Spatial Water Management Dan Williamson M.Arch Thesis
David Karle & Sarah Thomas Karle
1990-present Water Resource Engineer
Urban Designer
Architect
Vladimir Novotny
Iain White
Leon van Schaik
integrated resource management
Recognition of limits
Spatial Intelligence architecture civil engineering
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building construction landscape architecture
urbanism
Paradigm V is an oppotunity to re-align the architect into the spatial issues of water management.
Combined Sewer Overflows continually threaten the Great Lakes
Water Core as is relates to site organization
Roofing Components Roof Surface Fascia Truss system
Grounding Components Floor trusses Foundation walls
Exploded Construction
Shell Components Timber frame Rain-screen drainage layer Rain-screen Water Core overflow system Windows
The relationship between the architect and water management needs to be reconfigured to leverage new spatial, social, and architectural interventions.
The continual resistant and centralized management of urban water has proven to fall short. New decentralized strategies at the architectural scale need to be addressed.
Through accepting water into the built environment, new spatial configurations will surface.