1 compiled by Nathan Scrivo
2 "UK geology" <http://www.coastalguide.org/england/figure2.gif>
Mississippi Delta (structure for expansion):
1<http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/miss_hires.jpg>
1<http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/miss_hires.jpg>
New York City (Transportation Structure):
Port Severn to Parry Sound, Lake Huron, Canada:
1 "map 2202 port severn to parry sound" <http://dowsar.com/georgian.htm>
2 comments:
Nate-
Just this weekend, the papers present a cyclone that just ravaged Bangladesh, to the borders of Dhaka, that killed maybe 2400 people. Check yesterday's and today's NYT.
And the eroding coastlines is another variant of the effects of global warming. I don't know if your architectonic-coral processes are best utilized here, in these such places, to stabilize and control, to meet rising water with rising boundary conditions? Or maybe this is just a slightly updated version of the old Holland/dikes scenario? And, really, these are not problem-solving solutions to the bigger global issues- its just raising the stakes for an even more catastrophic disaster further down the road. But still, the New Jersey seacoast responds to such issues, but pumping more and more sand onto eroded beaches (and governments are getting less and less likely to agree to fund such temporary cosmetic adjustments used by so few people, for private recreational purposes. And insurance companies require buildings on pilins (with utilities and mechanicals raised high, and blow-out walls for flooding...but even this is a minor cosmetic adjustment..with the goal of just putting everything back to the way it was before the nor'easter did its damage. A coral-based construct would be an incisively new approach with somewhat more longterm results.
Still, I feel very uneasy that- at this late stage in the semester- the water/notion hasn't yet gelled into a compelling strategy or a specific challenge. I do wonder if you are working just too hard to conceptualize a truly amazing, provocative set of drop-dead intentions...without a firm idea behind it. I will need to miss Monday night's session, but I do hope that Andrew and Lisa will be able to brainstorm all of these thoughts, sites and challenges into a firmer, more specific and more precisely defined proposal.
Wish I could be more specific here, but I am really needing to have the initiative firmly in your hands. I can really only be responding. jp
this is also the problem that i'm having as i try to apply strategies to these sites i realize that it is only a somewhat more longterm fix, in the end i'm proposing no solution to the root of the problems and i've strayed away from my original ideas about tectonics and making. systems thinking can be applied to the way cities react to a new environment but this involves urban planning, transportation and infrastructure much more so than architecture...
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