Sempadan Dumo: Marine Cultivation at Sepanggar Bay

Sabah's rich marine biodiversity has brought food, protection, and socio-economic importance to coastal communities. Due to anthropogenic activities and the rise of developments at Sepanggar Bay, ecological inheritance has experienced ecological lost. ThThe project explores on 'living shorelines' to support ecological services towards resilience and the living quality of the community through rehabilitation.

The project adopts the ideation of Ecopuncture, a co-existance between nature and human as a whole system. Thus, Sempadan Dumo (Kebun) curates a space of cultivation, a live-work community that farms and plants marine biodiversity to which a development supplements the community’s livelihood as a beginning growth and regional centre at Sepanggar Bay.

The proposal focuses around two key strategies - optimize coastal edge as a green corridor in two local communities which mimics the ecological processes providing an environment that is tempered for ecosystem growth. Second, holistic design principles in respect to site-slope and unstable ground.

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