AWARD YEAR
2015
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Life On Land
KEYWORDS
Energy Recycling, CPC Kaohsiung Refinery, Ecological Purification
COUNTRY
Taiwan
DESIGNED BY
LIAO, ZHE-WEI
WEBSITE
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3il3sy1fpwn1mhs/AAAR1AUWSDajR_htXlstHrlga?dl=0
The Lungs Of The City
Hope use ecology and technology to purify CPC Kaohsiung Refinery into ecological parks.
Since 1941 Japanese naval fuel plant built by the Government in 1987 and the oil field from the fifth naphtha cracker, Housing area decades of petrochemical industrial pollution over ten years, serious damage to the health and the lives and property of the people, but also led to the history of Taiwan the longest anti-pollution protest. However, after operating for decades, where almost the entire plant is classified as contaminated sites, but also lead to potential local residents with cancer rate than the national average.
Given the 2015 Kaohsiung oil refinery is about to shut plants, stamina community eager to be able to 187 hectares of contaminated sites transition to ecological park. Houjing community wish goverment could offer contemporary and future generations of sustainable environmental protection purposes. This design will retain facility and transformed its function, hope use ecology and technology to purify and into Industrial heritage and ecological parks.