When a human activity occurs in natural environment, it is hard to decide what move to make without a series of objective points that forms a route. It has to diverge from our practiced move that we walk along a route. And an increasing traffic forms a common route through objective points. Then additional artificial elements, human safety, pleasantness and efficiency follow one after another. Therefore an involvement of human-being with nature forms a route, and an increasing traffic brings following artificial services. Here, the method to create a route should be treated as a primal essence of nature, and our trial aims at the realization of a park that synthetically represents an artificial landscape, which tends to be planned in the name of convenience, and nature, which holds increasing environmental issues.

It is not an imitated nature, but an exposure of difference between nature and artificial environment that forms a park. The growth of this artificial environment assimilates to nature, and it maintains an identification of them. Concretely there are symbolic fallen trees after the hurricane that also damaged the whole ecosystem of the environment. To recover the damage, a biotope is installed as artificial environment in the park. It forms a small cycle of ecosystem. Our trial is not just planting trees on the damaged site, but a recovery of the ecosystem of the park itself. Many biotopes become a center of the recovery. They are placed by a grid according to human flow lines in the vast site. The artificial biotope is arranged along the artificial route. Each biotope is not an isolated environment, but connected by circulating water of creeks that run throughout the site. Biotopes in the park depend on not only rain water, but also this running water. Therefore the ecosystem spreads like a ripple effect from the ecosystem, and the overlapping effect finally forms a forest. (Kohki Hiranuma)

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