Renowned ‘sponge city’ architect Kongjian Yu dies in Brazil plane crash | Brazil
Kongjian Yu, one of the most famous landscape architects in the world, was reportedly killed in a plane crash in the spantanal wetlands of Brazil while making a film about his work.
The 62 -year -old Yu was flying to a farm near Brazil’s Paraguay and Bolivia and the western border of Brazil, Mato Grosso Do Sul State.
Three people were killed on the ship: two Brazilian filmmakers, Luiz Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Junior and a well -known local pilot Marcelo Pereira de Barros.
CNN Brasil said they were working on a documentary called Planeta Esponja (Planet Sponge) about Ferraz and Crispim Junior. The title of the film is inspired by the leading work of the University of Peking – “Sponge City” concept – how cities will help cope with excessive air and floods in the age of climate change.
Yu used ancient Chinese water systems to redesign modern architecture, creating systems to help cities protect and reuse rainwater. This helps to regulate water flows in monsoon and dry seasons. “It is important to be friends with water,” he said.
YU’s architectural company Turenscape works in hundreds of cities in China. In a project at the foot of Beijing, Turenscape built holes on the banks of a river to slow down water flow and create natural filtration pools.
Other cities in Beijing and China emphasized the need for urban adaptation to climatic disasters to prevent overwhelming regions with severe floods and rainfall this year.
Turenscape recently received award from the Union of Landscape Architects. Won the biggest prize For a “floating forest ında in the state of Jiangxi in Jiangxi province, which makes the 126 acres of deteriorated landscape in the flood bed of the Yangtze River into a urban wetland that manages rain water and restores natural habitats. The park was praised by the judges for presenting a template for other cities that want to revive Blighted coastal landscapes ”.
Yu and his friends reportedly traveled to Barra Mansa in Fazenda by a famous river. Hacienda Brazilian television giant Globo’s country’s country’s most famous Pink series Pantanal’ı film.
Folha de Campo Grande, a local newspaper, said that the pilot was trying to cancel a descent when the plane lost altitude and fell “that causes the explosion immediately”. Police Chief Ana Cláudia Medina approved Four people died in the incident and said the officers were sent to the distant collision area to investigate the causes.
Pantanal, which carries the border region between Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, is one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands and one of the most biological diversity of South America. It is a famous popular tourism center for the presence of Hyacinth Macaw, Jaguar and Giant Ant, hosting hundreds of bird species, fish and mammals.
The famous Chinese architect recently attended a conference by the Brazilian Architecture and Urban Council in a conference where he talked about the “Sponge City” philosophy in Brasília, the capital of the country. “[Cities must] Hold the water, slow the water, embrace the water, ”he said An interview between them.
In September, the conference celebrated the 65th anniversary of the establishment of the futuristic capital of Brazil, created by the famous architect Oscar Niemeyer and Urban Planner Lúcio Costa in the 1950s.
Council President Patrícia Sarquis Herden said, “It is very important for experts such as Kongjian Yu to reflect on learning from other cultures about learning from other cultures, especially when experts, such as Kongjian Yu, to Brazilian cities, especially in urban sustainability and flexibility,” he said.
In Chinese social media, YU fans expressed disbelief in the news. “How can Professor Yu Kongjian leave us suddenly?” A Weibo user wrote.
