After last weekend's discussion. I am happy to confirm a satisfactory resolution to the canyon/ lake impasse.
(ref plan and section)
The solution includes capping the water level around the + 254 mark so that the water body is now at the bottom of the canyon for most of the year and there is a continuous path all around it. A lot 0f the trees inside the canyon can now be retained and because of the descent volume (approx 7,ooo cu mts.) it will still do all the things that we had envisioned.
The vision is that the canyon would be a complete ecosystem with a living water body ie. which is self cleaning, which swells and shrinks within managable limits.
The canyon would be seen an invaluable resource for the landscape and environment planning students.
In spirit of the open source there would be a degree of flexibility so nature/ institution/ community are allowed to edit the size/ shape volume.
The southern slope of the canyon could be in the form of steps/ ghats which would gradually descend into the canyon.
More later but feel free to approprite the intervention in your doodles...
to give an idea of scale the building block to the left of the section is 15m wide and 17 m high.
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