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Architectural Intervention: The Resilient Community Center, Matthew A. Baumgartner
Architectural Intervention: The Resilient Community Center, Matthew A. Baumgartner
ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium
In the city of Centralia, Illinois, several issues govern the city’s future, all stemming from the same major problem: the economy. To intervene, this community center proposal aims to encourage economic development and growth in the city, assisting small businesses with starting and expanding in the region.
Absorbency In Tidal Resiliency | The Thickened Pier, Shauna Strubinger
Absorbency In Tidal Resiliency | The Thickened Pier, Shauna Strubinger
Architecture Senior Theses
The inevitable truth of climate change has placed coastal cities at great risk. Past natural disasters in the United States such as Hurricane Sandy and Katrina, displaced many people because these communities’ only protection was their failed infrastructure.1 Although hard and soft infrastructure strategies have addressed the rising sea level, architecture at the building scale creates static surfaces and divisions that are slow to adapt to flooding and leave little to no room for the ambiguity of tidal flooding and storm surge. Though numerous areas are at risk of sea level rise across the globe, the Chesapeake Bay area is …