the space for play, healing and living. We hope We hope that the creation of many such parks will allow all people to interact with the outside world at a healthy density, even in a variety of situations.