Revised Visualisation of Fish Survey

Flood & Non-Human Strategy Drawing

Initial Creekside Flood Embankment Design Drawings with Flood Level Simulation Physical Model

Met Office hadley Centre have published the new sea level projections in a report by the Environment Agency about the new sea level projections beyond 2100 in August 2019. According to this report, the line graph depicted three scenarios of flooding according to its density of emissions for London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast. I’ve used this information to understand what body of water we will deal with by creating a infiltration or retention basin with the lowest point of site.

I imagine this area to be used in different functions over time starting of as landscape to aquaculture landscape.

Resting Pond Distance Diagram

Group Red : European Eel

European Eels require deeper waters and sheltered areas to thrive. The should have a mix of shallow and deeper zones. Eels like to hide and are bottom dwellers, so the pond should have some deeper sections for them to rest and move, so they’ll be placed in deeper channels at 1.5 to 3 meters in the lower levels of the embankment.

Group Yellow : Flowing Water Species

They prefer slightly deeper zones and moderate flows. These been placed in the middle to lower levels of the embankment.

Group Orange: Brackish Water Species

These species shallower, coastal-like channels been placed in lowe or mid level zones with gentle slopes to allow for natural feeding behaviour.

Group Green: Small Freshwater Species

Channels for these species has been placed at the top upper levels of the embankment. They like shallow, calm waters.

Device Drawing - From Collage to Cyanotype

During the workprogress, drawn all of the fish species that were found in the Channelsea River according to Ricardo’s Survey Report and checked what species were endangered. Most of the species were in the least concerned except for the European Eel and European Seabass. With this information, I’ve depicted these species endangered by scaling them up compared to the other species and tried to place them according to which type of fish netting they’ve been found. As the European Eel, is endangered due to breeding in only Sargasso Sea and die afterwards only the juveniles arrive to English waters.

The collage started off with black and white drawings and pictures but then tried different variations of black and white, and tried cyanotype for the first time which captures the water with its colour.

Channelsea Island Film Essay V3

The previous movie has been re-created in split scene form with a black and white filter to increase the clarity of the videos and avoid flicking.

"If you walk through Three Mills today, it’s clear things have evolved; on one side of the mills and the buildings there’s now green space for people to go for picnics, fishing, and to walk freely. It’s a chance for people to spend time to see what it’s about and explore the area’s history. But then again, considering all of these improvements, Three Mills Green seems a bit dull than anticipated.

 Nearby, Prescott Channel and the Three Mills Lock have also been transformed, with crystal clear water connecting new raised walkways across the water, ideal for pedestrians and cyclists alike. Yet the narrow river’s intimacy makes it still feel like as a secret. How could we do more to help people connect with the river physically, through waterside recreation, providing fewer opportunities to simply pass by?

 In contrast, Channelsea Island became and still is a green island. The Channelsea River area, part of the island, was once a hive of industries but, after the industries were stopped, the island, apart from a tall buildings-studded skyline, seemed to have been left behind by the erosion of time. A high building trend has lately been evident in many of the current city developments, the focus of which is on vertical constructions.

 But we can also see these lofty buildings as a challenge — to consider future developments, and to try to propose an alternative way of life. One option is to concentrate on living more sustainable, community-based and historically appropriate lives; in fact, I would argue, that is exactly what narrowboats and floating homes provide. Narrowboats also allow people to live by the water, reconnecting with nature at first hand, rather than surrendering themselves to artificial world of high-rise living.

 A key part of this transition is the return to the river; the waterway has always been at the very heart of the community, not only sustaining the area with trade, but trading with and boosting its industries, and a vision for life on the water – perhaps via narrowboats and floating homes – would be a celebratory return to this historical use. Why not celebrate it again, and develop a simple, sustainable, vernacular way of living that is good for the earth and for people?

 If it is to be genuinely embraced as a floating way of life, the waterways will have to be improved: locks and flow-through systems that allow access to the river to be easy and free-running, but also facilitate more people having a more regular and relaxed life on the water while making sure that the ecological health of the river remains.

 To sum up then, although much has been done, there is a great deal more to be done. It should be possible to look at the future of Channelsea Island with great optimism, building on the work done down the line, by making better use of waterways and connectivity to the river itself. Repurposing this neglected and hollowed-out stretch of land has the potential not only of honouring the river’s past, but also of offering a positive vision for its future, where people and other life are able to flourish."