Grey to Green: Rehabilitation of urban dump site through  regenerative landscape design

Sharifah Khalizah Syed Othman Thani; Noorjannah Abdul Rahim; Nik Hanita Nik Mohamad; Nor Hanisah Mohd Hashim

doi:10.21834/e-bpj.v1i3.364

Authors

Sharifah Khalizah Syed Othman Thani Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, UiTM Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Noorjannah Abdul Rahim Centre for Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, UiTM Shah Alam, 40000 Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Nik Hanita Nik Mohamad Centre for Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, UiTM Shah Alam, 40000 Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Nor Hanisah Mohd Hashim Centre of Studies for Park and Amenity Management, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, UiTM Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v1i3.364

Keywords:

Regenerative Landscape Design, Urban Dump Site, Rehabilitation, Mukim Krubong ex-Landfill

Abstract

Attempt to rehabilitate the degraded land has been made, and has evidenced many successful redevelopments atop of the land. This paper attempts to look into the specific role of landscape architects in remedying the former dump site. The conceptual design by using principles of the regenerative landscape has been experimented through the proposed remediation of ex-landfill in Mukim Krubong, Malacca. Utilisation of the tropical plant species as an adaptive mechanism to ecologically remedying the contaminated land has been identified. It is hoped that the findings of this paper could contribute to expanding knowledge for sustainable landscape regeneration.

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