Pallikaranai marshland is a freshwater and partly saline marsh located in Chennai, India, along the Coromandel coast. It is the city’s only remaining wetland ecosystem, and it performs a vital role in acting as a sponge, absorbing excess water and preventing flooding. The aim of the project is to revive the ecology of the marsh, restore the edge and habitat conditions of the marsh and help people reconnect with the marsh. The project’s vision was developed using systematic thinking, and its key phrases in the title “REVIVE|RESTORE|RECONNECT” served as the framework for the project as a whole. As project outcomes through implementation guidelines, design strategies and interventions were ideated as a proposal for the reviving of the marshland.
