Resilient DenCity

Building With Water

Master thesis (2015)

Authors

Contributors

N. Deboutte (mentor)
M. Voorendt (mentor)
R. Van de Pas (mentor)
Department
Explore Lab (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2015 Tintori, M.
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Published Date

26-06-2015

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Faculty

Architecture and The Built Environment

Department

Explore Lab

Abstract

This thesis is part of a bigger project called Resilient DenCity, which is the title of a group project taking place at TU Delft and more specifically within Explore Lab 19 and it is conducted by four students: Cosimo Conserva (Public Realm), Matteo Ferrarese (Green Network), Vince Marchetto (Density) Mattia Tintori (Multi purpose flood protection). The starting point of Resilient DenCity is global climate change and consequent sea level rise. The project aims to respond to the changing needs of our society in terms of waterfront protection and improvement focusing on Jersey City, NJ, USA waterfront. Hurricane Sandy enlighten the fact that the entire NYC metropolitan area needs improvement regarding flood defense in order to be prepared for future extreme events and climate change projected scenarios. Therefore a plan, that allows the private sector to profit as an incentive for building critical water management infrastructure, should be developed. Land reclamation from the Hudson River is then utilised to pay for the infrastructure costs, while the private sector still profits from new waterfront real estate.