Project Brief

Keeping the fast rate of urban growth in mind this project was created to guide it in such a fashion that minimum amount of damage is posed to the existing natural environment and ecosystems.

The project treats land as a "living system" and developed an ecological infrastructure (EI) to guide and frame the urban sprawl.

Stimulation of Urban Sprawl of the Taizhou City based on Economic
and Development Oriented Model

Ecological Infrastructure (EI)

The EI is defined as the structural landscape network that is composed of the critical landscape elements and spatial patterns that are of strategic significance in safeguarding the integrity and identity of the natural and cultural landscape and securing sustainable ecosystem services,protecting cultural heritage and recreational experience. (www.asla.org)

Planning Regional EI

step 1

Three categories of processes are targeted to be safeguarded by the ecological infrastructure(EI):

The Abiotic Processes: the main focus is flood control and storm water management.

The Biotic Processes: native species and biodiversity conservation.

The Cultural Processes: including heritage protection and recreational need.

step 2

For each of the targeted processes discussed above "security patterns" were identified. The security patterns are composed of the elements and spatial positions that are strategically important in safeguarding the different processes of the landscape.

Three security levels- low, medium and high - are used to define the quality of the security patterns in safeguarding each of the targeted processes.

Schematic Approach taken towards developing Regional EI