A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
10.1002/ad.1077.abs
Since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, our polarised perception of land and water has been irrevocably shifted by the failure of static levee flood‐control systems. Ila Berman explains how a more fluid geographical approach to land and water, which places an emphasis on continuous mutable ecologies, is key to a more sustainable future. She describes four experimental projects that are ground‐breaking in their treatment of the relationship between the aquatic and terra firma. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
10.1002/ad.1077.abs
Since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, our polarised perception of land and water has been irrevocably shifted by the failure of static levee flood‐control systems. Ila Berman explains how a more fluid geographical approach to land and water, which places an emphasis on continuous mutable ecologies, is key to a more sustainable future. She describes four experimental projects that are ground‐breaking in their treatment of the relationship between the aquatic and terra firma. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Amphibious Territories
Berman, Ila (author)
Architectural Design ; 80 ; 66-73
2010-05-01
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
fluid breakwater system , fog catchers , folded water‐walled levees , Yusuke Obuchi, Wave Garden, Central Coast, California, 2002 , Kuth/Ranieri Architects, Folding Water, ‘Rising Tides’ competition, 2008‐09 , Kinderdijk, South Holland , new forms of architecturally embedded energy , ‘Amphibious Living’ , perforated surface intermittently filled with a cellular stack of pump ventilators , macro‐scaled infrastructural rhizome , hydrogen‐fuelled hover cars , mobile geography , Hydro‐net project , IwamotoScott , Anderson Anderson Architecture, Alluvial Sponge Comb, New Orleans and Venice, 2006 , algae‐harvesting , levee flood‐control systems , bladder barrier system. , reed‐like housing towers , high‐rise, high‐density aquatic living , ‘water cities’ , multi‐pronged inflatable laminar structure , drilling robots , geothermal mushrooms
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