Award
2019 Student Merit Award
Category
General Design - Graduate Project
Landscape Architects
Cher Wong
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project Details
Rupture and flow, it explains both of the current relationship between northern (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) and southern Cyprus (the Republic of Cyprus), and the historical walled-city and the new city in Nicosia over the past 46 years. While the physical boundaries are erected for separating, people, merchandise is still flowing. The purpose of this project ” Social Propeller” aims to create a living corridor that not only regenerate the walled-city by connecting through the moat towards the new city but also supports a social upward mobility system to attract a great population of oversea young Cypriot back, link with the new immigrants in Cyprus and further foster a young creative class to make up the young professional lost in Cyprus