Balancing between the locals’ lifestyle and a place of progress and industrial advancement. Our design objective was to create a place of industrial tourism; the textile manufacturing plant generates more economics while the interwoven landscape foster and educate the values of nature to the locals, visitors and factory workers through combination of experiences and daily practice. The site used to be a brick manufacturing factory and was left half spoiled, large pits scattered all over the area and bare soil surface with minimal to no groundcover, inevitably prone to erosion during the rainy season.
In order to reintroduce nature back into the site, erosion preventive method through use of recycled material were applied in area of concern. The edge conditions were designed to handle and take advantage of water inundation for scenic opportunity and over the water agriculture. Integral is divided by zones and routes defined for different groups of users. Respecting to the natural features, paths and joking trails were laid out in a manner that follow the existing rocks and other topographical elements with minimal excavations.
Factory staff zone were organized for maximum benefit of the therapeutic natural scenery that changes with time of day and season. Visitors’ zone allows tourist to experience the practice of green living and the natural richness on site. An isolated island as a backdrop located in the middle of the lake is designed to be physically inaccessible by people as a symbol of an untouched sacred place of nature, a reminder for anyone who visit to cherish the purity of the nature and the absence of pollution.
The stand-alone island act as a habitat for water birds and other fauna in the area and as a specimen of “nature taking its course” for outsiders.