Honorable Mention
2022 Skyscraper Competition
Wanjing Wang, Zhenhao Chen, Minghui Sang, Xiaoran Xiong, Kaifeng Fan
China
According to reporters, Dunhuang’s first and last green barrier against sand storms run by Dunhuang Yangguan forest farm, which once owned about 20000 acres of Forests belt, has encountered large-scale “shaved head” in recent ten years. The sweat of several generations of local people have wasted, and the ecological disaster of “green retreat, sand advance, desert pressing” reappears in Dunhuang.
All the protective forest lands cut down in the forest farm are used to plant grapes with high water consumption and frequent disturbance of the surface soil layer. At present, grape production has become the pillar industry of the forest farm. However, the problem is that after planting grapes, it will not only fail to prevent and fix sand but also may consume the scarce water resources and aggravate the risk of desertification.
So we come up with the consumption- how can we galvanize the local economy and achieve the betterment of people’s lives without aggravating sand storms and harming present forest barriers through the form of skyscrapers?
Economy
Build a wall with a light structure to block wind and sand and create a relatively optimum living environment for the shelter forest. Also, the wall can act as a residence for locals, and hotels for visitors with a series of commercial functions, such as industries, markets, and offices.
Forest Protection
Aside from acting as a shelter for the forest. The residents would apply the artificial intervention to foster make the soil richer, and simultaneously galvanize the plants to breed.
Environmental friendly institution
When the cultivation is appropriate, the buildings are gradually dismantled and rebuilt to form a new protective wall to protect larger scale of forests. Also, with the financial trees and the shelter plants extending their colonies, it’s possible for the land to bear more people, with appearing its expanding volume.
Environmental friendly institution
When the cultivation is appropriate, the buildings are gradually dismantled and rebuilt to form a new protective wall to protect larger scale of forests. Also, with the financial trees and the shelter plants extending their colonies, it’s possible for the land to bear more people, with appearing its expanding volume.
With the complete cultivation, the first building basically disappears, and the second one recirculates the whole metabolic process, at the end, approaches a saturated situation, and requires further movement for the forests’ growth and blocking sands and wind from the northeast direction.
