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Preservation as Provocation

Zheming Cai’s ASLA award-winning student project departs from military history to integrate tourism and landscape preservation.

Shute's Folly Island: Redefining Tourism Site Plan. Courtesy Zheming Cai.
Shute’s Folly Island: Redefining Tourism Site Plan. Courtesy Zheming Cai.

Undergraduate Zheming Cai’s ASLA award-winning student project to reimagine the historic military site of Shute’s Folly Island off coastal South Carolina took on the twin behemoths of preservation and tourism and forged them into a refined solution that balanced the site’s architectural and landscape histories. Continue reading Preservation as Provocation