Boardwalks and platforms guide visitors through the constructed wetland.
Riparian planting practices offer natural filtration around the edge of the wetland.
The existing local ecologies and proposed methods of intervention.
Each of the platforms use different methods of filtration for water and ecological monitoring.
Bachelor of Design with Honours
In the Eastern Reaches of Christchurch’s Ōtākaro/Avon River lies a stagnant wasteland, a former wetland-turned suburb now deemed too swampy to rebuild. The river flows contaminated by heavy-metal-laden stormwater runoff from the urban catchment. This wetland restoration proposal employs Water Sensitive Design strategies to revitalise the interconnected health of the wetland, river and catchment. Boardwalks and platforms guide people along planted, pleated and woven edges, facilitating kaitiakitanga beyond the river’s edge.