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MOSTON
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Get to Know This Project
The proposal weaves a “Golden Thread” through the site, a continuous narrative band that re-stitches fragmented habitats, industrial remnants and everyday routes into one legible structure. Around this seam, five intertwined bands – Repair, Ecological, Everyday, Narrative and Connection – organise soil remediation, habitat creation, daily social life and movement. Inspired by kintsugi, the landscape does not hide its fractures; restoration is made visible as golden threads of planting, timber and paths that celebrate repair rather than replacement.
BACKGROUND
SCARS WHERE PAST LABOUR STILL SHAPES LIFE
Moston’s topography was once sculpted by coal, factories, and polluted waterways; slag heaps, buried foundations, and compacted soil still lie beneath everyday homes and roads. The seemingly rough grasslands or naturally growing birch groves that exist today are precisely those that have grown from these scars, transforming ruins into unexpected habitats. Therefore, this plan does not view industrial relics as waste to be erased, but rather as ecological capital— new plantings, soil remediation, and community care can reweave the fruits of past labor into vibrant land.
COMICS : a golden threads
MOSTON TRANSCRIPTS
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