DAVID MORGAN david.morgan@the-bac.edu
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802 779 4633
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596 Cambridge St. Allston, MA 02134
SITE 1 | The Prince Building
LIVING WITH WATER PRINCIPLES
This building represents existing and historic, urban, waterfront buildings and properties that are common in Boston and similar vulnerable coastal cities.
DESIGN FOR RESILIENCE
Resilience implies adapting to or bouncing back from a disturbance quickly. Resilient planning and design incorporates redundancy and anticipates change over time.
SITE 2 | The 100 Acres
This neighborhood site represents urban waterfront mixed-use districts with a mix of existing, historic and new developments set in green and blue public spaces.
Boston Living with Water is an international call for innovative design solutions and strategies that address the regular coastal flooding expected by the year 2100. Over 340 leading planners, designers, and thinkers submitted proposals for three sites in Boston in response to the challenge of sea level rise and climate change.
SITE 3 | Morrissey Boulevard This road represents vulnerable coastal infrastructure that is routed through historic, mixed-use, and new development districts and remains critical to growth and functionality of cities.
1990s The Deer Island Sewage Treatment plant is constructed two feet higher than originally designed in anticipation of sea-level rise
2000s
2004
The City of Boston takes first climate actions with direction to reduce municipal greenhouse gas
CREATE DOUBLE-DUTY SOLUTIONS
INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION
Tufts and Boston Universities publish the Climate’s Long-Term impacts of Metro
COMPETITION FINALIST
2005 Boston adopts the US Mayors Climate Protection Agree ment to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve energy
ABSORB
2006
2007
The Union of Concerned Scientists publishes reports on change, projecting an increase of sea-level and average tempera tures
CHANNEL
Mayor Menino leads the City of Boston to prepare action plans for reduction of dangerous -
ELEVATE
and incorporates these into the City’s plans for emergency responses and development
MOVE
and provide for other uses when idle realizing multiple benefits and maximizing economic, ecologic, and cultural gain.
STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
Community resilience maintains and enhances the cultural identity that defines a city through resiliency networks and social support systems. Strategies that strengthen social resilience can both cost less and provide meaningful benefits to participants.
2009
2015
The Climate Action Leadership Committee is appointed and prepares comprehensive recom mendations for the Boston community on climate change mitigation on adaptation
BLOCK
Boston’s municipal agencies are preparing for climate changes with evolving mitigation plans in place and commenc ing calls for bold Living with Water ideas and grassroots preparation
CONNECT
EMPLOY
The Omega Chain The Hydrokinetic Canal as an Urban Generator Bountiful Delta: It’s not just resilient No building is an island The Water Fun(d) The Prince Building Piers Water District Resilient Linkages Total Resilience Approach
LIVING WITH WATER GRAPHIC DESIGN DESIGN | RESEARCH Boston Society of Architects Boston, MA
The Living With Water competition is a project integrated within the Huxtable Fellowship that focuses on our ability to design, create and develop resilience within the communities of East Boston. Partnering with the Boston Society of Architects, we designed and printed a brochure that would serve as a guide for the competition. The design is a chance to create a piece of information that advocates for conversation and public interest in the actions of Boston’s Sea Level Change. By creating and developing the document, I led the working process of each meeting and iteration. I graphically networked the vast amount of research collected by our team. With funding from the Fellowship, we were able to print 750 copies and distribute them throughout the BSA and BAC.
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