The regional scale of Blue Dunes complements local projects and allows for economies of scale; complex and combined protection systems, physical coupling of on and off shore systems, enhanced feasibility of financial risk mitigation.Today this proposal stands at a crossroads…
The Meadowpark is a large natural reserve made accessible to the public that offer flood protection. It connects and expands marshland restoration efforts by the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, and makes them accessible.
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has sparked considerable debate in Hurricane Sandy’s wake. Introduced in 1968 as an alternative to repeated government bailouts in flood-prone areas, NFIP is designed to financially protect residents and small-business owners whose properties are…
The Louvre- Lens Park introduce the capacity to change over from economic production to an economy regenerated by a way of inhabiting and revisiting the memories of an area in contact with the memories of art and culture in the…
The design concept with a series of repeating elements was developed for the entire course of the Emscher. The ‘River of Trees’ is the overall theme of the project. The choice of vegetation responds to the surroundings: In the retention…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has just released an amazing online tool for mapping coastal flood risk. Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper allows users to examine, in great detail, the vulnerability to flooding of any location along the Atlantic…
The city of Madrid dug 43 km of tunnels into which the exit routes and motorways of the 6 km section along the River Manzanares disappeared.
Michel Desvigne proposes “a rigid development plan, an infiltration strategy, an evolutionary occupation process, exploiting the fragmentation of the territory to introduce gardens and walks”; the idea is to create: “a provisional parks system, which accompanies all transformations without waiting…
