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The dialectic relationship between land and water that one is indispensable
to define the other seems to be forgotten. My design proposal for the
Back Bay Fens focused on the recovery of awareness of water flow in the
city. I wanted to reconstruct the memory of the relationship between water
and city in the Fens where the memory of tidal estuary and the memory
of a park as civic infrastructure are inscribed. I also wanted to represent
and revive the fluctuating relationship between land and water in contemporary
hydraulic vocabulary. The message I tried to implicit in my design is
to celebrate and commemorate "the city in water" with contemporary vocabulary
of "water in the city".
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