Flood Control and Water Interaction: This Contradiction is the Topic

A bank that simultaneously needs to block water and allow access to water. Flood control requires a continuous high wall, while water access requires people to be able to walk to the water's edge; these two requirements are in direct conflict. The solution should be visible in the image: the levee is made into a stepped, multi-level cross-section, allowing people to walk on the levee top and also down to a lower platform; or the levee is buried within a long, gentle mound, appearing as a grassy slope from the city side rather than a wall. The flood control elevation line should still be discernible in the image. Avoid: directly creating a vertical concrete flood wall that separates people from the water, neglecting flood control elevation for the sake of water access, covering the levee with decorative cladding, or making the solutions for both needs invisible.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一段同時要擋水與要親水的岸。防洪要求一道連續的高牆,親水要求人能走到水邊,兩件事直接衝突。畫面裡看得出解法:堤防被做成階梯狀的複式斷面,人走在堤頂也能走到堤下的平台;或是堤防被埋進一座長形的緩丘裡,從城市側看是草坡不是牆。防洪的高程線在畫面裡仍然讀得出來。避免:直接做一道垂直的混凝土防洪牆把人與水隔開、為了親水而忽略防洪高程、把堤防用貼面裝飾掩蓋、讓兩種需求的解法看不出來。