Protecting Paradise
Friendship, peace, equality, tranquillity and freedom can protect the Paradise – the most extensive rainforest of Central and South America. ‘Protecting Paradise: The Embassy Of Environmental Philanthropy’ represents a diplomatic and bilateral economic agreement that cultivates environmental protection, ethical authority, and political trust between China and the small Central American country of Nicaragua.
The premise of the thesis is based on China’s ‘Good Neighbour Policy’ and its new ambitions to develop positive foreign relations. China’s ‘friendly handshake’ investment to Nicaragua is a new inter- oceanic canal infrastructure through Nicaragua that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
The diplomatic gesture of building the Nicaragua Canal will represent a win-win situation for both parties involved: investment in the small Central American country will facilitate local economic, social sustainability, education and environmental protection for its unique lakes, volcanoes and rain forests while providing China with an image of a reliable, credible and ethical international stakeholder.
The thesis represents a discourse on foreign investments in underdeveloped countries as well as a demonstration of environmental awareness and protection practices, bringing together tourists and locals in an environment governed by five principles of peaceful coexistence.
Project Team
Victor Moldoveanu
September 2017 - June 2018
Instructors
CJ Lim and Eva Rosborg Aagaard
Technical Consultants
Simon Dickens, The Bartlett UCL
Matthew Wells, Techniker Structural Engineers
Stephan Holst, Transsolar Climate Engineers
Invited Critics
Christine Hawley
David Roberts
Simon Herron
Susane Isa
Diploma Examiners
Christine Hawley, The Bartlett UCL
CJ Lim, The Bartlett UCL
Naina Gupta, The Architectural Association
Søren Leth, Sleth
Design Realisation Report
DIN A4, August 2018
This report aims to introduce knowledge that is required in the realisation of building projects, within professional architectural design practice. The understanding of topics, such as planning, structural principles, construction, materials, details, building performance, building codes etc. is demonstrated in relation to the main building design project. The Design Realisation includes multiple amounts of stakeholders. In order to grasp the task of project delivery, project management is presented, understanding the importance of an interdisciplinary approach and integration, in order to create a successful project.
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