Stone Revetment: Gaps Between Stones

A porous stone-pitched bank. The stones are natural boulders, varying in size, obtained locally or nearby, stacked interlocking in a dry-stack manner without cement. Gaps and holes of various sizes are left between the stones, some deep enough to be out of sight, allowing aquatic insects, small fish, and frogs to hide. Soil is packed into the stone crevices, and ferns and grass have already grown. The stacked slope is gentle, not vertical. Avoid: filling stone gaps with cement, using uniformly cut stone materials, making the bank a vertical retaining wall, using concrete products that mimic stone textures.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一段多孔隙的石砌岸。石塊是就地或鄰近取得的天然塊石,大小不一,以乾砌的方式互相咬合堆疊,不填水泥;石與石之間留著大小不同的縫隙與洞,有些深到看不見底,水生昆蟲、小魚與蛙可以躲進去。石縫裡塞著土,已經長出蕨類與草。堆疊的坡度是緩的不是垂直的。避免:用水泥把石縫填滿、使用規格一致的切割石材、把護岸做成垂直的擋土牆、使用模擬石頭紋理的混凝土製品。