THE LAND IN THE LOOP
“The project challenges the anachronistic framework of natural conservation entrenched in human-nature dichotomies. The National Park, a neo-colonial framework for pristine nature conservation, not only generates friction on its border but also accelerates land deterioration in the rest of the territory.”
Vic Sheng-Ya Huang, 2021.
SYNOPSIS
The project challenges the anachronistic framework of natural conservation entrenched in human-nature dichotomies. The National Park, a neo-colonial framework for pristine nature conservation, not only generates friction on its border but also accelerates land deterioration in the rest of the territory.
By dismantling the National Parks and replacing them with ‘loops’: spatial strategies which redistribute the predominant conservation areas throughout the island and time. The Loop becomes a dynamic vector for disturbance, transformation, and re-inhabitation of the territory. It establishes new communities along its path and forges a symbiosis between its stewards and the environment. The proposal believes our ‘disturbance’ can create more and more 'nature' while establishing the democratic political framework, public engagement process, and partnership with the environmental expertise that facilitate our sustainable protection for enhancing the well-being of both human and nonhuman nature.
VIC SHENG-YA HUANG
Vic Sheng-ya Huang is a London-based architectural designer and researcher. Her work focuses on the urban public realm, and community-oriented, alternative frameworks for territorial transformation to thrive and remain agile against bureaucratic politics. ’Design’, to her, is an enabler of collective participation, and a medium to reshape relationships, such as between nature & society. Vic Sheng-ya has completed her Part I and Part II RIBA at the Architectural Association in 2021, and previously worked for BIG in London.