Recharged Landscape

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Recharged Landscape

29°20'33.67"N 94°57'07.93"W

Along the Texas Gulf Coast, unregulated groundwater extraction from the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers has resulted in land subsidence, an irreversible process where the compaction of clay and silt layers causes the land to sink permanently. What may appear as natural is actually a record of human intervention and environmental consequence.

This project proposes an intervention that restores balance between the landscape and human activity through the introduction of a managed aquifer recharge system and a soil recycling facility. Recharge ponds are strategically placed in areas of higher soil permeability to allow water to percolate slowly through the soil and replenish the depleted aquifers. Where the soil is more impervious, controlled injection wells pump filtered water directly into the ground. The recycling center restores contaminated soils and aggregates to replenish the hydrocarbon contaminated soils.

Recharged Landscape seeks to create a dialogue between the contaminated land and the built environment, reclaiming a territory that was once defined by extraction into a place of recharge.

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Fall 2025

bryn fuxiang kane