4.2 Keelung in 2050 - Climate Change, Architecture and Urbanism in the Anthropocene-Keelung Port

Figure 4.1.21 Response for SDG 12

Not only food and accommodation but also entertainment to take care of the community mental health

Not only life on land but also life underwater, the ecosystem with better waste management system and balancing ecosystem

Figure 4.1.22 Response for SDG 14 and 15

78 | Urban Design

Keelung in 2050

Climate Change, Architecture and Urbanism in the Anthropocene

co-author: Yu-ting, lEE; chia-an, YEn YEars: DEcEmbEr 2019 location: KEElung, taiwan

Urban Designing for 2050 and beyond in the Keelung Harbour, and Island Precincts. Look at the abundance of lessons that nature and homo sapiens’ subversive relationships offer for future urban design and develop urban structuring principles and design strategies.

Urban Designing for 2050 and beyond in the Keelung (Quelang) Harbour, and Island Precincts. Look to the abundance of lessons that nature and homo sapiens’ subversive relationships have to offer for future urban design and develop urban structuring principles and design strategies that create innovative and operational useful spatial structure(s) within the limits of live-project (i.e., time frame consideration, climatic conditions). Combating climate change and human-induced problems by either providing urban structuring design and strategies that create new nature, built, cultural, and socio-ecological network enable the vision for disruptive innovation.

The project provides a vision with vigour, resilience, liveability, versatile for climatic changes of our regions, cities, communities, significant places and sites to ensure sustainable integration of disruptive innovation into the biosphere and built environmental design. It creates the urban structure(s) that admit fundamental Anthropocene design principles to rectify current problems. Integrate essential knowledge and concepts from problems of Anthropocene that focus strategic design areas based on the following directives on spatial focal points and significant categories of urban design strategy interventions:

A. Direct impact of urbanisation on peri-urban environments and protected areas;

B. Early warning system design, climate-resilient and innovative infrastructure design, freshwater resource design and management, coastal wetlands and biophilic planning and design, and lastly, agricultural architecture and urban design strategies.

Basic Analysis

Figure 4.2.1 Old land (early 19th)

Figure 4.2.4 Main river Figure 4.2.2 Topography

Figure 4.2.5 Drainage system Figure 4.2.3 Green space

Figure 4.2.6 Sewage drainage system

Figure 4.2.7 Accumulate precipitation Figure 4.2.8 Seawater covered area (sea-level increase 5m) Figure 4.2.9 Master plan of harbour

Figure 4.2.10 Main road around harbour Figure 4.2.11 Transport routes Figure 4.2.12 Community and population

Figure 4.2.13 Community texture

Figure 4.2.16 Abandon space Figure 4.2.14 Religion

Figure 4.2.17 Activity centre Figure 4.2.15 Air-raid shelter

Figure 4.2.18 Market

Water

When we are talking about the water issue around the harbour, the first problem is the river emission influence the residential quality and city favourability, especially around the primary end of the river of Keelung harbour. Furthermore, with the development of Keelung, the absorbing capacity of the urban surface is decreased, but the range of flooded areas are increasing.

The analysis shows Keelung flood easily and the water waste flow to the ocean that influences the water quality. On the other hand, while the increase in the intensity and frequency of urban flooding under climate change and sea level is rising, it is better to consider improving the residents’ lives more effectively.

Figure 4.2.19 River Emission X Precipitation X Waste water

Heavy precipitation could cause the Keelung city flooding. More waste water didn’t obtain and flowing to ocean Sea increase area is the existential main road

Figure 4.2.20 Sea Increase X main road

Pedestrian

The pedestrian system nearby the harbour is occupied by the commercial activities and blocked by the road system. The vehicle’s main road extends to the port coast that the route blocks the pedestrian route between the train station and the original community and temples. The blockage stops the tourists to access to community easily and separates the seacoast from the port-community.

The unlinking and unfriendly pedestrian system decreases the quality of tourism and local life, for example, the system does not provide an excellent walking path during the rainy day, not to mention that there are more than 200 raining days per year Keelung harbour.

Figure 4.2.21 Public space X Pedestrian X Community

Public space and pedestrian didn’t link together. Only a few communities have the pedestrian system.

Figure 4.2.22 Main road X Pedestrian X Morphology

Pedestrian system has been separated by main road

Public Space

The problems here for the public space are: - The original green landform blocked by newly planned land, streets and main roads. - Complex and messy markets that shatter commercial space and lack of integration. - Diverse temples that divide specific ethnic groups and lack common gathering space for all residents. - Multi-type development business destroy the original industry (fishery) space characteristics. - Topography disperses the gathering space and increased abandoned space in the community. - Topography reduces the effective use and management of public space in the community.

Figure 4.2.23 Topography X Old map

The original green landform is separated and broken by the topography.

Figure 4.2.24 Multiple event spaces

Diverse gathering spaces is lack of integration.

- Commercial development and terrain imbalanced community population development, resulting in reduced use of public space and lack of cohesion. It is potential to rebuild or regenerate the public space by: - Restore the link between green space and coastline. - Reintegrate multiple attributes and complex distributed public spaces in the business district. - Increase community connection and cohesion. - Reusing abandoned space to enhance gatherings and exchanges in the community. - Connections between the commercial areas and the communities

Figure 4.2.25 Topography X Public Space X Community

Public spaces are fragmented by the terrain. Abandoned space is in-creased.

Figure 4.2.26 Topography X Community

Narrow terrain and less public space lead to population outflow.

Borders

The analysis shows the topography influents the main transportation routes and breaks the public space in the communities. It is clear that the main transportation routes separate the city texture and development. I argue the borders and gaps in the city are disadvantages for the communities and the ecology. To improve the connections in the city, it is better to break the strong borders that rebuild the connection for land life and pedestrian between the higher community and the port areas. The connections help to penetrate the boundary between ocean and land and concatenate the community’s scattered public space.

Figure 4.2.27 Main Transportation Routes X Topography Figure 4.2.28 Main road X Texture