Landscape Architecture for a mining solution : an exploration of pattern

Abstract

Mining has a lasting effect on our communities and urban environments and is especially visible in the City of Johannesburg. The industrial processes that formed the gold mine tailings sites and the natural processes that effect these sites create enchanting port industrial sites. The current remediation includes either unaccessible engineered solutions or a site is left derelict and unsafe. Exploring these processes on the project site, the study investigated how pattern making, derived form residual patterns, can inform the landscape for a recreation space. The combination of natural processes and proposed new processes to form the basis of a recreational landscape is explored.