Today we have been visiting the Mustionjoki area for the last time.
With Marco Casgrande, we have been in Billnäs site in order to see the place without snow ;) and to make mesurements of some places we were thinking to design a fishway : level of the water, space wilde between the historical buildings, , colors, direction of the light, possible vegetation...all these details are important to imagine a fishway which could integrate the existing landscape. We took many pictures, that you will see later.
So Billnäs,and also Aminneförs, since we decided many weekes ago to focus only on these two dams. We had a very nice walk on 2 hours between the two dams, a long of the river, trying to have a vision of a designed walkway,many fishermen and families staying and having picnic on the waterfronts. No so easy, nobody was there ! but the bucolic landscape carries nices pictures in our mind. Wait a little bit, some sketches will arrive soon from this walkway !

In Aminneförs, we met a journalist, who interviewed us for the swedish speaker local newspaper. About our personnal backgrounds, ou work, our vision of fishways...also some interesting critics about the question of designing a fishway in a private area, as well as Billnäs ! This is an important question for us, we have absolutely to contact the Billnäs owner, but from Marco, he seems enthousiastic about our project. Who knows ?
Also some pictures for the newspaper, us working, us sitting in front of the river...I am curious about this article, at least it shows that local inhabitants are really interested about the Mustionjoki project. I have to say that I was not expecting that, maybe my french way of mind. It is so positive !

Marco organised a meeting with interesting persons form the Raasepoori urbanism, the biggest city of the district (before Karjaa). We have to add the names on a list of thanks on our website at the end of the project. We got useful informations : the complete list of fishes species planned to go in in the Mustionjoki River, the complet plans/sections/elevations...of Billnäs area, the complete project of the old fishway which existed in Aminneför before they built the national road. Actually, we learn that it is not the dams which prevent the fishes to go int the river, but the construction of the road, wich destroyed the old fishway. Interesting!

From all these informations, we decided, hopefully definitively, where to place the 2 fishways : in Aminneförs, on the North side, to avoid the road and take profit of the flood of the river (which attracts fishes, so it can be ideal to lead fishes in a fishway at this precise place) , and in Billnäs among the buildings, and probably a part inside a building, in a nice and artistic architecural way.

We talk a lot with Marco and the persons we met anout the consequences of our project : this kind of visionnary plan have never been done there, even if the Karjaa community is talking about fishway for twenty years :) So we have to produce very strong images, or maybe only one, in the newspapers, to give again enthousiasm about this project. We speak also about Art Landscape, and I think this is the main interest of our work. Ar least for me, beeing an architecture student.

I am doing the final report plan as well as sketches.

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