Download ARC 6911 Ambphibious Typologies

ARC 6911 Section 1H88 Graduate Seminar Spring Term 2017
ARC 4930 Section 2371 Undergraduate Seminar Spring Term 2017
3 Credits/
Professor Martha Kohen
[email protected] 352 2941475
Invited lecturer Prof. Nancy Clark
Tuesdays periods 7-9 (2.00-5.00 pm) ROOM NRN 0342 (Norman Hall)
Office Hours : Monday 2.00 to 4.00, Wednesday 2.00- 4.00 pm room ARC 262
Archi-genesis of Amphibious Typologies
Archi. Architecture. The process and the product of planning, designing and constructing
buildings and places
Genesis. Origin, generation, creation
Amphibious. Adjective applied to objects or living creatures able to function in land and
water. Combining two characteristics, or adapted to land and water.
Typology (in Urban Planning and Architecture) is the taxonomic classification of physical
characteristics found in buildings and urban places, according to their association with different
categories. (see ref.)
The Seminar (a meeting for research and discussion) will study the precedents of the
coexistence of human settlements with coastal and tidal environments. the Seminar will select
successful proposals from around the world and study its adaptability to our local Florida
environments. Students will create a website to upload and share their work in progress. The
analysis will develop from selected historical periods and geographical occurrence to
contemporary situations at national and international levels. From informal to formally planned
examples, the Seminar will establish the permanence or variability, the adaptive capability of
amphibious settlement patterns and associated architectural responses deriving from the
analytical inputs from the research, the students will seek to develop a Catalog of operative
principles in paradigmatic situations. Case studies will include Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic
Seaboard communities. As the challenges posed by climate change to our existing coastal
communities continue to unfold, the Seminar will advance proposals of principles and
discernable responses to both existing and future urbanely conscious architectural typologies.
Throughout the Seminar students will address all their observations in the search for the
amphibious qualities of the human adaptation to the wet and dry conditions of existence.
The Seminar is a documentation and analysis group effort that will produce a collective final
power point as well a printed report. Maybe a book…. The graphic content should be of
excellent quality. Active participation is required for this class.
Module 1 (2 Classes)
Water resources for settlement viability include human survival, agricultural production,
navigation and exchanges, recreation and tourism. Explore the multiple declinations of water
for the State of Florida through:
-Water bodies: coastal beaches, mangles, marshes, rivers, estuaries, creeks, waterways,
springs, lakes, canals
-Navigational use: Intra-costal navigation, ports,
-Production use: irrigation, energy generation, water provision, water treatment and
management, canals
- Settlement creation: Adapting the human habitat. Coastal developments, dredge and fill,
canal communities.
Module 2 (2 classes)
The human-water interphase in a geographical and historical perspective. Examples to be
analyzed and presented though a power point to the class:
. Timucua and Calusa cultures
. Iquitos and Manaus, two Amazonian river towns trading on stilts
. Bangkok and Guangzhou (Canton) historic river boat cultures
. Jakarta Indonesia, a nation of Islands and a history of sinking
. Lagos water settlements, the informal paradigm
. Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Netherlands. Keeping menacing water under control.
. The river Nile, its delta and cities Alexandria and Cairo. Using water cycles.
. Mississippi River Basin. Chicago and the river reversal. New Orleans, facing the consequences.
. Savannah, Charleston, Miami and New York, the Eastern American Seaboard, internal
waterways
Module 3 (2 classes)
Climate change, Sea Level Rise and Storm surge. Study of the science behind it. Academic
sources. Evaluate the impact of SLR and storm surge to settlements and infrastructure. Evaluate
the proposal and actions by Federal bodies and legislation, State of Florida Legislation, Local
Authorities proposals. The South East Florida Compact.
New York responses to Sandy. MOMA Exhibition, Rebuild by Design
New Orleans responses to Katrina.
Module 4 (1 class)
Amphibious planning and architectural responses. Addressing the Adaptation Project. Coastal
treatment modalities from dredge and fill, seawalls, platforms, stilts, water retention, podium
strategies. Retreat as an inclusive response. Examples from previous intervention proposals
along the Gulf of Mexico, Tampa Bay and in Longboat Key, Saint Augustine, Intracoastal
Waterways, Miami and Fort Lauderdale, New Orleans, New York, Amsterdam, Jakarta and
more. Select architectural examples from round the planet towards the creation of an
amphibious response data bank.
Module 5 (4 classes)
The typology of water based settlements in Florida as a Case study. Review of the recurring
patterns of settlement, the typological analysis of the recurring establishment and its risks. This
analytical tool, in crossing with the determined response modalities results on a proactive tool
that the class provides the academic and administration realms as a visionary proposal towards
addressing planning, establishing codes and architectural proposals for a resilient future.
Calendar
January 10. Introductions, presentation of the Seminar Syllabus as a research Seminar.
Formation of work teams for addressing modules. Groups start with Module 1 in teams.
January 17
Module 1
January 24
Module 1
January 31
Module 2
February 7
Module 2
February 14
Module 3
February 21
Module 3
February 28
Module 4
March 7
No class Spring Break
March 14
Module 5 initiates
March 21
Module 5
March 28
Module 5
April 04
Power point and Report draft presentations
April 11
Final consignments of Power Point and report
April 18
No Class/ classes finished
Bibliography / Consultation materials
Bergdoll, Barry Rising Currents, Projects for the New York Waterfront, The Museum of Modern Art, New
York, 2011
Englander, John High Tide in Main Street. Rising Sea Level and the coming Coastal Crisis. The
Science Bookshelf 2016
Farr, Douglas Sustainable Urbanism, Urban Design with Nature, Wiley 2008
Gadanho, Pedro Uneven Growth, Tactical Urbanisms for expanding Megacities. The Museum
of Modern Art, New York 2014
Gendall, John Rebuild by Design, HUD 2015
Loes Nillesen, Anne et.al Amphibious Housing in the Netherlands. Architecture and Urbanism
on the Water NAI Uitgevers Publishers 2010.
Morgan, William Precolumbian architecture in Eastern North America. University Press of
Florida. 1999.
Morgan, William Earth Architecture from Ancient to Modern, University Press of Florida ,
2008
McCarter, Robert William Morgan Selected and current works. Images Press 2002
Pilkey, Orrin Retreat from the Rising Sea, Hard Choices in an age of Climate Change. Columbia
University Press, New York 2016
Satterthwaite, David Cities on a Finite Planet.. Towards transformative responses to Climate
Change. Published by Earth Scan from Routledge 2016
New York Times article, Ian Urbina 11- 25- 2016 Rising Seas turn Coastal Houses into a Gamble
New York Times article, Justin Gillis, 9- 4 -2016, Flooding of Coast by Global Warming has
already begun.
Videos: National Geographic, the Years of living dangerously Season 2 session 2
Former courses results: The Florida Atlas Seminar/ The Resilient Miami Studio/ Re-charting
Longboat Key toward Community, Economy and Resiliency, The Florida Sao Paulo Dialogs.
100 Resilient Cities. Rockefeller Foundation Inniciative.