Ploy Piyawassopon

A6| Brittany, Andrew, & Ploy

For this design project, we redesigned Lost Lagoon’s lake bed and shoreline to ameliorate many of the ecological issues associated with the water body. Some of these issues include regular algae blooms, stagnant, highly polluted waters and foul odors due to decomposition via anaerobic bacteria. Our design intervention proposes a deepened lakebed and the addition of berms to increase oxygen levels and pollutant filtration within the Lagoon ecosystem. In addition, to increase the depth of the lagoon, we would add a solar powered aeration system to aerate the water within the lagoon. Adding oxygen fights foul smelling anaerobic bacteria and replaces them with aerobic bacteria which also decomposes organics, just without the smell. The berms would not only increase the wildlife habitat for non-aquatic species, but also increase wetland areas surrounding the lagoon. These wetlands are extremely important for filtering pollutants entering the lagoon as well as for the many wetland species that call the area home. These berms would be mostly off limits to human foot traffic, however, there would be certain locations in the circumventing path that would allow humans to interact directly with the shoreline through boardwalks. We hope this limited access will be beneficial for nesting birds and local animals hoping to raise young without worrying about human disturbances.

Analysis

Intervention

GIF of shoreline change

Assignment 3 | Ploy Piyawassopon

  

Updated to include audio recordings from my site visits.