Ware [2011]

Fluvial Margins.
The project proposes a series of biocentrically driven levees that aim to counteract and absorb potential sea level rise while maintaining a useful and necessary combination of urban settlements, agricultural productive and natural resources in the form of biocentric habitat. It has been designed for adaption. At this moment in time, no scientist can seem to put a figure on the rate at which sea levels are rising and in fact there are some people who believe it is a myth in that sea level rise in one location is merely offset by land raising in other parts of the world, all of which has evidence, none of which is definitive…  

Johnston [2012] Context A landscape in crisis. Rising sea levels are changing the site, creating an opportunity to establish a new self sustaining community. Built on agricultural knowledge, the community manage the landscape and resources so it creates a mutually beneficial place to live, work an play. As defence from the water is established perceptions and fear change and can work towards achieving the aims to transform the dying edge and bring back an economic viability and activate the space again. The 1:200 site is on the edge of the marine lake which was created so water activities could take place regardless of the tide. Purpose Reconnect with the water. This area is to provide leisure and recreation activities for the people living and visiting the site. Create a new destination and bring new life to the waterfront in a safe and attractive environment that would invite visitors, residents and shoppers. A significant space that can be used by all generations and will last for generations. Create a place. Execution An interface between land and sea. The big sky brings a sense of scale, humbling, inspiring, a place to reinvigorate the self and senses. It is a place to stroll, cycle, play, meet, have bracing walks in winter, read you book on a sunny day, a place to sit in a warm cafe and drink coffee, a place to be entertained, plenty of benches to sit back and relax, picnic on a grassy bank, watch children swim, learn to canoe, sail, windsurf, go bird watching, reflect at invigorating viewpoints, shelter from the exposed coastal conditions. The extensive provision of seating in a beautiful place where fauna and flora can flourish and support delicate habitats creates an ideal place to be.
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Johnston [2012]

Context

A landscape in crisis. Rising sea levels are changing the site, creating an opportunity to establish a new self sustaining community. Built on agricultural knowledge, the community manage the landscape and resources so it creates a mutually beneficial place to live, work an play. As defence from the water is established perceptions and fear change and can work towards achieving the aims to transform the dying edge and bring back an economic viability and activate the space again. The 1:200 site is on the edge of the marine lake which was created so water activities could take place regardless of the tide.

Purpose

Reconnect with the water. This area is to provide leisure and recreation activities for the people living and visiting the site. Create a new destination and bring new life to the waterfront in a safe and attractive environment that would invite visitors, residents and shoppers. A significant space that can be used by all generations and will last for generations. Create a place.

Execution

An interface between land and sea. The big sky brings a sense of scale, humbling, inspiring, a place to reinvigorate the self and senses. It is a place to stroll, cycle, play, meet, have bracing walks in winter, read you book on a sunny day, a place to sit in a warm cafe and drink coffee, a place to be entertained, plenty of benches to sit back and relax, picnic on a grassy bank, watch children swim, learn to canoe, sail, windsurf, go bird watching, reflect at invigorating viewpoints, shelter from the exposed coastal conditions. The extensive provision of seating in a beautiful place where fauna and flora can flourish and support delicate habitats creates an ideal place to be.

Mad Wharf [Smith 2010]

This projects is set within a transient landscape that experiences a shift from dune scape to dune backlands and strategically programmed influences of fresh water and salt water. Water sources are provided in the form of constructed semi wet slacks and riparian buffer. The landscape is able to respond to increasing levels of water by evolving into salt marsh, which is intentionally accelerated through constructed components and forms an intelligent flood defence system. Existing tourism is largely the result of an extensively used coastal footpath will be redirected to avoid the dune ridges and now pass through the site. Tourism will continue to evolve in a more sustainable manner as the design fuses it together with a new form of saline agriculture. The complex processes that are programmed to occur are not derived from aesthetic decisions, and so a number of visual elements are introduced to bring awareness to these systems. The design will be realised through a number of phases, each of which is constructed at a pre-allocated time in response to changes in predicted ecological evolution. This allows a degree of control over the dynamics of the site without preventing changes from happening, and allows them to be used for anthropocentric interest. 

The Profane Landscape by Sophy King [2007]

Proposition

‘Sacred’ is a human construct based on a deep-rooted human need. ‘Sacred’ is used by the powers that be to order and control society.

Profanity is the counterpoint, the subversive, the challenge.

When surreptitious ideas become common currency we undergo a paradigm shift and the Profane becomes the Sacred.

The Profane landscape;

 is not the romantic/historic but about environmental futures

 is not controlled and immutable but responsive and adaptable

 is not about individual goals but collective values

Intervention

Attempts to reverse climate change and sea level rise are futile. Instead of fighting to preserve our way of life, we must adapt as a means of survival.

The intervention begins with a waterway system. Drains are enlarged and developed to form a new water-based infrastructure.

The open farmland reverts to a semi-wild fen state. Along waterways a more agrarian area evolves, earthworks create a network of raised fields. Dikes are built to maintain a border between seawater and fresh. Each dike is higher than the last so the border moves in turn from one to the other as the sea level rises. A status quo develops within these areas until sudden catastrophic change occurs.

The whole site becomes a visual marker, a huge barometer of sea level change.

Blue Energy plants take advantage of the saline/fresh border to generate power.

Water is a fluid medium. The new geography is dynamic; territories need not maintain a fixed spatial relationship.

The landscape shifts and reforms as tides ebb and flow. Fields are activated as they reappear above the water

Mobility is integral to inhabiting this area; as the environment changes it is vital that habitations are adaptable and transferable. Micro piles alongside raised fields create potential foundations for moorings/stilts for amphibious dwellings, as the area is flooded by the river and subject to the tides.