T h e A r t o f InfrastructureLiquid Urbanism

AO

If there is magic on this planet, it is

contained in water...

Its substance reaches everywhere;

it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and

wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume

forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single

shining bone cast up by the sea.

Loren Eisley

3

Maximizing edge

surface

area increases

opportunity for

exchange.

learning from

ecology

Reclaimed Ecologies

Shunde New City

Cultural Connection to

water.

the fundamental landscape element of the site is

the river, and its affect upon urban pattern.

the idea of water or canal is rooted in the history of the place

and has influenced the growth of their respective locations since their

inception.

emulating the art of ecology is less about imitating

her physical beauty, but more about learning from her processes.

Waterways, Land Use, and

Filtration

Old Jining

New Jining

Horizon, Paris