Placing New York City's Central Park in the center of Saigon at its correct scale is not simply a naïve Photoshop exercise.
This is a provocation to support the idea that the population of the metropolitan city of Ho Chi Minh City and its neighboring provinces strongly needs a regional park of such size to host countless recreational and sporting activities, as well as representing a green lung and home to biodiversity.
In this short research I have analyzed the most important parks of famous cities in the world and placed them in the correct scale of Ho Chi Minh City.
This shows that only some green lands not occupied by urbanization phenomena can be the site of a new regional park of a certain size.
In particular, I designed a new eco water park of 720 hectares in the province of Nhon Trach, a green and blue heart in the center of the urban region and easily accessible using the vast network of waterways, thus also favoring a mode of eco friendly transportation.
The park will be home to various green activities and water sports, also hosting natural swimming pool lagoons, as a sort of urban resort where you can swim in an uncontaminated natural context 20 minutes by boat from the heart of Saigon.
The project can also be feasible by granting some building possibilities in the adjacent areas, such as areas for hospitality and services and new homes in the greenery, to also be co-financed by private real estate developers.
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