Justin Lau Y4
Leigh Frontier Extreme changes to the global climates are expected to breach over 1,000 historic landfill sites on the coast of Britain through erosion. Many of these landfills are unlined to prevent leaching, with deposit records lost or unrecorded. The increasing risk poses serious pollution damage to the estuarine landscape and beyond. Leigh Frontier proposes a chained fortification embedded along the eroding edge of Leigh Marshes, allowing time to remediate one of the most toxic old landfill sites in the UK.
The Frontier defends the contaminated patch from inundation, whilst also provide a seaside recreational ribbon for local communities to play. The project applies materials that weather overtime to register the scars of climate change, and eventually transforming the architecture into a monumental coastal rock-bund. Thus, in 100 years, Leigh Frontier will tell that tale of the ‘unglamorous landscape’ through the symbolic gesture signaled by the leaning Beacon.
