Water Edges
Examples of Water Use in Design and Architecture
This includes landscape architecture, flooding, wetlands, wetland parks and some landscape architecture detailing. Also some examples of landscape architecture drawings, project descriptions and competition-winning entries.
Weiss/Manfredi: Constitution Gardens: Living Waters, A Museum Without Walls
Swan Lake Park wins National Landscape Architecture Award » JPW
System-based approach to detailing
A naturalized landscape: Barangaroo Reserve
For an example of a good student project, see:
Liupanshui Minghu Wetland Park by Turenscape | The Strength of Architecture | From 1998
Inundatiepark West-Brabantse Waterlinie
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City of Melbourne considers chain of new parks and wetlands in draft plan for Moonee Ponds Creek
Larger-Scale Projects
City/Water: Example Projects
Oyster-tecture - SCAPE (scapestudio.com)
Consider the integration of nonhuman life, however, primary for human service and in instrumental fashion
Consider the geometry of the intervention
Consider the scale of the intervention
Living Breakwaters Rebuild By Design Competition - SCAPE (scapestudio.com)
Elliott Bay Seawall | Mortenson
To save these seahorses, we built them 5-star underwater hotels - The University of Sydney
Toft, Jason D., Andrea S. Ogston, Sarah M. Heerhartz, Jeffery R. Cordell, and Emilie E. Flemer. “Ecological Response and Physical Stability of Habitat Enhancements Along an Urban Armored Shoreline.” Ecological Engineering 57 (August 2013): 97–108. https://doi.org/10/f47x53.
Wakefield, Stephanie. “Making Nature into Infrastructure: The Construction of Oysters as a Risk Management Solution in New York City.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2019, 251484861988746. https://doi.org/10/ggc8ds.
Moosavi, Sareh. “Ecological Coastal Protection: Pathways to Living Shorelines.” Procedia Engineering 196 (2017): 930–38. https://doi.org/10/gfsqmp.
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