Lacul Fundeni Team 2 WAVE Living Lab 2021
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Rationale
- Why do you think this case is relevant? What is your hypothesis considering the landscape challenges?
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Location and scope
Water as a natural system
Geomorphology, typologies and dynamics of water areas
- Describe the water areas of your area in the contxt of the wider water system
In Romania, the running water system it spreads radially due to the relief configuration, the main river basins on the territory of Romania being the Danube and the Black Sea. The main flowing waters springing from the Carpathians have a longitudinal profile characterized by large slopes in the mountainous region, smoother in the region of hills and foothills and very smooth in the plain region and have as main basin of discharge the Danube. Making a close up to our water area, it is located in the southern region of the country in the Romanian Plain, more precisely in the Bucharest Plain and belongs to the river basin of the Argeș river. In this context, starting with the municipal context, the water body we are analyzing is located in the Pantelimon neighborhood, in sector 2 of Bucharest. Lake Fundeni is an anthropic lake arranged on the river Colentina and is part of the chain of lakes within city. In turn, the Colentina River springs from the Targoviste hills and together with Pasărea River, is a left tributary of Dâmbovița, which in turn is a tributary of Argeș, a river that flows into the Danube basin. Colentina springs from the hills of Targoviste, it covers a route of 98 km, of which 37.4 km on the area of Bucharest, representing the main hydrographic axis that crosses Sector 2. On this river, from upstream to downstream in a system of chained water bodies, between Buftea and Cernica were arranged 15 lakes, of which 10 lakes on the administrative territory of Bucharest. The existing ponds along the valley were extended and transformed into artificial, recreational lakes, which changed the natural flow regime.
Bucharest is located on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, which flows into Argeș, a tributary of the Danube. Lakes are the most common types of water in Bucharest - of which the most important are Herăstrău, Floreasca, Tei and Colentina - are located in the north of the city, along Colentina River, a tributary of Dâmboviței. Lake Fundeni is an artificial lake created by man on the Colentina River. The lake chain of the Colentina River has been created since 1936, by damming the river and rehabilitating the swampy riverbed. The dams are of the homogeneous earth dam type, having the upstream facing walled with concrete slabs, and the downstream facing grassed.
- Please identify the water bodies' catchment areas, tributaries and floodplains
The dynamics of these water areas around Fundeni Lake have undergone significant changes from the wetlands around the Coeltina River that can be seen in map done in 1790 by Colonel Specht and Capitan Hora von Otzellowitz to the well formed banks that can be seen in the Romanian military map done at the beginning of 20th century and furthermore in 1976 soviet maps we can observe the consolidation of the chain of lakes on the Colentina river including the channel between Lake Fundeni and Lake Tei and furthermore the formation of the lakes Dobroeşti and Pantelimon named after the villages close by.
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the western part of Fundeni Lake was crossed by the Bucharest-Feteşti railway through its connection with Obor Train Station. On the scale of the entire chain of lakes, the 20th century has seen the great landscaping projects, of which only a part has been realized. In 1937, on the initiative of King Carol II, a project was elaborated, which provided for the remediation of Fundeni Lake and the arrangement of the Colentina riverbed, between Fundeni and Dobroeşti villages. In the period between 1980-1985, extensive hydrotechnical operations were carried out to rehabilitate the Colentina riverbed, following the works from 1935-1938. Lake Fundeni was rehabilitated, establishing the shape which would remain, while the Dobroeşti and Pantelimon lakes were being formed in the Colentina riverbed, downstream from the Fundeni Lake. In 1983, in the context of these large urban operations in the territories located in the North-Eastern part of Bucharest and in the neighbouring villages, a project was elaborated, which provided for the restriction of the buildable perimeter and the creation of large recreational areas along the banks of the chain of lakes. As is the case with many projects following up to the years of the Romanian revolution in 1989, it was never put into action and further plans of the 1990 and beginning of the 21st century never followed up on that.
In the peninsular area of Lake Fundeni there was a fishing village. This peninsular area was connected to the rest of the city by a wooden bridge, which was modernized at the beginning of the 21st century. One of the few remaining traces of the fishing village is the name of the streets named after different species of fish. Fishermen remained few and preferred to use nets, in which the brown bullhead are entangled, which now dominates the habitat. A species of South African small catfish introduced into the chain of lakes Colentina after the revolution. In the built environment some of the old houses have been either overhauled or replaced by modern ones with new residents. Interest in residential development in the area is due to the favourable natural environment as well as the modernization of the road infrastructure and it’s accessibility with the city.
- Have there been any flood events in the past?
Fundeni Lake falls into a scenario with a high probability of floods, respectively floods that can occur once every 10 years.
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Chain of lakes
Dynamics of the water areas
Activities distribution on the lake banks
Flooding risk area on the banks of Fundeni Lake
Water as a living space
- Which habitats can be found in and along the water areas of your area?
- How is the water quality in your water areas?
- Which areas are still natural, which are urbanised/artificial?
- Are the rivers permeable for fish or blocked by artificial elements?(approx 200 signs)
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Chain of lake Fundeni
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Blue and Green Infrastructure
- What are the major potential elements of a green/blue infrastructure network? Are these likely to change/disappear? Why is that?
- You find my background material on green infrastructure in our reading list
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Water as a cultural space
Land use and water
- map the land uses along your water areas: settlements, infrastructure, agriculture, resource extraction, natural areas, energy production...
- describe in particular the historical evolution of land use pattern, please make use of historical maps
- description evolution, status quo and driving forces, is the land use likely to change? Why is that? (approx 200 signs)
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Cultural and spatial typologies of water areas
- Which spatial patterns have evolved in relation to your water areas?
- What is the role of water areas within the overall urban morphology? (approx 200 signs)
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Sacred spaces and heritage
- Which places/elements hold cultural value and to whom?
- You may add a map and some images, please also explain in your caption why these elements are valuable
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Visual appearance and landscape narrative
- Which elements are essential for the landscape character?
- Has the landscape been painted or otherwise depicted, when and whom? Which elements are essential?
- Which narratives exist? Who has written about this landscape or depicted it in some way?
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Water and People
Accessibility and usability
- Where are your water areas accessible, and where not? How strong are spatial obstacles preventing access?
- Who is using the spaces and how?
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Community Mapping
What is to be mapped here?
- Social groups from within the community, for example the youth, kids, students, parents, the retired etc. Typically, these groups have specific needs, which you can also make explicit on the map. These people might not be organized in any way, but they are usually present in the context you are observing
- Local stakeholder groups: these groups are organized in one or the other way. They only exist within the community context you are observing. For example: the local community center, local churches, local interest groups, the landowners, small businesses and retailers
- External stakeholder groups are not necessarily present in the environment you are observing, but they may have strong stakes and interests. These can be local authorities, politicians, associations, care services etc.
- For each group, you may identify their needs, objectives, power and capacities
- You may also identify gaps and power conflicts
- Please try to redepict these elements in an integrated way and in relation to your water landscape. What is the relationship between these groups? Are they close or distanced from each other? Who is more powerful? Which voices are hardly heard? Do they have any shared concerns?
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Possible Futures
- You can summarize your findings with a SWOT diagram and a DPSI(R) Model
- Link back to the Sustainable Development Goals: Which goals are at risk?
- What is your worst case scenario for this landscape?
- What is your best case scenario for this landscape?
- Present your scenarios in the form of a collage or sketch
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Collaborative Goal Setting
- Define strategic planning objectives based on the evaluation findings from your analysis
- Ideally, involve the community of your living labs into this process
- Link back to your original targets from section one and the Development Goals
- 150 words text contribution
Spatial Strategy and Transect
- translate your strategic goals into a vision
- develop a spatial translation of your vision
- exemplify your vision in the form of a transect with concrete interventions
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From Theory of Change to Implementation
- For implementing your vision: Which partnerships are needed? Which governance model is required?
- Who needs to act and how? Draw and explain a change/process model/timeline
- Which resources are needed? On which assets can you build?
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References
- give a full list of the references you have used for your case
Process Reflection
- Reflect in your intercultural and interdisciplinary team on the outcomes of your study
- Which limitations were you facing?
- What have you learnt from each other?
- What did you learn in the Living Labs?
- What would you do differently next time?
- You can also use diagrams/visuals
- 250 words text