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Interventions: Coastal Strategies to Resist, Retreat, and Adapt

Al-Timimi, Hannan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin161710880000413

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2021, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Rising sea levels caused by the warming of ocean waters, and freshwater from melting ice sheets threaten the California coast. If the global warming trend continues, about two-thirds of Southern California beaches would disappear. There are three possible solutions for endangered communities – retreat, resist, or adapt. This project will examine a combination of techniques that exist and are nonexistent on Beach-Barber Tract, one of La Jolla’s sixteen neighborhoods but could be implemented into Fiesta Island’s, Mission Bay Park. The proposition is that a combination of existing building solutions might be adapted. Those include walled courtyards varying from residential to civic scale, buildings raised on stilts or piloti, landscape-based solutions and hybrids between built form and landscape, including mat buildings. The mat building might be thought of as a constructed sponge, able to absorb storm surge and both accommodate existing use patterns and offer alternative use of urban space. Case studies of architectural and landscape techniques will support the design thesis and a range of types and urban organizations will be roughly calibrated to anticipate future storms. The proposal will provide both a theoretical and practical set of projections to redesign a more resilient coastal community.
Edward Mitchell, M.Arch (Committee Chair)
Vincent Sansalone, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
84 p.
Architecture
interventions; mat buildings; courtyard; artificial; hybrid; landscape

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  • Al-Timimi, H. (2021). Interventions: Coastal Strategies to Resist, Retreat, and Adapt [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin161710880000413

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Al-Timimi, Hannan. Interventions: Coastal Strategies to Resist, Retreat, and Adapt. 2021. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin161710880000413.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Al-Timimi, Hannan. "Interventions: Coastal Strategies to Resist, Retreat, and Adapt." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin161710880000413

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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