MICRO-TOPOGRAPHIC INTERVENTION
PROJECTMae Moh Post-mining Reclamation
Lampang,Thailand
2020-2023
CLIENTElectricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT)
COLLABORATIONChula Unisearch
TYPOLOGY Strategy + Framework
SIZE135 sq.km.
STATUSConceptual Master Plan
POST-MINING ABSORBENT INFRASTRUCTURE
5 To 1A is envisioning the future of Mae Moh Mine as Headwater Absorbent Infrastructure, proposing a new linkage between mining operation and hydrological reclamation, to deploy hybrid ecosystem services to multiple stakeholders through topographic strategies and operative design interventions - with the Headwater Mae Moh Mine as a pilot project.
The main strategy is to create a “Zero-runoff landscape’, where water is decentralized vertically and horizontally on the landscape, creating a network of Headwater Absorbent Infrastructure. The proposed infrastructure simulates the natural hydrological composition, deploying diverse ecosystems and programs that would unfold through the different gradient degrees of saturation across the landscape. On the macro-strategy, connectivity is key, where the spatial framework is defined by synchronizing the man-made and natural water system, overlaying onto the existing topography and context to identify zonations of different inundation levels: Permanent, Seasonal, Ephemeral. While on the micro-strategy, a decentralized micro topographic system is implemented, where the extraction and dumping landform typologies are deployed as topographic devices to create a multi-level landscape. This operative design is time-based, weaving into the existing mining reclamation plan and the context of the site. Where a series of operational systems and spatial intervention operates over multiple timeframes now to the year 2050. Evolving through time; natural hydrology and wetland succession would gradually shape the landscape, creating a performative landscape as Headwater Absorbent Infrastructure, adaptable to the fluctuated future where new ecology and economy emerges within this shifting ground.
PROJECTMae Moh Post-mining Reclamation
Lampang,Thailand
2020-2023
CLIENTElectricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT)
COLLABORATIONChula Unisearch
TYPOLOGY Strategy + Framework
SIZE135 sq.km.
STATUSConceptual Master Plan
POST-MINING ABSORBENT INFRASTRUCTURE
5 To 1A is envisioning the future of Mae Moh Mine as Headwater Absorbent Infrastructure, proposing a new linkage between mining operation and hydrological reclamation, to deploy hybrid ecosystem services to multiple stakeholders through topographic strategies and operative design interventions - with the Headwater Mae Moh Mine as a pilot project.
The main strategy is to create a “Zero-runoff landscape’, where water is decentralized vertically and horizontally on the landscape, creating a network of Headwater Absorbent Infrastructure. The proposed infrastructure simulates the natural hydrological composition, deploying diverse ecosystems and programs that would unfold through the different gradient degrees of saturation across the landscape. On the macro-strategy, connectivity is key, where the spatial framework is defined by synchronizing the man-made and natural water system, overlaying onto the existing topography and context to identify zonations of different inundation levels: Permanent, Seasonal, Ephemeral. While on the micro-strategy, a decentralized micro topographic system is implemented, where the extraction and dumping landform typologies are deployed as topographic devices to create a multi-level landscape. This operative design is time-based, weaving into the existing mining reclamation plan and the context of the site. Where a series of operational systems and spatial intervention operates over multiple timeframes now to the year 2050. Evolving through time; natural hydrology and wetland succession would gradually shape the landscape, creating a performative landscape as Headwater Absorbent Infrastructure, adaptable to the fluctuated future where new ecology and economy emerges within this shifting ground.