paju book city sketch project

20/10/2011

On the eastern edge of the site, on the lower boundary of the mountain, there is a wetland area where a type of giant water lilly are grown. The growth of these plants is agricultural on scale. The area is at a lower height than the rice paddies beyond and is fed by a deep irrigation channel around 3 metres below road level. The houses that sit on the edge look as though they are on islands in the landscape. This infrastructure reminds me of soswaewon. Where the dry stone wall props up the earth above the river, creating a platform for the lower pavilion, the concrete irrigation channel here does the same. creating a platform for habitation above the wetlands.

the water lilly field

19/10/2011

This is a study of the periphery of the landscape. Where the edge of the agricultural landscape meets paju book city, and where it meets the han river. The series of sections illustrate the use of irrigation within the cultivated landscape. The use of a pumping station and irrigation channels keep the level of moisture at an optimum for the rice paddies. 

the edge condition between city, cultivation and river

section A-A: a view through the pumping station and the highway

section B-B: a view between river and cultivation

The level of the water is below that of the rice paddies. This is to control the moisture level within the rice fields. The pumping station draws water from the river up to the higher level irrigation channel, this runs along the periphery of the site. It feeds the horizontal channels that form the field boundaries.

section C-C: a view of cultivation and irrigation

Irrigation junction

cultivated strips above the irrigation channels

raised polytunnels above the paddies

 13/10/2011

1:2000 site section

12/10/2011

What follows is a series of sketch studies from paju city phase III. The first set document the view down from the mountain ridge looking down from the eastern peninsula of the site. The view is towards the river, to the distant mountains and the cities of Gimpo and Yangchon-meong.

The second series of sketches illustrate the site from ground level, the working of the agriculture and the meeting of the agriculture and city. Both to Ilsan to the south and Paju phase I to the north.