IRIS OLIÉ

    Organized by IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architect), I could participate to the Student Design Charrette in August 2018 in Singapore. 

    I am proud and we were honored by the jury, which delivered us the first price of the IFLA Charette 2018. Beyond that, it was a great experience, that we could share, all together, to learn from each other.

    The theme for our group was «resilience». Wu Yitong (China), Lim Ming Wei (Malaysia) and Muhammad Faisal Ramadhan (Indonesia) and I, made during this four days exercice a propose for the area of Punggol, in the north of Singapore. We start to understand what is resilience first. Resilience is about the abilities to resist and grow again, after a choc. So, we tried to discover what are the stresses that the biodiversity could have in this area. We defined three different stresses:  

- the increase of demography, because open spaces disappear.

- the speed of urbanization, causes a lack of time for biodiversity adaptation.

- the modification of water flow, transform water’s habitats.

    We ask : when the city is growing fast, how does nature to catches up the pace of human activities? ourself

    Punggol is a strategic location to increase diversity and biodiversity in the city. Our propose was managing the space to let the biodiversity resist and evolve to this human transformation. 

    Our strategy was to conserving valuable patches of habitats, improving the ecological and social connectivity in the new urban development area, creating a buffer zone to enhance the connectivity and quality for wildlife, develop urban infrastructure with ecological connection design, recreating diverse waterscape to enhance the resilience of aquatic habitats and interweaving nature waterscape with urban environment.