Elevating Resilience: Multi-Layered Infrastructures Engaging the Rising Tides

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Elevating Resilience: Multi-Layered Infrastructures Engaging the Rising Tides

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title: Elevating Resilience: Multi-Layered Infrastructures Engaging the Rising Tides

creator: Steven DeFuria

subject: Seaside architecture, Florida, Miami, Designs and plans; Sea level; Flood damage prevention; City planning, Florida, Miami; Wentworth Design Excellence Award winner (2020)

description: The exploration of resilient elevated infrastructure in multiple layers with the highest density development occurring at the waterfront where the most demanding defenses are needed. Miami offers aunique opportunity due to its placement within the top five ranking of cities at the highest risk of sea level rise, both globally and domestically, in addition to the projected population, economic growth, and rapid increase of high rise development. Like the historic dikes of Holland, the coastal defense system for Miami is only as secure as its weakest link. Continuity is dependent on a flexibility of tactics to address the full range of variable conditions along the coastline. By identifying three representative conditions, the work aims to create a layering of defense strategies to generate a model for a continuous defensive barrier with no breaks. Elevating the infrastructure allows for secondary benefits such as the redevelopment of the existing superblock fabric, eliminating the automobile as the preferred mode of transportation, and allowingfor human scale development. In addition, the implementation of new architectural typologies allows for the adaptation for the expected population growth. The transition to a pedestrian friendly city offers multi-level strategies to reduce the per capita carbon emissions that has created the overarching issue behind the nature of sea level rise; climate change.

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

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date: 2020

type: Thesis

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language: eng

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