NCKU Dutch designer reveals the Floating Green Dragon - CNA
(中央社訊息服務20140531 17:02:16)Tainan, Taiwan, May 31, 2014
For the occasion of the Dragon Festival this weekend, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) reveals a design of a floating green dragon.
The Waterarchitect Bart van Bueren, a visiting expert at the College of Planning and Design at NCKU, southern Taiwan, designed this dragon as tourism attraction made from recycled materials with plants growing on it.
The floating green dragon will be the collaborative efforts of students, teachers, and designers from both NCKU and Dutch institutes and companies, according to van Bueren who is also a renowned architect from the Netherlands. He founded the Dutch Design Post in Tainan to enable interesting collaborations like this.
He said, the floating Yellow Ducky by fellow Dutch Designer Florentijn Hofman had tremendous popularity in Taiwan, it showed the power of a pop-culture icon. A floating Green Dragon is a similar concept, but as icon is deeply rooted in the Asian culture.
“The Dragon comes with a message that we should stop polluting nature,” Van Bueren noted, “We will clean up waste like plastic bottles, foam blocks, bamboo fishing nets and recycle these materials to build the green dragon. And then we put sand and soil on it to grow plants like mangrove, helophytes, banyan and bamboo. The type of plants will depend on salt or fresh water on the site.”
He also pointed out three possible locations to place the dragon, Taijiang National Park on fish farm, Anping Harbour, and Anping Canal. “This is to be decided by Tainan municipality or sponsors, as we are still looking for help to close the business case.”
“The expertise will come from two Dutch companies, Drijvende Tuinen and Waterarchitect. Drijvende Tuinen has already made a lot of floating gardens in Amsterdam, Arno Baan is a true specialist in eco-structures like this”, said van Bueren. The Drijvende Tuinen team will visit Taiwan in September for the building and a ‘flood adaptation’ workshop at NCKU.
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For the occasion of the Dragon Festival this weekend, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) reveals a design of a floating green dragon.
The Waterarchitect Bart van Bueren, a visiting expert at the College of Planning and Design at NCKU, southern Taiwan, designed this dragon as tourism attraction made from recycled materials with plants growing on it.
The floating green dragon will be the collaborative efforts of students, teachers, and designers from both NCKU and Dutch institutes and companies, according to van Bueren who is also a renowned architect from the Netherlands. He founded the Dutch Design Post in Tainan to enable interesting collaborations like this.
He said, the floating Yellow Ducky by fellow Dutch Designer Florentijn Hofman had tremendous popularity in Taiwan, it showed the power of a pop-culture icon. A floating Green Dragon is a similar concept, but as icon is deeply rooted in the Asian culture.
“The Dragon comes with a message that we should stop polluting nature,” Van Bueren noted, “We will clean up waste like plastic bottles, foam blocks, bamboo fishing nets and recycle these materials to build the green dragon. And then we put sand and soil on it to grow plants like mangrove, helophytes, banyan and bamboo. The type of plants will depend on salt or fresh water on the site.”
He also pointed out three possible locations to place the dragon, Taijiang National Park on fish farm, Anping Harbour, and Anping Canal. “This is to be decided by Tainan municipality or sponsors, as we are still looking for help to close the business case.”
“The expertise will come from two Dutch companies, Drijvende Tuinen and Waterarchitect. Drijvende Tuinen has already made a lot of floating gardens in Amsterdam, Arno Baan is a true specialist in eco-structures like this”, said van Bueren. The Drijvende Tuinen team will visit Taiwan in September for the building and a ‘flood adaptation’ workshop at NCKU.
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