AETER Architects shared with us their competition entry, titled Eco-Land, for the International Design Ideas Competition for Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point Passenger Terminal Building. Between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, the PTB (Passenger Terminal Building) is a transitional area interrupting the waterfront of the adjacent cities. The proposed PTB abandons its rights of the waterfront and becomes ‘in between’. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The new island is a high tech sponge that absorbs 2,000,000 m3 of pollutants every hour and transforms it to oxygen and just like a living organism, it has 2 sides. The outer side of the ‘sponge’ is designed to redevelop parts of the surrounding context, the original flora, currently extinct due to centuries of human disturbance. The existing vegetation is the secondary forest developed in the latter half of the twentieth century after the Second World War. The proposal focuses on the recreation of four zones of vegetation, based on the eco-physiognomy and the composition of species from the original plant communities of Hong Kong.
