DUTCH VALLEY

Pressure on agricultural production in China is rising exponentially. On the one hand, the urban population is increasing dramatically, resulting in the occupation of valuable farmland; on the other, Chinese agriculture is poised on the verge of an intense program of modernization and sustainable conservation. Intensive and efficient use of space is hereby self-evident. Dutch Valley, a plan for the Jing Hai province, southwest of the harbor city provides an answer to this issue. The plan directs the cohesion and cooperation among the agriculture, greenhouse cultivation and nature preservation sectors in terms of programme, economy, energy and sustainability will lead to an integrated territorial development scheme. With water-management as the main spatial organizing principle, a physical hart of water buffers and lakes, to which miscellaneous leisure-related functions are attached, and from which a highly balanced nourishment of a large scale archetypical Dutch production landscape is regulated. With this, precipitation, water inlet, purification and recycling of water are attuned to demand, and different program parts maintain diverse social, technical, economic and ecologic symbiotic relations with each other.