Integrated coastal flood design strategies

Integrated coastal flood design strategies: changing paradigm in flood risk management

Iuorio, Luca (TU Delft Environmental Technology and Design)
Bortolotti, A. (TU Delft Environmental Technology and Design)

2021

The relation between the design of the flood protection infrastructure and the design of the urbanscape is the focus of this paper with the question on how these two types of design can consciously affect each other. The text presents the preliminary result of an interdisciplinary research conducted by a team of urban designers and hydraulic engineers on two pilot projects of coastal adaptation to extreme sea level rise on the North Sea: Vlissingen (NL) and Southend-on-Sea (UK). Spatial measures to accept the flood, land use change, water-proof housing developments and the use of nature-based solutions are described in relation to the urban fabric. The aim is to discuss models of flood risk reduction which are alternatives to the more conventional coastal flood protection strategies. A different designerly way of thinking and a great effort of description and analysis of the two cases have been enacted to enlighten the spatial qualities of the urban form and its long-term adaptability.

coastal flood
water infrastructure
integrated design
risk management
living with water

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https://doi.org/10.24404/616051311d74bb0008d549ca

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14th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism: From Dichotomies to Dialogues - Connecting Discourses for a Sustainable Urbanism

The 14th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), 2021-11-25 → 2021-12-27, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

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