Reconnect city & water: How can we turn the flooding threat into an opportunity to create new relationships between the city and water?
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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2022
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Zhu, Chunlu
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Sammanfattning
The context of the design proposal is Wuhan,
China, which has a indivisible relationship
with water(Yangze river). From historical
and current perspectives, water shaped the
city while the city also limited water.
Over the centuries, citizens in Wuhan have
fought to resist flooding because of the
weather conditions and low topography. A
growing population and the scarcity of agricultural
land led to the draining and reclamation
of large bodies of water, which exacerbate
the flooding risk.
Even though specific climate predictions
remained in uncertainty, it is nevertheless
a fact that we need comprehensive analysis
and assessment for flood risk to better
understand the elements that causing
floods, while searching for further measures
to guard against, and to take advantage of,
flooding.
The oldest protective measures in Wuhan
were to enclose land with dykes, these high
dykes tend to get in the way of any direct
relationship between the city and water, and
just leave a rigid and inflexible impression to
the kids and citizens, which indicates that
these structures need to be better incorporated
into the urban fabric.
The starting point for this Master’s Thesis
was to search more resilient and long-term
measures for flooding mitigation from an architectural
perspective, thereby promoting
and reproducing the connection between
the city and water. Conformable to more
resilient solution, dynamic landscape design
is introduced as a method to connect current
context with stormwater as a flexible
and variational element to promote urban
resilience. Thereby, water management and
dyke adaptation needs to be integrated into
urban life, thus promoting outdoor activity
and interaction between the city and water.
Research into the field of layer models and
spatial qualities defined the target environment
and strategies for promoting sustainability
through design.