Resilient city is not a passive concept to resist disasters, whereas it is an active and positive concept combining disaster preventing system and others, giving local residents a better living condition and values.

Paraground

Para-

From Ancient Greek ( para’, “beside ; next to, near, from, against, contrary to “)

Paraground, attached interfaces, connecting old and new village life, simultaneously acting as mechanism to increase tenacity.

Xinxing harbour village, located in Chengmai county, Hainan, situated in the middle of river and ocean. The current weak resilient system is lack of multiple tenacity to resist natural disaster on the site. Only the embankment act as a solid interface cutting the wetland and the village.

We aim to design a multiple resilience system, following the original east – west relative based village developing pattern, using different scale “platforms” as intervention, to integrate multivariate systems. Considering the site condition and budget issue, we separate the total design project into 4 phases, integrating the new 80 to 100 family city, natural environtment, disaster resilience and power supply, to establish a complex resilient network, proposing a total design strategy for 21 –century city.