The Occupiable Seawall: Transforming Resilience Strategies

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The Occupiable Seawall: Transforming Resilience Strategies

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2021

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title: The Occupiable Seawall: Transforming Resilience Strategies

creator: Kyle Doner

subject: Flood damage prevention; Sea level, Environmental aspects; Sea walls; Seaside architecture, Massachusetts, Boston, Designs and plans

description: Redesigning the way that we interact with the seawall as a key factor to experience architecture as resilient infrastructure. Resilience strategies will begin to be implemented along the coastline to protect our coastal communities. This provides the opportunity to activate strategies in a way that emphasizes an interactive approach to the coastline as well as integration into the community. Identifying areas of vulnerability will influence the placement of the strategies to have the greatest impact onworking against sea level rise. Based on vulnerabilities, the purpose of this development is a structure that keeps the impending effects of sea level rise out of Chelsea Creek while maintaining a connection to the water within the community. The structure maintains a connection across Chelsea Creek to connect Chelsea and East Boston. The form creates a distinct separation between sea level rise and fuvial fooding. This distinction brings an addedlevel of defense to the coastline of Chelsea Creek. The site forces of the water begin to drive the form of the building as a way to attack sea level rise at the coastline. Elements begin to form as a way to create interactions and stray away from the disconnections that seawalls begin to create between the community and the water. Implementing a food gate allows access to the port during times of equal water levels while also creating a barrier and circulation point as sea levels rise. Floating forms allow for a visual and physical interaction with the water as the form moves in relation to the riseand fall of Boston Harbor. With these distinct elements, the existence of sea level rise will become more of an experience than a threat.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2021

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