Working Waterfront Newtown Creek - Adaptive multi-layer flood protection on brownfield opportunity areas

Working Waterfront Newtown Creek - Adaptive multi-layer flood protection on brownfield opportunity areas

Guschl, L.B.

Palmboom, F. (mentor)
Sepulveda, D.A. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

Delta Interventions Studio

2014-06-24

For 400 years New York has a turbulent interaction with its surrounding waters. It embraced, tamed, neglected and rediscovered the waterfront which made its greatness possible. Hurricane Sandy brought in a new complexity for New York and its relationship with the waterfront. The storm reminded the city where it is located and paid a high price for ignoring the forces of the water. Yet, New York has a too long and tangled relationship with the waterfront to retreat upland or cower behind seawalls. The city has to find new strategies how to live with the water. The master´s project addresses the active working waterfront at Newtown Creek and a mixed-use waterfront development at Greenpoint which aims to create an accessible, adaptive and vibrant riverfront which is capable of restoring the ecology of the creek and resilient against natural hazards and sea level rise.

New York City
Waterfront design
Resilience
Flood protection
Climate change
Multi-layer safety
Delta urbanism

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Student theses

master thesis

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