Land | Waterscape as projective infrastructure

To condition landscape as an infrastructure addressing hydrological uncertainties within deltaic territories

Master thesis (2017)

Authors

S.A. Kanekar Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

F.L. Hooimeijer (mentor)
T. Kuzniecow Bacchin (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2017 Sahil Kanekar
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Published Date

06-07-2017

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The research focuses on developing a system based resilience strategy to manage hydraulic challenges related to pluvial and storm surge flooding in the light of climate change. The project embarks an ecological approach by conditioning landscape into a hybrid infrastructure of green and blue networks which operate across spatial and temporal dimensions. The specificity of this research project lies in the context being in a delta condition. Managing urban storm water which needs to be conveyed, stored and discharged but also the saline sea water which inundates the downstream (temporarily during storm surges or permanently in the process of sea level rise), lies at the core of this research. The highlight of the research is in how the system can accommodate the bidirectional flow of fresh and saline water; and simultaneously improves the built environment for the region.