tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45557201052886674832024-03-13T22:20:57.934-07:00Thesis Research: Sea Level RiseMarina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-50502628699733530582013-02-25T09:59:00.000-08:002013-02-25T09:59:48.561-08:00article_walls to protect from water<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Historically, cities have used walls to keep out threats from enemies, intruders, and invaders. They were instituted as modes of militaristic self defense. Today, Hoboken is proposing walls to keep a new enemy out - water. Rather than providing piece-meal solutions for each individual structure, the mayor is proposing a more holistic approach. However, can a wall really be enough? Hear more <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/02/25/172858141/hoboken-mayor-proposes-universal-solution-to-flooding">here</a>. I believe the mayor's approach is a step in the right direction to think on a more urban scale. However, there may be a more suitable and radical solution that can occur through research and consultant design collaboration.</div>
Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-52431736226079254382013-01-15T09:58:00.001-08:002013-01-15T09:58:40.137-08:00article_re-thinking infrastructure with climate change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today's <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/01/15/169387059/utilities-contemplate-what-climate-change-means-to-them">interview </a>on NPR discusses the need to re-think infrastructure in our cities, specifically in New York. Con Edison, the most prevalent power supplier, says that the four of the five most devastating storms happened within the past 2.5 years. This frequency of storms suggest climate is actually changing. It is estimated that $800 million will be needed just to protect the 10 electric substations that flooded during Sandy.</div>
Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-47448775553074758882012-11-06T10:15:00.003-08:002012-11-06T10:15:40.295-08:00article_NPR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This recent <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/11/06/164362276/norfolk-va-puts-flooding-survival-plan-to-the-test">interview</a> by NPR discusses how Sea Level Rise will not treat all coastal cities equally. The eastern sea-board from North Carolina to Boston is in a more precarious location than the rest of the American East Coast. American cities like Norfolk are now beginning to consider protection methods, while the UK and the Netherlands have been taking action for the past decade.</div>
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This <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/sandy-climate-change_b_2042871.html">article</a> from the Huffington Post discusses recent natural disasters as being systemically caused by global warming.</div>
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Looking at the updates from Hurricane Sandy in New York City, the photographs appear surreal. Sea Level rise happened in real time and its aftermath to urban life is not yet clear. This type of flooding seems out of place amongst the Manhattan skyline. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/30/nyregion/hurricane-sandys-aftermath.html?ref=us">The New York Times</a> has infographics, maps, and images, to depict infrastructure failure and water inundation. Some of its imagery mimics that of a proposal on this blog from <a href="http://www.mchristodoulides.blogspot.com/2008/11/imagearo-city-of-future-entry.html">ARO</a> in 2008.<br />
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Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-8883085667153020882011-07-25T16:36:00.000-07:002011-07-25T16:50:27.391-07:00Climate Change and Cities<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxAELPq3mKI82rJl4IFFbIfThm7X91ePuMko6ghqCPqodOR-FqZGc3F_j80otOKwtI6mDU_1MJ-i-UxihF3aA16fJG1Vrjbo1JaNB9W0WUbXeK24UwvbVJbZlGNDQDtUO0bW5dANNYaSR3/s1600/9780061726941_custom.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxAELPq3mKI82rJl4IFFbIfThm7X91ePuMko6ghqCPqodOR-FqZGc3F_j80otOKwtI6mDU_1MJ-i-UxihF3aA16fJG1Vrjbo1JaNB9W0WUbXeK24UwvbVJbZlGNDQDtUO0bW5dANNYaSR3/s320/9780061726941_custom.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633439793227046082" /></a><br /><br />After a long hiatus, and a submitted thesis, I quickly wanted to post this <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/07/25/138601271/weather-warnings-for-a-climate-changed-planet">article </a>relevant to climate change. This NPR Fresh Air interview talks about how the temperatures in the past 30 years have increased, and what a more moist planet means. Author Heidi Cullen further discusses how this will deeply impact our cities and infrastructure. She specifies examples of New York, Miami, and Alaska. Very insightful and easy to understand, I highly recommend this interview.Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-62715392205263481562009-02-10T17:49:00.000-08:002009-02-10T17:57:18.426-08:00image_"floodhouse"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnjjCk7jW0qFh1Hh1lI6b2ubhLFn2izx2xuXr1v-OnyWh1qKo22Ayns3Qo7ZBREyPtUEoWrPCsjkbrFvVJ32UCGwS9Jq6OEyfW93Afx0f28efT8GU9ATtTv-TGODHqAwDjfYAYtDAfOCJ3/s1600-h/flood1.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnjjCk7jW0qFh1Hh1lI6b2ubhLFn2izx2xuXr1v-OnyWh1qKo22Ayns3Qo7ZBREyPtUEoWrPCsjkbrFvVJ32UCGwS9Jq6OEyfW93Afx0f28efT8GU9ATtTv-TGODHqAwDjfYAYtDAfOCJ3/s320/flood1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301351302125361170" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwgLR-h93J_F7811hj-k9y2EPhsFcVTtZEzsfcf4rm5PfNak8sxX9zvQu8AZ1YhCuJ3_IGUdeqmhctuw1VYV0TpnXoxPM094ycQtQ057qiiIGAsBh_QPaZwoI6Vqh-AhhP4RJdqEVvwD6/s1600-h/flood4.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwgLR-h93J_F7811hj-k9y2EPhsFcVTtZEzsfcf4rm5PfNak8sxX9zvQu8AZ1YhCuJ3_IGUdeqmhctuw1VYV0TpnXoxPM094ycQtQ057qiiIGAsBh_QPaZwoI6Vqh-AhhP4RJdqEVvwD6/s320/flood4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301351301090819810" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Disaster-proof house designed by the Powerhouse Company. "Its outer walls are solid and round, so waves can thrust around the house gracefully." I am not sure how well this would work. However, it is one of the most unusual forms I have seen for dealing with this. For more info and photos, click <a href="http://www.powerhouse-company.com/flood.html">here</a>.</div>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-82698187947803564672009-02-08T14:19:00.000-08:002009-02-10T17:57:54.562-08:00image_art installation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpIe51ts24mIQJToSdv67SSp2uGtwjdspf4_irWu9sT9NNqKSLsCV5HkPSbF0nJ4ZnSlQq-ZDVONZhV8JV2vwdOuh6yzrxBdr1E60ZakjNAF_RbXYLfbYxdWHtLeZF6-nXSlipWK1WBRO/s1600-h/3261255588_d1150b6595_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpIe51ts24mIQJToSdv67SSp2uGtwjdspf4_irWu9sT9NNqKSLsCV5HkPSbF0nJ4ZnSlQq-ZDVONZhV8JV2vwdOuh6yzrxBdr1E60ZakjNAF_RbXYLfbYxdWHtLeZF6-nXSlipWK1WBRO/s320/3261255588_d1150b6595_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300557279872467474" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5SGmj-LrJLAVYe1JtXB9fXNnmGZ4AnSglYj5AbdKUJ7u5PkQ3girnw_K4Bn02YmuX2tNG10QkZzo0IA0BGCpU9NRF-xftfQXGA8j0k5VrH3uGdEI3wBdvBrrJaC7r7XkcDdO7pr7AAqL1/s1600-h/3261032592_73ed8f4c01_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5SGmj-LrJLAVYe1JtXB9fXNnmGZ4AnSglYj5AbdKUJ7u5PkQ3girnw_K4Bn02YmuX2tNG10QkZzo0IA0BGCpU9NRF-xftfQXGA8j0k5VrH3uGdEI3wBdvBrrJaC7r7XkcDdO7pr7AAqL1/s320/3261032592_73ed8f4c01_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300557278920473922" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Rising sea levels mapped on existing buildings in Bristol, England, to be produce by Chris Bodle for his <a href="http://watermarksproject.org/">Watermarks </a>project. For more information, click <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/watermarks.html">here</a>.</div>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-35179208865559628582009-02-01T21:53:00.001-08:002009-02-01T21:58:19.279-08:00image_dutch water purification plant<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07sgrGLT56O3B_kerlg0CdrOhmxnh-3LM3CSNISm8_XXLrgUMIRfJx0cCJ3EgCdxI6w1C3kF4soqRqvC59TSh04OpbqpXrDQEv9Ey1FaZBmhTPzqv8zpmHml-j0Xx6RrYolZGGhPJte1K/s1600-h/02.06.05_02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07sgrGLT56O3B_kerlg0CdrOhmxnh-3LM3CSNISm8_XXLrgUMIRfJx0cCJ3EgCdxI6w1C3kF4soqRqvC59TSh04OpbqpXrDQEv9Ey1FaZBmhTPzqv8zpmHml-j0Xx6RrYolZGGhPJte1K/s320/02.06.05_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298074457778448530" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A Water Purification Plant built in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1973-1977 by Wim Quist Wintermans Architekten, b.v. It symbolically uses a form of water drops. For more information, and other interesting water projects visit <a href="http://www.h2olland.nl/index.asp">h2olland</a>.<br /></div>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-48928441036261410642009-02-01T14:02:00.000-08:002009-02-01T14:38:48.689-08:00thoughts_desalination plants<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn1tSLit3QVKQ4kZIo5HhODSRALWC975V_klaTP3tP872OnEAi39Ld-HY4DxR7n1RZaVjXhjbpeKM85fbZoz75dk75XfM3KydjHk8LrrL2q32wqcuj5U5bk4_cFRqyApMS3GA4PvRKV5h5/s1600-h/Shevchenko_BN350_desalinati.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn1tSLit3QVKQ4kZIo5HhODSRALWC975V_klaTP3tP872OnEAi39Ld-HY4DxR7n1RZaVjXhjbpeKM85fbZoz75dk75XfM3KydjHk8LrrL2q32wqcuj5U5bk4_cFRqyApMS3GA4PvRKV5h5/s320/Shevchenko_BN350_desalinati.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297957346427770050" border="0" /></a>Could my program selection have to do with creating a floating barge that functions as a water desalination plant? For more information about desalination plants, click<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination">here</a>. This infrastructure investment could be beneficial in the Bay Area as our water is imported across the state. According to "Water supplies for the Bay Area" <a href="http://www.abag.ca.gov/water/?cat=6">website</a>, "we live in a desert magically transformed into an oasis via billions of gallons of water over the last hundred years." This is made possible because the region "imports more than 65% of its water through the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, the Mokelumne Aqueduct, the State Water Project and the Contra Costa Canal (part of the Central Valley Project)" (discussed in this <a href="http://aquafornia.com/where-does-californias-water-come-from">website</a> with more detail).<br /></div>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-63950049285529115722009-02-01T13:09:00.000-08:002009-02-01T13:17:37.754-08:00thesis site photos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLF4omGEtjVLj9o1BbC1Y6IheFnw6ACm03Akxyr3LwLcUakhrvktf8jr-6oVivCigdNe-yJO4vOsDBICjJqAuGbSvkHA9qKlTIF7rpQ2jPbLD08zxLSmuztPHigB3Ga3mt5lyQp7OhLNR/s1600-h/DSC01109.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLF4omGEtjVLj9o1BbC1Y6IheFnw6ACm03Akxyr3LwLcUakhrvktf8jr-6oVivCigdNe-yJO4vOsDBICjJqAuGbSvkHA9qKlTIF7rpQ2jPbLD08zxLSmuztPHigB3Ga3mt5lyQp7OhLNR/s320/DSC01109.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297940574852777378" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzeM0Ht-CtYLasGEK40KtHLjiiW1QaPI1YJKmohNEIlKWFTx-CXJ8Zqua1xFsVUY6jh70nkNUFJk0LqUUMOO11fWz7qW-1eGLt78YEF4kehV4o9pSlYLo20EopLgDW4dW96MVr3MQmA56L/s1600-h/DSC01113.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNKODW661de0weWbzUpQEopISnMCuZsj4o-FSorYSr73e6AvFaVItSIekqA1NrDIyeYzVklhWmtVhDf2PPeUt5oUO7wyX8RHtDH2YtnflAjMKE5G11R9AHOzp4M1HD__FcjcSEA9SeCplm/s320/DSC01092.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297940000459001730" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zTvYKV3bgdu0lHcVKfp8E3afS-Cr0aFhxEe_P0VQ8PHG1lSDVfhDjm-oN-KnSsc9dgxU0VBMoHm77SqhFwxTLq5KlWcr0WCjguo77qRqPWRFHoWA0yn4bjPkyCA2mzVrgyWBE7leGWjb/s1600-h/DSC01083.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zTvYKV3bgdu0lHcVKfp8E3afS-Cr0aFhxEe_P0VQ8PHG1lSDVfhDjm-oN-KnSsc9dgxU0VBMoHm77SqhFwxTLq5KlWcr0WCjguo77qRqPWRFHoWA0yn4bjPkyCA2mzVrgyWBE7leGWjb/s320/DSC01083.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297939998035774210" border="0" /></a><br />photos taken from Port of Oakland.Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-24075741000016601332009-01-25T12:40:00.000-08:002009-01-25T12:46:57.593-08:00image_makoko slum<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxI13NVY7FH2oapvqrCaA0LB3ZlbJc2BJU3gIJFBLaU5bnn2k2C-CGYjy5MAGLOdsEiOK3xqBmvlAV2JiZ4Xa5uSkDjsJOM7oKnlDnjLO2tbRbomS0BhiH-sfIYuPmx8xmXANwqC4pJDlr/s1600-h/jv20b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCyhrqIvX0PrdfAUAk_CWdd4ZlB1aBrrXmhmjbrzsU9AMQmHZY8ERlMXCIUM5AOI-LpWxzaNsNWfSSXGgzBkF9dnIeQ9OBjqh1YdsSH_2SwCmnnmAaIOeOJjdZQNvZY3-q-QmjsuuZGS7F/s320/jv7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295334079042812306" border="0" /></a>Makoko is a very dangerous slum in Lagos built on the water. For more information click <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,,1430810,00.html">here </a>to see John Vidal's photo journal.Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-9430223737330209672009-01-25T12:30:00.000-08:002009-01-25T12:32:11.557-08:00image_hyrdro-manhattan<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFfxvImddRpcQALKidGPa94mLqGCrTJ8nrzpXLZDvoSVO0FqyL-ATcmyjMG6nEzDkeAUWHFwjciVuBgMYaqf5gTu1f4vCZN5156zvmoSOXehIoqmrQkhx0LQ63xMKer-GywHV3x35QJBP3/s1600-h/3207491756_05dc553dea_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 113px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFfxvImddRpcQALKidGPa94mLqGCrTJ8nrzpXLZDvoSVO0FqyL-ATcmyjMG6nEzDkeAUWHFwjciVuBgMYaqf5gTu1f4vCZN5156zvmoSOXehIoqmrQkhx0LQ63xMKer-GywHV3x35QJBP3/s320/3207491756_05dc553dea_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295331690504482146" border="0" /></a>"Waterscrapers" proposed for a thesis project at Rice. Click <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/hydro-manhattan.html">here </a>for more.Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-61623776371223066882009-01-20T11:21:00.000-08:002009-01-20T11:34:53.249-08:00image_floating structures<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhND0SlFfdMn1U93gF_M1HoPSNl0lsvZFnRGJJoZ-_ZxZ1dfTeXABFoxNEFknSpDpffdULB7Bl_X7DLjfMyJBn1BdTBBehLLLAH2MxcaQmSTI3pgO9p7DlRifGEyihLXE_jHLPUs9g_Bs_q/s1600-h/hamilton-north.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhND0SlFfdMn1U93gF_M1HoPSNl0lsvZFnRGJJoZ-_ZxZ1dfTeXABFoxNEFknSpDpffdULB7Bl_X7DLjfMyJBn1BdTBBehLLLAH2MxcaQmSTI3pgO9p7DlRifGEyihLXE_jHLPUs9g_Bs_q/s320/hamilton-north.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293458470716148498" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMkAbP_bwur4sm42-3iaKOZ9KMANUNSttv7M7_4aE8nt-q0rsyob8on3-xg_rO38x-yYDsc5CB4mFKI1jIRGJ8ungSIKRTPrbiQY1eLG5a5TgXajTzvLHuMK0V82iOeDymmNolO-DLtTiC/s1600-h/CPV-Hi-res..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMkAbP_bwur4sm42-3iaKOZ9KMANUNSttv7M7_4aE8nt-q0rsyob8on3-xg_rO38x-yYDsc5CB4mFKI1jIRGJ8ungSIKRTPrbiQY1eLG5a5TgXajTzvLHuMK0V82iOeDymmNolO-DLtTiC/s320/CPV-Hi-res..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293458465967177266" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizZez_UNd8iM44cRGvejq8WYn-SkuKVI2k8aKrf0YHzqTF1I4NPfm8oRW_iEPkZUPIyWGAut66H6yomzDLZ4AN5qL2pjchUJUTh5lYbEHT9-wGYAN1_fIGaHsxDlstnWIRjQ2H3axxfBpv/s1600-h/concept02.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 111px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizZez_UNd8iM44cRGvejq8WYn-SkuKVI2k8aKrf0YHzqTF1I4NPfm8oRW_iEPkZUPIyWGAut66H6yomzDLZ4AN5qL2pjchUJUTh5lYbEHT9-wGYAN1_fIGaHsxDlstnWIRjQ2H3axxfBpv/s320/concept02.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293458463599421346" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6rSj5RB8v-p1JjG7c8PvMNQtE5gV8ZW_uzDk65B0jmP7Vpo3IKTDfbdI8-VI8rEZHLk0-j7tXBUiSgnfh7QJeeplH8-luHsp5-bVeqz9gIS1n6T1rH6imIPqkt2_T9J-uj6v4y_GBQAQE/s1600-h/attenuators10.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6rSj5RB8v-p1JjG7c8PvMNQtE5gV8ZW_uzDk65B0jmP7Vpo3IKTDfbdI8-VI8rEZHLk0-j7tXBUiSgnfh7QJeeplH8-luHsp5-bVeqz9gIS1n6T1rH6imIPqkt2_T9J-uj6v4y_GBQAQE/s320/attenuators10.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293458458827946210" border="0" /></a>A blogger, "Mermaid," recommended this <a href="http://www.floatingstructures.com/concepts.htm">website </a>to me. This website shows projects by IMF, International Marine Floating Systems, Inc., which specializes on water real estate. I particularly find the transport of these systems by cargo ship of interest. I am thinking of using the Oakland estuary as my site for my design proposal, which is already a major West Coast port.</div>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-67158583820677884322009-01-19T22:27:00.000-08:002009-01-19T22:45:43.144-08:00images_sea city<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5SPFl_b9Iw0G21dbb1yAxm4AXVOo0KR1i9kGnH6sCe0hSKw0S169_UPSXEDV6nwev_LXTajtOZukburO5f0fDmeY_T0KfWVVPsv56YDdztinDwqbK2eJSUBxZM-YR7wIOL7sBANt4jmTo/s1600-h/sea-city-4.GIF"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 191px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5SPFl_b9Iw0G21dbb1yAxm4AXVOo0KR1i9kGnH6sCe0hSKw0S169_UPSXEDV6nwev_LXTajtOZukburO5f0fDmeY_T0KfWVVPsv56YDdztinDwqbK2eJSUBxZM-YR7wIOL7sBANt4jmTo/s320/sea-city-4.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293259468838391650" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZY0DXWkvJ95pmS-CgI17ohVLxLkmE1idqncutwSbWjoEp9lZsukFEIkCmV_dJTxrMEy0fX4xAo6-G5pX1W_Wyn6VX1Kay3WSNyCC6vcdqnS5NECh2nGdUtKc0Fl-QhXnBtPJOJEsNbTqA/s1600-h/sea-city-2.GIF"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 135px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZY0DXWkvJ95pmS-CgI17ohVLxLkmE1idqncutwSbWjoEp9lZsukFEIkCmV_dJTxrMEy0fX4xAo6-G5pX1W_Wyn6VX1Kay3WSNyCC6vcdqnS5NECh2nGdUtKc0Fl-QhXnBtPJOJEsNbTqA/s320/sea-city-2.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293259471050301282" border="0" /></a>Architects propose a fantastical land of Sea City circa 1971. For more information click <a href="http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/%7Ebat/sea-city.html">here</a>. "Looking at the models, our thoughts catapult us into the future - to the day when Sea City could be a reality ..."<br /><br />Today, almost forty years later, we still toy with similar ideas...<br />Click <a href="http://www.futurebydesign.org/citysea.html">here</a> for present day proposals for cities of the sea, with "mariculture + fishfarming", and "off-shore living."<br /><br />thanks, Ceara!<br /></div><p> </p>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-59902119874830540442009-01-19T10:00:00.000-08:002009-01-19T22:43:16.965-08:00proposal_12.12.08<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtyyKjsLpVzXU6wLEsH-NhuA-4RmZZd15jrjDcrjsGLziDQMK5RaS9nJAB37Gpzuz5-fhJYn_lEPJti4oLta_zTEHtcnd1PmRk9APf1A-DVvhxXqWD-zrw5zYtAEGJsqPQgdVHS_KTd__/s1600-h/misrach_salton_sea.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtyyKjsLpVzXU6wLEsH-NhuA-4RmZZd15jrjDcrjsGLziDQMK5RaS9nJAB37Gpzuz5-fhJYn_lEPJti4oLta_zTEHtcnd1PmRk9APf1A-DVvhxXqWD-zrw5zYtAEGJsqPQgdVHS_KTd__/s320/misrach_salton_sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293070902795555394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">(Misrach Salton Sea photo)</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >+SEA CHANGE:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">the inevitable rise of water and the rethinking of urban coastal conditions</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“While impelled by necessity, the first Venetians did not go to those marshes so long ago empty-handed, without the benefit of civilization. They brought with them three things: ideas, techniques, and a perspective of the world--how nature works, how people might change nature, and how the world in the future might be different from the world they had known in the past. Today, we are in a position in relation to the environment of our entire planet similar to that of the ancient settlers of Venice in relation to the marshes of the Adriatic. We see problems shifting before us whose solutions are unclear” (Botkin 4).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">abstract</span><br />The world’s sea level is rising. This is an undeniable fact. This condition is not new, and has been gradually occurring since the last ice age. Until recently, the rate of change was incremental enough that natural systems were able to adapt (Barnett, et al 14). Sea level has been rising at a rate of 1.8mm per year for the past century, and has increased to a rate of 3.1mm/year from 1993-2000. Global warming is not a threat in the distant future, but rather threatens the present with its continuous gradual increase in water. Its damage has already begun. In 2007, rising sea level swallowed the first human populated island of Lochara (site). This is only the first.<br />The problem with rising sea levels is not predicting whether it will happen, but rather predicting the rate at which it will occur. At present, global temperature increases affect the melting of major ice sheets. This process accelerates sea level rise worldwide. Scientists have multiple models working to determine the timing and quantity of water. However, they vary greatly. Moderate estimates suggest that sea level will increase by one foot by 2050, with an accelerated rate of change to follow—most likely 3 feet by 2100. The predictions tend to describe the rate of change as exponential rather than linear. Disagreements occur in determining the steepness of the curve. The affects of change will also vary drastically as some portions of the world’s continents are subsiding, some are rising, and coastal edges fluctuate according to changing tides (Barnet et al 16). This makes both preventative and reactionary measures difficult. The scale of impact is indeterminable, and the problems may be too devstating to wait to react to.<br />Moreover, the threat does not limit itself to the distant islands off the coast of Papa New Guinea, but rather threatens every place of habitation in close proximity to a body of water. Given that water takes up 71% of the Earth’s surface, and most urban areas were settled on water for fortification, production, trade, and natural resources, the threat becomes gargantuan in scale. It does not limit itself to Amsterdam, Venice, and New Orleans, but the majority of cities everywhere. In fact, a projection of the world’s population by Doxiades for the end of the 21st century shows the majority of population concentrated on the coasts.<br />This thesis begins with the premise that sea levels are rising, and the majority of cities are anchored to bodies of water, and therefore should use the impending change as a catalyst for an alternate form of urbanization. Historically, engineering technologies always pose methods of keeping water out. The scale and vigor of combat can increase to attack some of the most grueling flooding conditions. However, what happens if the problem is simply restated? Instead of keeping water out of habitation, people can begin to inhabit water. This thesis poses an urban condition on the water. In this thesis, water plays the paradoxical role of both the enemy and the only hope for survival. In its manifestation, the design poses a functional way of living on water, but hopes to also emphasize the beauty and playful nature of water. Water in all its ferocity still remains sublime. As the most threatening substance, it is simultaneously of utmost beauty.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">context</span><br />This section discusses relevant and related precedents to the issues of water, urbanism, and sea-level rising. I will group projects as existing cities on water, and projects or mechanisms for inhabiting the water.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">water cities</span><br />There are numerous cities that continuously combat water. These “water cities,” as I define them, already positioned in naturally unsuitable locations on water or below sea level face constant calibration with the ever-present threat. In particular, Venice, the famous city built on the water, has been paramount in discussion for all other cities that deal with water. It is the marker of success. Everyone references it. In Venice, the Tourist Maze, Davis and Marvin state, “Venice remains the ultimate realization of this particular urban vision: so much so that no one would ever think to call it ‘the Amsterdam of the Adriatic.’ Rather, it is other cities that are, or aspire to be, ‘the Venice of the North,’ ‘...of the East,’ ‘...of Asia,’ and finally, ‘...of California,’ which is, of course, simply Venice, California.’ However, this city is an old model, constantly struggling against rising sea levels to preserve its museum-like presence (144). In Venice, Against the Sea, John Keahey references Professor Rinaldo on as saying, “Venice is like a person trying to run forward [by] looking backwards: “[look at] how good we were; how great we were!” Venice is trapped between a huge past and no future.” This implies that Venice’s relationship to the water is an outdated model. It was revolutionary in its implementation, but currently struggles just to subside (261). This poses the question that I hope to explore for my thesis: what is the city built on water of the future?<br />Discordant Harmonies, a book devoted to studying new ecology for the 21st century, also opens with a discussion of Venice. The epigraph of my essay comes from this book. Botkin uses a photograph of Santa Maria della Salute to begin discussion. The foundation of the church was said to be made by driving 1,106,657 trunks of alder, oak and larch into the muddy lagoon to build a foundation. Submerging these tree trunks under water protected them from air, and therefore decaying. Invading Lombards destroying the Roman Empire forced Venetians to move to the defensible marshlands. The Venetians faced the problem of stabilizing the ground, and had to use their available ideas and technologies to survive (4). This still serves as the foundation today. What are the ideas, techniques, and perspective of the world today that we can use to address urbanism and rising sea-levels?<br />Other notable water cities include Tenochtitlan, located in present day Mexico City, Bangkok, and Amsterdam. Tenochtitlan and its chinampas were a floating city on a lake for the Aztec Indians. The city was comprised of “narrow, rectangular beds or platforms, which are constructed by alternating layers of lake mud and thick mats of decaying vegetation (cespedes) over shallow lake bottoms, or in marshy zones” (Calnek 105). Water became controlled in such a way to be inhabited and produce agriculture through the chinampas. Another city whose relationship to the water is no longer as apparent is Bangkok. Today its system of canals has largely been converted to roads and sewage, still contains other water dependent activities, such as its floating markets, ie Damnoen Saduak.<br />On the other hand, Amsterdam is a city who is very conscious of its relationship to the water. Constantly striving for innovation and methods of serving its growing population, Amsterdam continuously reinvents itself as a mechanism of survival. There are many contemporary solutions to be discussed in the next section.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">inhabiting water</span><br />Beginning with the Netherlands, many innovative projects introduce unique ways of inhabiting the water. In particular, a new urban project, IJmeer, is currently under construction in a lake outside of Amsterdam that is the construction site of a new district. With the inevitable problems of flooding, yet lack of land in Amsterdam, this project hopes to create a new place for living. It reclaims seven islands with dredged sand, provides 18,000 single-family homes as well as apartment buildings, schools, office complexes, city parks, and beaches, for 45,000 residents. This community also includes more than 200 floating homes. The Netherlands is creating a district that provides housing on water, rather than fiercely combating it.<br />Moreover, an entire architectural practice, Waterstudio.nl, is devoted to the relationship of the built environment to water in the Netherlands. In an interview, the partner Koen Olthuis says, “despite our civilization’s history of trying to drain and fight against wet landscapes for the past thousand years, our best move for the future would be to ‘let water in and even make friends with the water’” (independent.co.uk). Olthuis suggests a manner of inhabiting water. His firm studies the relationship to water at the building scale and the urban scale. Projects include floating communities, homes on stilts, and floating buildings—both commercial and residential, and even floating barges for parking.<br />Inhabitation of water exists outside of the Netherlands, and can even be found locally in the houseboats of Sausalito. This community of homes grew largely out of post-WWII housing demands. These neighborhoods and building type vary in terms of size, materials, and foundation. Some are stacked on floating logs; others have foundations that emulate the form of boats. Houseboats offer another method of inhabiting water.<br />There have also been a series of design proposals I have collected exploring the relationship of rising sea-levels. Architecture firm ARO of NYC proposed “vanes,” vertical pier-like structure that are inhabitable, for their City of the Future competition entry. In Unsolicited Architecture, Boston’s waterfront becomes entirely reconsidered, with special consideration for one building. I hope to continue studying the context, and gathering precedents to help me make informed design decisions.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">design proposition</span><br />For my thesis I propose taking a coastal American city, and designing for the inevitable rise in sea level.</span><br /></div>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-68013033231717753802008-12-15T19:39:00.000-08:002008-12-15T19:43:46.744-08:00image_new orleans proposal<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLtrgWqtFD1kl1dRcMRJRi9ZVMwMPjueH_uzI4k3efLqn5YSjD2HNBoC-ZRmXfjkAgjSDCHhkjMqYAHXzrwmce1fq_uOUHHbDKJptwbR5dmkoxH_GGLFYifZz9ywgeb5ZsNusRThH430b3/s1600-h/T-12070141270.19481900.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 208px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLtrgWqtFD1kl1dRcMRJRi9ZVMwMPjueH_uzI4k3efLqn5YSjD2HNBoC-ZRmXfjkAgjSDCHhkjMqYAHXzrwmce1fq_uOUHHbDKJptwbR5dmkoxH_GGLFYifZz9ywgeb5ZsNusRThH430b3/s320/T-12070141270.19481900.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280227677864735954" border="0" /></a>Harvard School of Design project. "Floating on a Sinking City." See <a href="http://72.167.142.101/article.php?article_id=58">link.</a><br /><br />(thanks, Cutul)Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-24661186776950861752008-12-14T16:08:00.001-08:002008-12-14T19:43:26.923-08:00image_world ocean<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6dh-bMgCd0rIQt_dIe7dh_vzoen9yg1imyiCW56gSBfT8AxJiBkixc42HREM23Ju7dEcgHPbTwSLA6uAWTZ1CQgzNgq83sYikdDKyDI4PV8QFeJckCTLxjzSIcl7hrG_xNbN6sj5QT5H/s1600-h/Untitled-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT6dh-bMgCd0rIQt_dIe7dh_vzoen9yg1imyiCW56gSBfT8AxJiBkixc42HREM23Ju7dEcgHPbTwSLA6uAWTZ1CQgzNgq83sYikdDKyDI4PV8QFeJckCTLxjzSIcl7hrG_xNbN6sj5QT5H/s320/Untitled-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279802991103871538" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQiyyNDv_y-SFOs8EGowQ8yZt55jnDmuy8zEyixK3zt0mO2tBCe5I6RGbAtowRBHwsU_sLuXYtd476NE3hMdszT7YeLMJ-Wl__aDmiyik8YRJPmcBLsm7D0QvJ4UVGIciWYxLxyxxe0lE/s1600-h/Ocean_gravity_map.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 189px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQiyyNDv_y-SFOs8EGowQ8yZt55jnDmuy8zEyixK3zt0mO2tBCe5I6RGbAtowRBHwsU_sLuXYtd476NE3hMdszT7YeLMJ-Wl__aDmiyik8YRJPmcBLsm7D0QvJ4UVGIciWYxLxyxxe0lE/s320/Ocean_gravity_map.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279802365153052162" border="0" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Ocean">wikipedia</a> images.Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-75078512315013155302008-12-12T11:24:00.001-08:002008-12-12T11:28:34.220-08:00image_tiber river<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_TKFhDWq5msDDOWn5zkIPncEX4lRmr-3Ou7JlU9AH3zb2eQzyi5eM21DBgL93ipXxmdiqQIlXVVhA5D8_12Dl1ErsW5D2OxT1uHpxee1ZMOVhD1LSafyljXWsl8PR6Lm9SVymLLrp2KJ0/s1600-h/italy.span.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh827CHpauTnPjJCOc_HDo32gsEwWs_qq0rF5z_2Bx-n23PGOr7pVXbSuUAW4RyT5ilVUyq1GMGMuonQoDFkUc1i2yOb3aqFS3DeV-Fns_jtpeMd7f9Va9o1F521XA43FmcUgkMyQ7FkCuT/s320/26144780.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278987010640497282" border="0" /></a><br />The Tiber River in Italy is overfilling its banks. Read more in the NYTimes <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2008/12/12/world/international-us-italy-weather.html?_r=1&hp">article</a>.Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-90633690994026889062008-12-09T22:08:00.000-08:002008-12-09T22:26:38.192-08:00image_waterstudio.nl<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiax-gaO6gCJzSE2EgWxpZPckOnpZdTlc_IncUizfZa8RVWMafzxEPGRk3cHp6ch8EIpfYoi01xkJnEd4e83yHUG9AwbkpNtPfsA8j_kTT8SkyudDbHkcRI-_Klegipi9q7etGth71vF80I/s1600-h/waterstudiofloriade.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 153px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiax-gaO6gCJzSE2EgWxpZPckOnpZdTlc_IncUizfZa8RVWMafzxEPGRk3cHp6ch8EIpfYoi01xkJnEd4e83yHUG9AwbkpNtPfsA8j_kTT8SkyudDbHkcRI-_Klegipi9q7etGth71vF80I/s320/waterstudiofloriade.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278040322804481394" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTqig0yc6BknILodpad3j4oWdMmNK-ujKuKFaCvGyeLvFrlbnYmHCP1oN-rDEhC4Ls3f87H69NxtSho4MUXVmcActQdQbDfl1FQ8py-Bsea0BwQ0atH1Mkgm8Krvj1JBQqmmfFizE2q5B4/s1600-h/waterstudiopolehouses.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTqig0yc6BknILodpad3j4oWdMmNK-ujKuKFaCvGyeLvFrlbnYmHCP1oN-rDEhC4Ls3f87H69NxtSho4MUXVmcActQdQbDfl1FQ8py-Bsea0BwQ0atH1Mkgm8Krvj1JBQqmmfFizE2q5B4/s320/waterstudiopolehouses.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278040076326562802" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguzoW6OJdSTvlOYzrlvcw7VdtSaOFcqyNTXn7GwXfwVa_XqG4VVEufjlQZ45WhbzDknNdUuSd9tb_avQmVBdvjnHtNj_pEHyJQXUs7EROS0IMS47B-bldgPRWNs9J77jlJtZ8LSDn50PQB/s1600-h/Untitled-7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguzoW6OJdSTvlOYzrlvcw7VdtSaOFcqyNTXn7GwXfwVa_XqG4VVEufjlQZ45WhbzDknNdUuSd9tb_avQmVBdvjnHtNj_pEHyJQXUs7EROS0IMS47B-bldgPRWNs9J77jlJtZ8LSDn50PQB/s320/Untitled-7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278040076086935730" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYQzKUuE81_e8zjOzboObXxN-v1enYyzusWwwpu1rX02webxldupUuy7-QXfyneSw1npz5w2-6maqXtyMRixbmzAybuO5haDDLbbk_-FFPEuF5sCo4vosbC4muH2xnk4xAT0kMnZxNoaN2/s1600-h/Untitled-5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYQzKUuE81_e8zjOzboObXxN-v1enYyzusWwwpu1rX02webxldupUuy7-QXfyneSw1npz5w2-6maqXtyMRixbmzAybuO5haDDLbbk_-FFPEuF5sCo4vosbC4muH2xnk4xAT0kMnZxNoaN2/s320/Untitled-5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278040071198994018" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzoFZlS4x6711Wun6UdlnGdZjECsSu5R4UVFzfEEJNvE2c03JZdXTCcFwpfPHIWRLc6iplwoqD1HGZnzS5JSGdpvMa78QdHcmSsMOELmsfsXsK223fvtfYRsBN5br0MX-0Q4wHpfgfU8XN/s1600-h/Untitled-4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 131px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzoFZlS4x6711Wun6UdlnGdZjECsSu5R4UVFzfEEJNvE2c03JZdXTCcFwpfPHIWRLc6iplwoqD1HGZnzS5JSGdpvMa78QdHcmSsMOELmsfsXsK223fvtfYRsBN5br0MX-0Q4wHpfgfU8XN/s320/Untitled-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278040074918933794" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipAPq-8RAG9YYcKt-Qe2xayQY9q25H0hHqrFsO3TDDEACgFkYQEDh2tIZet5Cp1zNO3py6ZRko5fsjza92RtNcA373udI4t7fTy0um8krmNXDnemUpHpr7hFNzqXsrR0Qcj0Hv29qcpLQE/s1600-h/Untitled-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipAPq-8RAG9YYcKt-Qe2xayQY9q25H0hHqrFsO3TDDEACgFkYQEDh2tIZet5Cp1zNO3py6ZRko5fsjza92RtNcA373udI4t7fTy0um8krmNXDnemUpHpr7hFNzqXsrR0Qcj0Hv29qcpLQE/s320/Untitled-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278040058882023218" border="0" /></a>Turns out there is someone already working on my thesis project. In the Netherlands. These images all come from Waterstudio.nl's website. Click here for an <a href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2006/08/29/interview-koen-olthius-of-waterstudionl/">interview</a>, and here for the firm's <a href="http://www.waterstudio.nl/en">website</a>. Wow. This is great.<br /><br />quote from interview:<br />"Koen Olthuis of Waterstudio.nl says that despite our civilization’s history of trying to drain and fight against wet landscapes for the past thousand years, our best move for the future would be to “let water in and even make friends with the water”."<br /><br />How can I think about these issues differently? What will the integration of floating, water-friendly structures be into the existing urban fabric? <br />How do you deal with the incremental change of rising sea-levels? What can stay? What should be preserved? What's safe? What needs to be entirely rethought?<br /><br />Thanks, Nicolette!</div>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-25696992939101707372008-12-09T20:59:00.001-08:002008-12-09T21:33:00.042-08:00image_nytimes preservation predicament<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqSb8MjV12JLfoDKf6t0GmnlBNoY5de4rVDjwrLUBJL7qWArpNvCG3BdmHcVxz4BX9BG22v49LY2DY7x1LzSJK4JvGQ_Nt_6e9gsiDFBrvehLAVtGmjCchNNTgnzbiRgDooAzx0EWRT7dm/s1600-h/0129-sci-HABITAT.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 141px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqSb8MjV12JLfoDKf6t0GmnlBNoY5de4rVDjwrLUBJL7qWArpNvCG3BdmHcVxz4BX9BG22v49LY2DY7x1LzSJK4JvGQ_Nt_6e9gsiDFBrvehLAVtGmjCchNNTgnzbiRgDooAzx0EWRT7dm/s320/0129-sci-HABITAT.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278021787534613506" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhxH5TEoyZ3pLgH07sIpkidRqjeQ-xWvtR_jmzZ-hKPgqsKGTTb33JEiBB18Xg9n32rsSOWKOOd5WbD60gb3TbKkyn5hGCvYqJeCmKwBqtrtgmaUODjkhbQ_nVqTk4wcOmB6QHNk_VzwT/s1600-h/habi_slide_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhxH5TEoyZ3pLgH07sIpkidRqjeQ-xWvtR_jmzZ-hKPgqsKGTTb33JEiBB18Xg9n32rsSOWKOOd5WbD60gb3TbKkyn5hGCvYqJeCmKwBqtrtgmaUODjkhbQ_nVqTk4wcOmB6QHNk_VzwT/s320/habi_slide_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278021798230168210" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJNWiQFd4BaBjBCOxveLkwVVG1a3Aqgy4Oc6KbEvVdbjsJ1Q196HYGAw37nEUo4HQFb2BTWb4_cqrn0ECnFkTui-f8eJF7ZP36JJmfeqBXNFb6ClHrD3zBwsZShMa4j6NnSoZzfDNZACJN/s1600-h/habi_slide_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJNWiQFd4BaBjBCOxveLkwVVG1a3Aqgy4Oc6KbEvVdbjsJ1Q196HYGAw37nEUo4HQFb2BTWb4_cqrn0ECnFkTui-f8eJF7ZP36JJmfeqBXNFb6ClHrD3zBwsZShMa4j6NnSoZzfDNZACJN/s320/habi_slide_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278021795079763218" border="0" /></a>With rising sea levels, urban edges are at risk. A NYTimes <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/science/earth/29habi.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&sq=sea%20level%20rise&st=nyt&scp=4">article</a> goes into depth describing what this means in terms of preservation of biologically rich landscapes. Wetlands are largely at risk as they lack an ability to move inland due to the existing conditions of the built environment. As are islands. Ecologists and conservation ecologists ponder how landscapes already under preservation will survive climatic changes. Can they survive? Coral reefs have already been devastated.<br />Moreover, "Others worry about efforts to restore the fresh water flow of the Everglades, given that much of it will be under water as sea level rises. Some geologists say it may be advisable to abandon efforts to preserve some fragile coastal barrier islands and focus instead on allowing coastal marshes to migrate inland, as sea level rises."<br />This article seems to be in conversation with the introduction of <a href="http://mchristodoulides.blogspot.com/2008/12/researchdiscordant-harmonies.html">Discordant Harmonies</a>. Do we fall under the belief that "nature knows best," or do we understand and realize that the environmental history of the world has been one of continuous and incremental change? And if so, where can we position ourselves within this dialogue?<br /><br />(thanks for the article, Ivan)<br /></div>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-61369651214690497842008-12-09T20:29:00.000-08:002008-12-09T20:40:14.392-08:00image_hydra house<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNAZOX74-tqSwMXsV5X2DafZ5ccFlrOAWP1eZ5JWSAJ2GiltJV6xAjQGS6-CxjGCSqBJti0Vp3PvjCibWKg_U-IMCj2icu-ae8srk2zBWMZSmjxsz_iXgK1TIqm0f9np66zAG-LYZGmxCN/s1600-h/hydrahousemobile7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNAZOX74-tqSwMXsV5X2DafZ5ccFlrOAWP1eZ5JWSAJ2GiltJV6xAjQGS6-CxjGCSqBJti0Vp3PvjCibWKg_U-IMCj2icu-ae8srk2zBWMZSmjxsz_iXgK1TIqm0f9np66zAG-LYZGmxCN/s320/hydrahousemobile7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278014350724401666" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0I50etIntwuk01XQEsBWOgydiPlXC7t7xQP3_vTr2CBcZyBA7bz2act_ub13C16_jWSbEwsxiKpzmyGpe8wlOHMF7uVFe3Gq3YYlfwZpInLfvd0wwvK_a4CkmKpWbZZfEglJIK2FMYfLQ/s1600-h/hydrahousemobile6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0I50etIntwuk01XQEsBWOgydiPlXC7t7xQP3_vTr2CBcZyBA7bz2act_ub13C16_jWSbEwsxiKpzmyGpe8wlOHMF7uVFe3Gq3YYlfwZpInLfvd0wwvK_a4CkmKpWbZZfEglJIK2FMYfLQ/s320/hydrahousemobile6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278014341045189474" border="0" /></a>Jennifer Siegal and her offfice, Office of Mobile Architecture, proposed the "Hydra House." In her brief, the project is described as "a mass-customized mobile modular structure that is responsive to environmental issues of global warming and water desalination and recycling." </div><p style="text-align: justify;">"The structural stalks are separated into chassis (providing internal structure, power, communication, mechanical, and a self-sufficient energy collecting system), and mass-customized elements (for interior build-outs, exterior and interior skins, electronics, and communications)..."<br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">The structures are embedded with intelligence. As described,<br />"1. Water: rain water with stretched bladder and desalination (97% of the planet’s water is salt water in the seas and oceans) and treated waste water. Each tube either pulls sea water upward (see bottom skin punctures drawing directly from the ocean) or distributes desalinized water downward to provide potable and washing water.<br />2. Power: photovoltaics, salt crystalization, and thermocouple energy conductors<br />3. Communication + Mechanical: global knowledge and plumbing</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Pneumatic Exterior Skin: 2 layers of inflated neoprene</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Liquefied Connections: suction-like tentacles attach to each independent housing unit, forming colonies and allowing for external passage.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Floating Garden: each independent housing unit has an attached self-sufficient floating garden. These Lily pads stem from Hydra House’s structural stalks, using an umbilical cord to provide fresh water and nutrients gives life and feeds the floating garden."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">For more information, click <a href="http://www.archphoto.it/2007/08/31/design-mobile/">here</a>, and scroll down to the second project.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">(Thanks, Joy!)<br /></p>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-17080360773147524102008-12-08T22:09:00.000-08:002008-12-08T22:43:02.120-08:00research_discordant harmonies<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAN5b7R4N_-R4te2HqjL-T1JqeYAnAjuxsb74MSe1ZzpnZunAZIBDq0I_MQ-s7HgF0Vm_itJ77Xb56JsOvskEisBBQBMjko5xj-FOUqmvjUrEJ-CTWyFmsKULxN1o8U4qeyX-P0ir8-wy/s1600-h/cc-feuillu.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAN5b7R4N_-R4te2HqjL-T1JqeYAnAjuxsb74MSe1ZzpnZunAZIBDq0I_MQ-s7HgF0Vm_itJ77Xb56JsOvskEisBBQBMjko5xj-FOUqmvjUrEJ-CTWyFmsKULxN1o8U4qeyX-P0ir8-wy/s320/cc-feuillu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277676754219827890" border="0" /></a>In the book <span style="font-style: italic;">Discordant Harmonies</span> by Daniel Botkin, the author discusses a "new ecology for the 21st century." Its introduction in particular is quite revelatory in that it begs for a new approach to environmentalism, one different from its often negative attitude and tries to avoid the stipulations of the past, ie nature is the machine, nature is the creature, nature is divine. All of these conceptualizations often create a "nature knows best attitude." They omit the fact that in the history of the world change has been inevitable. On p.9, Botkin states, "Change now appears to be intrinsic and natural at many scales of time and space in the biosphere. Nature changes over essentially all time scales, and in at least some cases these changes are necessary for the persistance of life, be life is adopted to them." This condition suggests that change is a natural process, and perhaps making any intervention even more frightening.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />I find the point Botkin makes in opening of his book particularly compelling. He begins with a photograph of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy. He describes it as, "heavy but graceful architecture, set against the motion of the coastal waters." The foundation of the church was sed to be made by driving 1,106,657 trunks of alder, oak and larch into the muddy lagoon to build a foundation. Submerging these tree trunks under water protected them from air, and therefore decay. This still serves as the foundation today. The Venetians faced the problem of stabilizing the ground. They moved to the area during the 5th and 6th centuries in order to avoid the fleeing Germanic tribes (Lombards) destroying the Roman Empire. They were forced to move to the marsh lands as they were defensible.<br /><br />Botkin relates our position today to those of the Venetians one thousand years ago. He states, "While impelled by necessity, the first Venetians did not go to those marshes so long ago empty-handed, without the benefit of civilization. They brought with them three things: ideas, techniques, and a perspective of the world--how nature works, how people might change nature, and how the world in the future might be different from the world they had known in the past. Today, we are in a position in relation to the environmnet of our entire planet similar to that of the ancient settlers of Venice in relation to the marshes of the Adriatic. We see problems shifting before us whose solutions are unclear." What are the ideas, techniques, and perspective of the world today that we can use to address urbanism? To address rising sea-levels?</div>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-9046254713116689172008-12-08T21:56:00.001-08:002008-12-08T22:06:15.524-08:00image_amphawa, thailand<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh64hhZ2QoEGUnFty7TEDq5p9mhk7vQ3qmymE5kkxi3k0zv90OU3fV2Y3BOuHMobRdBbvom8a1NgkHVu6UFjW0ly4P74ZxjrC5vGDr4_g1IKtIivOEzCox3K9ftnXywc6NQQU8ff0RVzHz_/s1600-h/amphawan_03.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh64hhZ2QoEGUnFty7TEDq5p9mhk7vQ3qmymE5kkxi3k0zv90OU3fV2Y3BOuHMobRdBbvom8a1NgkHVu6UFjW0ly4P74ZxjrC5vGDr4_g1IKtIivOEzCox3K9ftnXywc6NQQU8ff0RVzHz_/s320/amphawan_03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277665226692175842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEgBZfQku3lu7X9iFkXDQtxOntsMj-ztrlO6xHelyBkxO_NObvBJLJapWIQSrwegjvdlqmPc5TXUJyYOIWVKN95BUALR8uc7lc_xZJqXgQWBjpcPgdKoj9xsPgmjNNKmRdt6WA95fBqmeV/s1600-h/amphawan_02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEgBZfQku3lu7X9iFkXDQtxOntsMj-ztrlO6xHelyBkxO_NObvBJLJapWIQSrwegjvdlqmPc5TXUJyYOIWVKN95BUALR8uc7lc_xZJqXgQWBjpcPgdKoj9xsPgmjNNKmRdt6WA95fBqmeV/s320/amphawan_02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277665223131596866" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">These images come from a floating market in Amphawa, Thailand. For more information, go to this <a href="http://www.thai-blogs.com/index.php/2006/02/08/amphawan_floating_market?blog=5">blog</a>. Another example includes <a href="http://www.asiatravel.com/floating.html">Damnoen Saduak</a>. These floating markets are an extension of existing markets and are popular for tourists. They use the network of Thai's waterways as a manner by which to trade and sell good and food.</div>Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4555720105288667483.post-90681150748577772172008-12-08T21:33:00.001-08:002008-12-09T12:55:16.333-08:00images_boston project<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBaUQKNhcMEZNndv28hBZWDMiNY0HOBxciLLp5qZCsXCxXkk2jGnqh1xyrFxlorRQcLKAJ1WpX15DAOQOxTKbjVaup7EAqCL8_Q0-9LBaNfeoQmXoTmxsYTkg2eiFt33_jxzugJXGj1Bb2/s1600-h/bostonUntitled-3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBaUQKNhcMEZNndv28hBZWDMiNY0HOBxciLLp5qZCsXCxXkk2jGnqh1xyrFxlorRQcLKAJ1WpX15DAOQOxTKbjVaup7EAqCL8_Q0-9LBaNfeoQmXoTmxsYTkg2eiFt33_jxzugJXGj1Bb2/s320/bostonUntitled-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277660164044876322" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wVSlSTy6MHE6tAmc_o_xjkEqfC4Gtyg6wTldLgzyh_l31BQz9Q4CdQGbRsMnSK1Wp0sgmopORpz2e-kJPQSIQSMH-L4iR_Cg87pl5c3BMogZN4wmyj14N4Bhyphenhyphen3dTPw3tIvJrf3-KmFbp/s1600-h/bostonUntitled-5+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wVSlSTy6MHE6tAmc_o_xjkEqfC4Gtyg6wTldLgzyh_l31BQz9Q4CdQGbRsMnSK1Wp0sgmopORpz2e-kJPQSIQSMH-L4iR_Cg87pl5c3BMogZN4wmyj14N4Bhyphenhyphen3dTPw3tIvJrf3-KmFbp/s320/bostonUntitled-5+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277660166900305538" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyKrnpKvwnllHw5-O1HtNHbUJU8Hj-FxIl0WwGd39GOIqzQwnSLVtJhGcCDtWfLvKeZu-wdDZ3t_59cPR9LQoFUuMFPxLKE_4CEUxnUBzLNwHK23NAHhxVuNrvISoytd_51pzcbxNeOnog/s1600-h/bostonUntitled-7+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyKrnpKvwnllHw5-O1HtNHbUJU8Hj-FxIl0WwGd39GOIqzQwnSLVtJhGcCDtWfLvKeZu-wdDZ3t_59cPR9LQoFUuMFPxLKE_4CEUxnUBzLNwHK23NAHhxVuNrvISoytd_51pzcbxNeOnog/s320/bostonUntitled-7+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277660165620301202" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUleLXKxBWC4WUGmo5DK_jjF8TpsebIemwnHOrMycjKB5pUI1gIW0Jp_SBKiWcKwBqczAVpiJmW-fiUGgOXL_cZrLbQbCRZx-IpiXVbFh5rwjZ0mgVG9Rl1IRUGSA-cFbQ5Htn45rmPFCW/s1600-h/bostonUntitled-9+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUleLXKxBWC4WUGmo5DK_jjF8TpsebIemwnHOrMycjKB5pUI1gIW0Jp_SBKiWcKwBqczAVpiJmW-fiUGgOXL_cZrLbQbCRZx-IpiXVbFh5rwjZ0mgVG9Rl1IRUGSA-cFbQ5Htn45rmPFCW/s320/bostonUntitled-9+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277660178371676050" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKeYWYH80qddrqPGq0hCjNF4H2czJWvIiTsGverSklSydsvDzHyDPdTmjKtp_LyDUl6BejmLcurGvgBTI5xzzo8GOR27ou1tSo1bNa-yE92M4sVp675ZuA1-1-9T5xE8e6Q4Bq36Jmfqw/s1600-h/bostonUntitled-11+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKeYWYH80qddrqPGq0hCjNF4H2czJWvIiTsGverSklSydsvDzHyDPdTmjKtp_LyDUl6BejmLcurGvgBTI5xzzo8GOR27ou1tSo1bNa-yE92M4sVp675ZuA1-1-9T5xE8e6Q4Bq36Jmfqw/s320/bostonUntitled-11+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277660189970370450" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxl1g0Y4NqPLNR-q6Z9kZwMriR_8nvCwOy4M1P3roej4T5BPcOveoENcGjqi9saMgaveE5V1bbr7oEkbacgeRXxkGbjPpswqRYnCj6ooOSl3iRyAk9HdTHFI4FOIk3g7gV0pZd7s14oqn7/s1600-h/bostonUntitled-15.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxl1g0Y4NqPLNR-q6Z9kZwMriR_8nvCwOy4M1P3roej4T5BPcOveoENcGjqi9saMgaveE5V1bbr7oEkbacgeRXxkGbjPpswqRYnCj6ooOSl3iRyAk9HdTHFI4FOIk3g7gV0pZd7s14oqn7/s320/bostonUntitled-15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277660857585120562" border="0" /></a><br />Volume: Unsolicited architecture. 2007. Issue 4.<br />Project #6: Flooding the Mail.<br />pre-emptive design for Boston's future.<br />Damian Chan.<br /><br />(thanks, Ivan!)Marina Christodoulideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401797975702890noreply@blogger.com0