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This project explores the relationship between trains, railways and their impact on climate change. Climate change has already had severe impacts on many areas in Eurasia, such as landslides and flooding, resulting in many railways that are now damaged beyond repair or entirely inaccessible.
The design principles focus on the coherence of the building within the whole, reducing damage to the original landscape, making extensive use of existing materials, retaining the original industrial buildings and creating new places for visitors, transforming it from a closed industrial area into a tourist attraction, providing a variety of experiences to the public.
The whole design is based on a ‘thread of sound’, from analysis to solution to creation, a thread that links the logic of the whole design.
The project aims to address the original problems of the site, bringing people into the park. By replanting the railway's unique ecological landscape and bringing people up close to it, the project attempts to bring to life the stories that are hidden in the railway gravel.
Programmatic masterplan with functional areas such as a noise-mitigating forest, bazaar, open-air cinema, and a man-made waterfall and a gravel garden.
Buffer woodland planting, the undulating terrain topography, greened noise barrier along the railway, and an artificial waterfall designed with a retained factory building provide noise mitigation strategies and a new natural soundscape.
The noise barrier is designed as a seed station, bringing colours of perennials and early colonisers. On the north side the wall is planted with three shade-loving climbing plants that flower in different seasons.
By dismantling the original factory shell, the internal structure is revealed. The filtered rainwater is pumped to higher ground to create an artificial waterfall, the noise of the train being masked by the sound of the water.