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The fluid garden of Kitakami : weaving boundaries along the Tsunami coast
The fluid garden of Kitakami is an experimental project that rethinks adaptive disaster lifestyle in the coastal area of Japan where a Tsunami hit communities in 2011. The approach is to weave several aspects of traditional Japanese culture to design a new resilient landscape that celebrates natural cycles and understands humans as part of them. Shortly after the disaster, the reconstruction process was top-down; the government planned the reconstruction budget and quickly implemented the same generic super-dike design for every municipality to trigger fast economic recovery. However, the seawalls do not prevent the Tsunami from hitting the settlements. Instead, it delays the arrival of the giant waves, increasing the time available to evacuate the local populations. On the other hand, the seawalls have not improved the surrounding natural environment in the long term; at the same time, it has puzzled the land use of the locals since the crops, and the soil behind the dikes will still be hit by the saltwater eventually. Moreover, most plans are not well thought through, as all the walls had to be finished before 2020; thus, many of the quickly built constructions are not well fitted to specific site’s needs and realities; their efficacy is also questionable. The proposal explores how people could deal with the natural disaster cycles of the Tsunami coast by using traditional knowledge. The seawall solution ignores ancient Japanese cultural practices, as it relies on a rigid tool that aims to fight nature rather than dialogue with it and explore the dynamics of Tsunami landscapes. This dialogue between humans and the natural forces is based on Japanese traditions. In a proverbial way, most of the Shinto shrines in the disaster area remained intact when the Tsunami hit – as it reached the inland area, many of the shrines were standing on the very edge of the waves. Most of these constructions were dedicated to Susanoo or its relative deities, the gods of water, sea, storm, and pestilence. Ancient knowledge as an ...
The fluid garden of Kitakami : weaving boundaries along the Tsunami coast
The fluid garden of Kitakami is an experimental project that rethinks adaptive disaster lifestyle in the coastal area of Japan where a Tsunami hit communities in 2011. The approach is to weave several aspects of traditional Japanese culture to design a new resilient landscape that celebrates natural cycles and understands humans as part of them. Shortly after the disaster, the reconstruction process was top-down; the government planned the reconstruction budget and quickly implemented the same generic super-dike design for every municipality to trigger fast economic recovery. However, the seawalls do not prevent the Tsunami from hitting the settlements. Instead, it delays the arrival of the giant waves, increasing the time available to evacuate the local populations. On the other hand, the seawalls have not improved the surrounding natural environment in the long term; at the same time, it has puzzled the land use of the locals since the crops, and the soil behind the dikes will still be hit by the saltwater eventually. Moreover, most plans are not well thought through, as all the walls had to be finished before 2020; thus, many of the quickly built constructions are not well fitted to specific site’s needs and realities; their efficacy is also questionable. The proposal explores how people could deal with the natural disaster cycles of the Tsunami coast by using traditional knowledge. The seawall solution ignores ancient Japanese cultural practices, as it relies on a rigid tool that aims to fight nature rather than dialogue with it and explore the dynamics of Tsunami landscapes. This dialogue between humans and the natural forces is based on Japanese traditions. In a proverbial way, most of the Shinto shrines in the disaster area remained intact when the Tsunami hit – as it reached the inland area, many of the shrines were standing on the very edge of the waves. Most of these constructions were dedicated to Susanoo or its relative deities, the gods of water, sea, storm, and pestilence. Ancient knowledge as an ...
The fluid garden of Kitakami : weaving boundaries along the Tsunami coast
Miura, Shizuka (author) / Hernandez Quintanilla, Miguel / Faisal, Ahmed
2022-06-01
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