Sink or Swim

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Alday, Iñaki [author.]

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Computer filePublication details: urbanNext, March 25, 2020.Description: 670 wordsISSN:

2575-5374

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Summary: All but five per cent of the world’s population lives less than six miles from a river, lake or coast. The International Panel for Climate Change forecasts several scenarios of sea level rise, but a good amount of the world’s deltas, including those of the Mississippi, the Mekong and the Ganges will exist for a limited period of time. Areas that flood exceptionally – for instance, every 100 years – are going to be flooded regularly. The main challenge for these areas is seasonality, with vast extensions of territory in a permanent oscillation between being usable and submerged land. Which are the paradigms to reference for a new ‘normal’?

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Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, Iñaki Alday, Low Density

Architecture&nature, Climate change, Dealing with Nature, Design, Designing Strategies, Essay, Innovation, Landscape, Landscape Architecture, Reconstructing nature, repair, Technology, Water, Watery Territory

Previously published at Architecture Today -- https://www.architecturetoday.co.uk/sink-or-swim/

Material courtesy of Pati Núñez Agency and Aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje.

All but five per cent of the world’s population lives less than six miles from a river, lake or coast. The International Panel for Climate Change forecasts several scenarios of sea level rise, but a good amount of the world’s deltas, including those of the Mississippi, the Mekong and the Ganges will exist for a limited period of time. Areas that flood exceptionally – for instance, every 100 years – are going to be flooded regularly. The main challenge for these areas is seasonality, with vast extensions of territory in a permanent oscillation between being usable and submerged land. Which are the paradigms to reference for a new ‘normal’?

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