The Heron and Gibbon, a Wet-Home-Land Code PSC024 Water is not a hinder, it is a way for communication. When designing communities for people, one of the most important aspects must be to provide sufficient facilities for the inhabitants and users. The archiecture must be arranged in such a way that everybody feel comfortable and pleased with their everyday environment. It is also important to allow nature and habitats to have its place. This design is a solution for the question -Who wants to live in swamp? Good qualities of the site's environment must be taken care of, and its genius loci enhanced. The site presented in this project has big areas that are temporarily flooded at certain times of the year. At present time, for practical reasons this land is not used. The soggy and loose soil is very tricky and expensive to develop for housing. Previously, the construction arrangements in similar areas have been not only expensive, but also devastating for the natural habitats where the rich variety of species of a wetland live. Therefore this proposed community is arranged around a walking and bicycle path of a fundamentally new design. Weight from the human activities must be spread out over a big area because of the poor carrying capacity of the watery soil. The basements of the housings and paths should be environmental friendly, and inexpensive. These criterias have been met by using trees for fundament for the walking-bicycle path. Preassure from the load is efficiently spread out in the soil through the root system. Trees that are useful might be oak or alder. Light materials such as aluminium and wood are used for the construction. For people who live and work there the tree rows provide a beautiful alley that run along the paths and houses. The inhabitants of the people's community live among the trees like Gibbon monkeys in the flooded djungles of Amazonas. Three community centres are laid out in the middle of the "wheels", these provide services such as shops, kindergarten, school, meeting places, healthcare etc. By the centres there are also park areas, with plants that are "waterproof". Bulky or heavy goods throughout the whole community is transported on the canals. The canals can of course be used for people getting to and from other parts of the area. Walking-bicycle path and canal connect to the big parking area and working area with road access for motor vehicles. As waters are great for communication and transport, this community is fitted with a marina just where the new canal meets the river. A wonderful feature of waterways is the possibility of recreation. The ground near the houses can be fitted with floating gardens, at times of flooding the whole garden lot, including paths, is lifted by floating tanks. Plants appropriate for the wet conditions are preferably planted in soils containing a lot of peat. Soil and plants are put in permeable large "trays". Species useful are Rhododendron put in high peat stacks, carex, fern, grasses, alders etc. Wetlands are nearly perfect for water purification. In this solution the liquid effluents from the communities are flushed out in a carefully redesigned reedbed and passed on to the great river. So is the water from the creek, this is because of the excess containt of nutriants from the crop fields. This water is led to the purification reed bed through a new canal connected to the creek which is shut off from its ending by a sluiss. The solid feeces are separated from the fluid and decomposed by each house. Another practicality suitable for this site is energy plantations of willow (salix). This site is situated by a big wetland constituted of areas of bog, with some trees such as alder and pine, great reedbeds with a rich wildfowl. It also contains open waters, lakes. For the people it is a nice area for recreation. Travelling through this part, by walking on the footpaths or by boat, you can experience the pleasant and tremendously rich nature, with a great number of species, not the least the populations of birds, such as the inhabitants the herons. Bird watching towers are put in place. The northern part is turned into a nature reserve where moving around is limited geographicly and in time of the seasons. South from that the access is free. Such a biologically rich land could be built in wet areas elsewhere, i.e. in places that are constructed or biologically poor. On the creeks, canals and river people can use rafts for fishing, birdwatching, bathing or sauna, and in wintertime it is a wonderful place for ice-skating. In short, this design, "the Heron and Gibbon, a wet-home-land" meets the needs for a pleasant and comfortable community, and yields nature's needs. It also put people in a previously abandoned, threatened and "useless" place.