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Guide The Flood : Miami Vulnerable Neighborhoods Flood Adaptation Design, Zhe Zhao
Guide The Flood : Miami Vulnerable Neighborhoods Flood Adaptation Design, Zhe Zhao
Masters Theses
When it comes to the future of Miami, what else could be instead of waiting to be swallowed by the sea?
This thesis starts with a group pre-research on different aspects related to the rising up sea-level in Miami. By analyzing the existed urban fabric and typologies, the author tries to use the current segregated open space in every block to create a new open space system to reduce the sea-level-rise influence. Therefore, the goal for the thesis is to provide a powerful and gynamic open space system to the rising sea-level.
The thesis is structured in three phases. In …
New Beginnings Homeless Transition Village, Community Design Center
New Beginnings Homeless Transition Village, Community Design Center
Project Reports
More than three million Americans experience homelessness annually. Emergency shelter capacity is limited while local governments are unable to provide even temporary housing. Informal housing involving interim self-help solutions are now popular adaptive actions for obtaining shelter despite nonconformance with city codes. Unfortunately, most informal solutions have resulted in objectionable tent cities and squatter campgrounds where the local response has simply been to move the problem around. Our homeless transition village plan prototypes a shelter-first solution using a kit-of-parts that can be replicated in other communities. Village design reconciles key gaps between informal building practices and formal sector regulations, creating …