Resilient Medway River Landscape: Adaptive Design Strategies for a Sustainable Coastal Landscape

Coastal areas and riverine cities accommodate the great majority of the world’s population, but they are extremely vulnerable to flooding risks. In the cities next to the Medway River estuary, the capacity to adapt to flood risks had been weakened by urban development and intense industrial usage. This degrading led to the loss of flood buffers...

Dynamic Riverscapes: A vision for inhabitable, sustainable floodplains. The case of Huissensche Waard

The project proposes a new approach for the design of river riparian zones, researching on the debatable issue of living on the floodplains. In recent years, there has been a shift in the tradition of engineering the river landscape towards a more landscape-friendly perspective. However, the focus still remains usually on nature and recreation,...

The sensitive river scape, the sinuous territory: Transforming Dajia River Basin as a Water-Sensitive Landscape Infrastructure

This project explores the landscape potential of Taiwanese river valley in terms of integrating water and river management with urbanism within the context of a dense environment diversity as well as a highly sensitive and dynamic landscape. Taking one of the most illustrative river basin, Dajia River, the steepest river with the most water...