Mission Sustainability

This project comes from a Landscape Architecture University assignment looking at a 3.0m sea level rise to a valley floor over a time span of 100 years. Set on the Petone foreshore in Wellington, New Zealand. The design allows the sea water to inundate the land and take over the existing buildings - as this happens the buildings are deconstruced and the rubble from the buildings is pushed into existing road layouts forming ponds of salt water. Creating a positive resource out of a negative issue. The resource would fund the community economically. As the sea level continues to rise the salt industry will grow. The surrounding water tributaries once fresh would become estuarine over time and the ecology would adapt and change with this. The salt ponds would become a ritual experience for the local community with activities through and around them.