BUREAU FOR COLLECTIVE AGENCY D ISPERSAL | R I S K |MI G R ATI O N
Design for Littoral Land: From Episode to Adaptation Department of Landscape Architecture Core III Fall 2019
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Harvard Graduate School of Design
I p sw i c h B a y
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Atlantic Ocean
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Cape Cod Bay
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INTRODUCTION
Ro s a l e a M o n a c e l l a ST U D I O I N ST R U C T O R
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C O L L A B O R AT I V E
Ko n g y u n H e A n g e l a M o r e n o - Lo n g Chloe Soltis Kymberly Ware
FO R T H E C OA STA L C O M M O N W E A LT H
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COMPOUND RISK
Eun Soo Choi S ov o r S o n g Ji Wang
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RECOMMISSIONING
A y a m i A ka g a w a Nora Chuff Maxwell Smith-Holmes
THE OCEAN
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I N T R O D U C T I O N
The Design for Littoral Land: From Episode to
While extant models of state jurisdiction are
Adaptation studio investigates current modes of
becoming obsolete under the planetary forces of
resilience planning and offers an alternative to
climate change, so are business-as-usual methods
conventional resilient design proposals. Bureau
of maintenance and construction. The three agencies
for Collective Agency rethinks the standard forms
brought together under the umbrella of Bureau for
that agencies embody when it comes to addressing
Collective Agency each focus on actors well-known
the challenges presented by our changing climate.
and surreptitious, territorial and immanent, that
Traditional approaches to mending the negative
together comprise a possible path for adaptation.
externalities of episodic risk are inadequate for today’s crises. Instead, Bureau for Collective Agency proposes new forms of governance that promote novel coalitions of actors that can opportunistically respond to, adapt to, and participate in the landscape’s undeniable transformation.
C O L L A B O R AT I V E
F O R
T H E
C O A S TA L
C O M M O N W E A LT H
The Collaborative for Coastal Commonwealth envisions a future where public ownership is expanded in Boston Harbor. Our current jurisdictional structures are unable to address the complexity and nuance of spatial forces and conditions playing out at the coastal edge. Water can no longer be treated as a force to be kept out with static boundaries. Collaborative for the Coastal Commonwealth agencies advocate for the strategic decommissioning of jurisdictional boundaries at the coastal edge, acknowledge fluctuating hydrological conditions and implement a public littoral zone by harnessing the potential of sediment, industrial surfaces, and plants as they interact with water. C O M P O U N D
R I S K
Compound Risk: Adapting the Workforce identifies the climate change as a compound risk, where the risk of sea level rise, flooding, and contamination transfer are connected through watershed and the aging water infrastructure. The Institute of Workforce Adaptation (IWA) is an inter-jurisdictional agency conceived to redefine the maintenance of water infrastructure as a productive process by curating the collaboration between the human labor of federal hazard assessment programs and the performance of plant species.
R E C O M M I S S I O N I N G
T H E
O C E A N
Recommissioning the Ocean: New Configurations of Migration and Infrastructure reconceives of the space between continents as host to a migratory infrastructure that is well-adapted to the planetary condition of a changing climate. A new global organization dedicated to reimagining oceanic infrastructure, the International Organization for Oceanic Infrastructure (IOOI), recasts a series of organisms that thrive on the industrial materials used in modern commercial shipping
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from noxious hitchhikers to agents of diversity and adaptation.
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C O L L A B O R AT I V E
F O R
T H E
C O A S TA L
D E S K S
C O M M O N W E A LT H
R I S K
R E C O M M I S S I O N I N G
T H E
O C E A N
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C O M P O U N D
COLL ABOR ATIV E FOR T H E COASTAL COMMON WE ALT H
OUR CURRENT JURISDICTIONAL STRUCTURES ARE UNABLE TO ADDRESS THE COMPLEXITY AND N U A N C E O F S PAT I A L FO R C E S A N D C O N D I T I O N S P L AY I N G O U T AT T H E C OA S TA L E D G E
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IS TIN G
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CHELSEA RIVER
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C O L L A B O R AT I V E FOR THE COASTAL COMMONWEALTH Our current jurisdictional structures are unable to
hydrological conditions and implement a public littoral
address the complexity and nuance of spatial forces
zone by harnessing the potential of sediment, industrial
and conditions playing out at the coastal edge. Water
surfaces, and plants as they interact with water.
can no longer be treated as a force to be kept out with
Currently, there are several agencies working within
static boundaries. The Collaborative for the Coastal
static jurisdictional boundaries that do not take into
Commonwealth declares the agency of water and
account the dynamic, interconnected material system
sediment as dynamic materials that are assets in a
of the Boston Harbor Watershed. Massport, the United
strategic opening of the edge for common benefit
States Army Corps, the Massachusetts Water Resources
in Boston Harbor. We advocate for the strategic
Authority, Massachusetts Department of Environmental
decommissioning of jurisdictional boundaries at the
Protection, and the Coastal Zone Management Office
coastal edge and a strategic opening of the edge for
independently work on their own localized agendas for
public benefit.
minimizing risk from climate impacts, with separate
Designated Port Areas (DPAs) that dominate the
strategies and definitions of risk. The Collaborative for
coastline cannot continue to be maintained with
Coastal Commonwealth, or the CCC, envisions a future
the singular purpose of protecting and promoting
where public ownership is expanded in Boston Harbor.
water dependent industrial uses. Water access is not
The five agencies within this Collaborative will adapt
essential for many current activities at DPAs. It is within
their mission statements and operational proceedings
these spaces that the Collaborative for the Coastal
to create a common goal in relation to definitions of
Commonwealth
edge, materials, and land use.
agencies
acknowledge
fluctuating
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K O N G Y U N H E , A N G E L A M O R E N O - L O N G , C H L O E S O LT I S , K Y M B E R LY W A R E
E X PA N D I N G P U B L I C O W N E R S H I P
FOCUS AREA
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D E S I G N AT E D P O R T A R E A S ( D PA S ) C A N N O T C O N T I N U E T O B E M A I N TA I N E D W I T H T H E S I N G U L A R P U R P O S E O F P R O T E C T I N G A N D P R O M O T I N G W AT E R D E P E N D E N T INDUSTRIAL USES.
CCC MISSION
T H E C O L L A B O R AT I V E F O R T H E C O A S TA L C O M M O N W E A LT H ENVISIONS A FUTURE WHERE PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IS E X PA N D E D I N B O S T O N H A R B O R
EDGE The CCC recognizes the zone where water meets dry land as a constantly fluctuating territory that defies singular definition and will work to design for a hydrological
condition
that
produces common benefits.
LAND USE Designated Port Areas (DPA) can be sites for acknowledging risk and redefining the boundary as an extension of the ground condition that is changing and being continuously redefined.
M AT E R I A L Materials have agency and value and should inform and negotiate
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jurisdictional conditions.
M AT E R I A L T R A N S F O R M AT I O N S E D I M E N T ,
S U R F A C E ,
ASPHALT REMOVAL HUMAN LABOR
W A T E R ASPHALT DEGREDATION BY WATER
excavator jackhammers the asphalt and turns it into gravel
water enters through the cracks on asphalt
water freezes into ice and expands
backhoe removes and transports the asphalt asphalt expands and cracks
rainfall
water penetration
RIPRAP CREATION AND PLACEMENT HUMAN LABOR 9'
21’
40°
11'
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Asphalt, plants, sediment, and water become agents in the process of shifting the site from a static, hard edge to a new littoral zone that acknowledges risk and fluctuating conditions. A matrix of material based workflows inform human, plant, and water actions.
backhoe removes and transports riprap created from concrete bulkhead
10’
backhoe places riprap at strategic locations along shoreline
25’
3.2 yd3
17'
10’
cracking
ice expansion
W E AC K N O W L E D G E F LU C T U AT I N G H Y D R O LO G I C A L C O N D I T I O N S A N D I M P L E M E N T A P U B L I C L I T T O R A L Z O N E BY H A R N E S S I N G T H E P O T E N T I A L O F S E D I M E N T, I N D U S T R I A L S U R FA C E S , A N D P L A N T S A S T H E Y I N T E R A C T W I T H W AT E R .
SEDIMENT DISPERSAL BY WATER
concrete riprap
deposited dredge
edge corner catches inital sediment deposits
sediment is layered on riprap through daily tides and flood events
FLOOD
MHW
material: silt, blue clay, till and weathered rock
DECOMMISSIONING THE EDGE W E P R O P O S E C O O R D I N AT E D AG E N C Y D E C O M M I S S I O N I N G O F S T R AT E G I C D PA B O U N DA R I E S DESIGN WITH INDETERMINACY
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These plans are illustrations of indeterminate potential outcomes resulting from an initial material arrangement. The indeterminacy reflected in these outcomes speaks to the reality of the agency of the materials, which underlies the objective of the Collaborative for the Coastal Commonwealth. The five jurisdictional organizations cannot control these processes but rather need to work alongside the materials’ ability to produce new spatial outcomes and redefine jurisdiction in terms of edge conditions, land use, and material relationships. In this new scheme, jurisdiction is defined by indeterminant fluctuation rather than a static line.
EXISTING
2020
2035
2050
Avenue Eastern
roots spreading and further cracking asphlt
asphalt weathering and cracking
deposited dredge
spontaneous growth
existing steel and concrete bulkhead (removed)
sediment catchment zones
phytoremediation mounds
coastal erosion and deposition
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960 feet
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Brid
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living edge
C ATA LY Z I N G P R O C E S S E S THE CURRENT POLITICAL BOUNDARIES DO NOT R E F L E C T T H E S PAT I A L R E A L I T I E S O F S E D I M E N T B E H AV I O R
Sediment is a key resource that is abundant but currently undervalued in the Boston Harbor watershed. Most dredge projects like the ongoing Boston Harbor Deep Draft Navigation Improvement Project result in dumping of material or reinforcement of a hard water’s edge. Rather than being dumped in an ongoing cycle that reinforces the status quo, sediment can be used to seed a process in which it is further captured to facilitate additional processes along an evolving and changing edge.
EXCAVATED ASPHALT LIFT MATERIAL ACCUMULATION
FLUCTUATING EDGE excavated asphalt + sediment
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redistributed asphalt gravel + sediment
plant dispersal
CUT
S E D I M E N T E R O S I O N A N D D E P O S I T I O N T R A N S F O R M S PA C E L O C A L LY A N D AT A L A R G E R S C A L E TO C R E AT E A N E W E D G E C O N D I T I O N
CHANGING DREDGE MOUNDS
BOSTON HARBOR DEEP DRAFT NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
100,000 cubic yards of dredged material
dredged material deposition
FILL
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80’
PLANTING WAT E R C A N N O LO N G E R B E T R E AT E D A S A FO R C E TO B E C O N T R O L L E D A N D K E P T O U T W I T H S TAT I C BOUNDARIES
Planting of the site is determined by a rolodex of plant root morphology matrices that reference the various material and hydrological conditions that these species may thrive within. Spontaneous plant growth will also begin to break down the asphalt grid and redefine the edge.
PLANT ACTORS MATRIX freshwater tolerant
brackish/salt water tolerant HERBACOUS
GRASSES
TREES
PHYTOREMIDIATION INUNDATION STABILIZATION DISTURBANCEADAPTED SOIL-BUILDING
TAPROOT PHYTOREMIDIATION INUNDATION STABILIZATION DISTURBANCEADAPTED SOIL-BUILDING
SPREADING PHYTOREMIDIATION INUNDATION STABILIZATION DISTURBANCEADAPTED SOIL-BUILDING
RIPRAP
ASPHALT/ CONCRETE
RIPRAP
ASPHALT/ CONCRETE
RIPRAP
ASPHALT/ CONCRETE
RHIZOME
REDEFINE JURISDICTION T H E C C C R E C O G N I Z E S T H E Z O N E W H E R E WAT E R M E E T S D R Y L A N D A S A C O N S TA N T LY F L U C T U AT I N G T E R R I TO RY T H AT D E F I E S S I N G U L A R D E F I N I T I O N
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The CCC organizations cannot control all processes but rather need to work alongside the materials’ ability to produce new spatial outcomes and redefine jurisdiction in terms of edge conditions, land use, and material relationships. In this new scheme, jurisdiction is defined by indeterminant fluctuation rather than a static line.
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“ T H E C O L O N I A L O R D I N A N C E S C O D I F I E D T H E ‘ P U B L I C T R U S T D O C T R I N E ,’ A L E G A L P R I N C I P L E T H AT D AT E S B A C K N E A R LY 2 0 0 Y E A R S , W H I C H H O L D S T H AT T H E A I R , T H E S E A A N D T H E S H O R E B E LO N G N OT TO A N Y O N E P E R S O N , B U T R AT H E R T O T H E P U B L I C AT L A R G E .”
COMPOU N D R IS K AGING DAMS
SEA LEVEL RISE
SUPERFUND SITES
FLOOD ZONES
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COMPOUND RISK E U N S O O C H O I , S O V O R S O N G , J I W A N G , Z I H U I Z H A N G
Human labor builds the water infrastructure and maintains
Then, is human labor enough to fight the effects of climate
the integrity and longevity of the system. Human labor is
change? Our answer was no. Human labor is not enough to
everywhere, from local faciliities to federal agencies, and it
keep our waters safe, and we cannot continue investing in
is essential in our safety. But the workforce that currently
concrete structures that are bound to deteriorate.
operate and maintain the water infrastructure is aging and declining in its number. It seemed the US government
We are defining climate change as a compound risk. Sea level
was rightfully investing more money through WRDA into
rise and flooding amplify the danger of aging infrastructure
developing the workforce. The administration will ‘solve’
and the risk of contamination transfer. Connecting the dots
unemployment by creating more jobs.
between these hazards, then, points to the current federal hazard assessment practices that treat them as individual
History shows, however, a similar effort was made in the past,
occurrences.
without making lasting results. Instead, many of the water infrastructure projects in the past became potential hazard
Therefore, the Flood insurance of FEMA, National Inventory
today due to aging, with the cost of maintenance continously
of Dams from USACE, and the Superfund of EPA, need a
increasing.
workflow that connects them together.
ADAPTING THE WORKFORCE
We propose a new agency that organizes the federal operations into a new workflow, and synthesizes the human labor and the performance of plants.
REDEFINING MAINTENANCE
Our research reveals the need for an inter-agency, inter-
The plant performance is a productive maintenance that,
jurisdictional, inter-scale workforce management institution
instead of deteriorating, continuously upgrades itself over
that organizes the federal operations.
time and adapts to changing climate conditions.
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W O R K FO R C E A D A P TAT I O N
U.S. HISTORY THE COST OF MAINTENANCE
B
While the Trump Administration criticizes the “inefficient investment” in the Legislative Outline, the administration’s intentions to invest in fixing and developing the water sector workforce is only a small part of a larger problem. The dams are representative of the aging water infrastructure, and the deterioration over time 1) increases the cost of safety upkeep of water infrastructure, 2) indicates more potential to fail in case of extreme, unpredictable climate conditions.
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Human labor alone is not enough to prepare for the potential failure of these structures, and the definition of ‘labor’ needs to extend to include other species.
C
A
A SUPERFUND
TIMELINE
This process can take many years, increasing the potential contamination spread.
B
D A M FA I L U R E S
Aging structures and increasing water level multiplies the risk of dam failures.
C
THE COST OF SAFETY Operation and maintenance are
integral part of keeping the dams safe. to rise.
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As the dams age, this cost will continue
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EPA
FEMA
USACE
SUPERFUND
FLOOD INSURNACE
N AT I O N A L DAM INVENTORY
T H E N E E D F O R A N E W A G E N C Y
The impact of climate change occurs in multiple scales. Sea level rise causes more flooding, increases the salinity level in the soils, and affects the rhizosphere. Therefore, a new agency is neccessary to design operations with an extended definition of labor in between multiple agencies, and spatial scales. Here, we propose the IWA.
THE INSTITUTE OF WORKFORCE A D A P TAT I O N
MISSION
TO PROMOTE AND MANAGE ADAPTIVE WORKFORCE, MEDIATE THE OPERATIONS OF THE FEDERAL AGENCIES, AND BRIDGE THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES, AGENCIES, AND SPECIES.
W H AT W E D O
Extend the definition of labor Connect the operations of federal agencies Alleviate the impact of infrastructure failure
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Repurpose the inefficient investment
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SCALE 1:150,000
C O M B I N E D A N A LY S I S MASSACHUSETTS COASTLINE
R I S K
A SS E SS M E N T
THE COMPOUND ZONE Requires collaborative workflow between the agencies
IDENTIFYING TRANSMISSIVE ZONES Finding the most effective target area IWA
C O M B I N E D A N A LY S I S Collecting data from all agencies
SUPERFUND SITES Sites with high potential of contamination transfer EPA
AGING DAMS Dams getting older with higher potential of failure USACE
FLOOD ZONES Increasing amount of water content in the land
FEMA
SEA LEVEL RISE Increasing salinity, shoreline encroachment
SOUTHERN ESSEX REGION
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Section taken through the Crane River, adjacent to the two major plumes of the compound risk
SYNTHESIZED WORKFLOW IN SOUTHERN ESSEX REGION
I WA
E PA
FEMA
USACE
The operations of the federal agencies will be organized by IWA into a workflow that synthesizes the existing water infrastructure with additional green infrastructure introduced to increase porosity in the land, utilizes plants with desirable qualities, such as salt tolerance and phytoremeidation as part of the workforce. The operations that deals with climate change should be designed to react to and prepare for the unforeseen changes. In this case, the Putnamville Dam will be slowly decommissioned, releasing the water and lowering the level over an extended period of time to prevent dam failure or flooding in an extreme unforeseen climate event.
The following phases of operation are executed over the period of dam decommission: 1. Site Assessment And Permeability Analysis 2. Construction Of Ponds And Marshlands 3 0 / 71
3. Plant Selection & Nursing
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S I T E
A S S E S S M E N T
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L AN DUS E
KEY Landuse
Residential Water Content Vegetation
Density
FEMA
The workflow begins with FEMA to understand the conditions of the site, such as identifying the landuse that needs protection, and the locations that water can be redirected. For example, the residential area close to water adjacent to potential contamination from industrial sites will require protection, while the heavily
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Contaminants
vegetated lands could be used to redirect water.
S I T E
A S S E S S M E N T
2
EX PANDIN G FLO O D ZO N E S
FEMA
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The expanding flood zones will be compared with the landuse map, to determine which areas of landuse would be the most affected by sea level rise. In the town of Danvers, the residential areas will be the most affected. With the industrial sites being near the shore and near some residential neighborhoods, the risk of contaminant transfer increases.
PERMEABILITY B Y
S O I L
A N D
L A N D U S E
W AT E R H O L D I N G C A PA C I T Y
S U R FA C E P O R O S I T Y
BY SOIL TEXTURE
BY L ANDUSE
KEY
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Soil Texture
(in3/ft3)
Coarse sand Fine Sand
0.50 0.88
Loamy sand Sandy loam Clay
1.15 1.33 1.35
Silty clay Fine sandy loam Silty clay loam
1.60 1.75 1.90
Sitly clay loam Silt loam
2.00 2.25
Group
Landuse
Paved
commercial, industrial, junkyard, mining, transportation, public, institutional
Mixed
Unpaved
Residential (single, multifamily)
open land, transitional, vegetation
C O M B I N E D
EPA
FEMA
The paved surface and sandy or coarse soil combination indicates the least amount of water holding capacity, while the vegetative surface and loamy soil has more potnntial to hold water.
HIGHER CAPACITY TO HOLD WATER Loamy (fine)
Sandy (coarse) Paved
Vegetative
The land in Danvers county lacks the capacity to hold water.
A N A L Y S I S
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C O N T A M I N A N T
C O M B I N E D
T R A N S M I S S I O N
A N A L Y S I S
EPA
USACE
[left] Increasing water content in land increases the risk of contamination transfer. The potential direction of contamination transfer is overlayed with the waterflow direction.
[above] Exising water infrastructure, such as the pipelines and catch basins will be used to direct water to more porous locations and redirect water away from areas with potential contamination.
potential contaminants Stormwater pipe potential contamination flow waterflow direction
Water pipe
background: expanding flood zone
Sewer system
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highways
L O C A L
O P E R A T I O N S
GRAD UAL DE CO MM ISS IO N
USACE
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The Putnamville Dam will be slowly decommissioned, releasing the water through the existing infrastructure and lowering the level over an extended period of time to prevent dam failure or flooding in an extreme unforeseen climate event. The water released from the reservoir will start to fill up the ponds created closest to the dam.
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B
A
S A L I N I T Y
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C O N T A M I N A T I O N LEGEND
EXISTING WATER BOD
PROPOSED PONDS (I
PRIVATE SWIMMING P
VEGETATION (IWA, EP
OVERLAP OF JURISDI
PROPOSED WETLAND EXISTING PROPERTY
EXISTING BUILDINGS
STORMWATER PIPE L
PROPOSED ADDITION CATCH BASIN
STORMWATER OUTLE
TOWNSHIP OF DANV
LEGEND EXISTING WATER BODIES (FEMA, USACE) PROPOSED PONDS (IWA, EPA) PRIVATE SWIMMING POOLS (HOME OWNERS) VEGETATION (IWA, EPA) OVERLAP OF JURISDICTION (HOME OWNERS + EPA) PROPOSED WETLAND (IWA, EPA) EXISTING PROPERTY LINES EXISTING BUILDINGS STORMWATER PIPE LINES (TOWNSHIP OF DANVERS) PROPOSED ADDITIONAL PIPE LINES FOR STORMWATER CATCH BASIN STORMWATER OUTLET TOWNSHIP OF DANVERS
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A LEGEND
Site A is a clear example where saltwater and freshwater meets.
EXISTING WATER BODIES (FEMA, USACE)
It has mixed landuse, from commercial, industrial, to residential.
PROPOSED PONDS (IWA, EPA)
The soil is expected to increase in salinity with the sea level
PRIVATE SWIMMING POOLS (HOME OWNERS)
rise. The combined operation workflow will construct saltwater
VEGETATION (IWA, EPA)
marshes along the anticipated flood zones, and intentionally
OVERLAP OF JURISDICTION (HOME OWNERS + EPA)
dig out ponds in selected areas near stormwater basins which
PROPOSED WETLAND (IWA, EPA)
is planned to catch the excess water during flood. These to-be
EXISTING PROPERTY LINES
ponds and marshlands will be planted with salt and water tolerant
EXISTING BUILDINGS
plants that will increase the water holding capacity in this area.
STORMWATER PIPE LINES (TOWNSHIP OF DANVERS) PROPOSED ADDITIONAL PIPE LINES FOR STORMWATER
1
CATCH BASIN
TYPICAL SEASIDE SITE PLAN SCALE 1:2000
STORMWATER OUTLET Meters
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0
50
100
200
400
TOWNSHIP OF DANVERS
TYPICAL SEASIDE SITE PLAN SCALE 1:2000
50
100
I N C R E A S I N G
F L O O D
R I S K LEGEND
EXISTING WATER BOD
PROPOSED PONDS (I
PRIVATE SWIMMING P
VEGETATION (IWA, EP
OVERLAP OF JURISDI
PROPOSED WETLAND EXISTING PROPERTY
EXISTING BUILDINGS
STORMWATER PIPE LI CATCH BASIN
STORMWATER OUTLE
TOWNSHIP OF DANV
LEGEND EXISTING WATER BODIES (FEMA, USACE) PROPOSED PONDS (IWA, EPA) PRIVATE SWIMMING POOLS (HOME OWNERS) VEGETATION (IWA, EPA) OVERLAP OF JURISDICTION (HOME OWNERS + EPA) PROPOSED WETLAND (IWA, EPA) EXISTING PROPERTY LINES EXISTING BUILDINGS STORMWATER PIPE LINES (TOWNSHIP OF DANVERS) PROPOSED ADDITIONAL PIPE LINES FOR STORMWATER CATCH BASIN STORMWATER OUTLET TOWNSHIP OF DANVERS
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20
15
5
10
TYPICAL RESIDENTIAL SITE PLA SCALE 1:2000
0
50
B LEGEND
The closeness to the Putnamville dam exposes this neighborhood to
EXISTING WATER BODIES (FEMA, USACE)
increased amount of water as the dam gets slowly decommissioned.
PROPOSED PONDS (IWA, EPA)
This part of Danvers is mostly residential. The private swimming
PRIVATE SWIMMING POOLS (HOME OWNERS)
pools will be incorporated into the stormwater retention system
VEGETATION (IWA, EPA)
as a final warning. In other words, when the pools are filling up
OVERLAP OF JURISDICTION (HOME OWNERS + EPA)
with stormwater, it is time for relocation due to climate change. To prevent this from happening as much as possible, additional stormwater ponds with freshwater marshlands will be constructed and linked to the existing network of stormwater pipelines.
PROPOSED WETLAND (EPA) EXISTING PROPERTY LINES EXISTING BUILDINGS STORMWATER PIPE LINES (TOWNSHIP OF DANVERS) CATCH BASIN
TYPICAL SEASIDE SITE PLAN SCALE 1:2000
STORMWATER OUTLET Meters
0
50
100
200
400
TOWNSHIP OF DANVERS
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1
100
SYNTEHSIZED WORKFORCE E X T E N D I N G
T H E
D E F I N I T I O N
O F
L A B O R
Marshlands will be created in areas that needs protection, such as the residential areas near an industrial site with potential contaminants, or industrial areas near the shore. The plant employees are selected according to the edge conditions, varying in the composition of flood resistant, phytoremediating, and salt tolerant species.
Freshwater - Saltwater
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Freshwater - Residential
C H O O S I N G
P L A N T
E M P L O Y E E S
SELE CTIO N CRIT E RIA F L O O D R E S I S TA N T
P H Y T O R E M E D I AT I O N
S A LT T O L E R A N T
The saltwater marshlands will be composed mostly of salt tolerant species, while a location with a mixture of saltwater to freshwater edge conditions would include more flood resistant plants, and have a more balances set of species. Phytoremediating plants will be planted mostly in the marshlands near the industrial areas.
Available local conditions, such as abundant swimming pools in a residential area, will be incorporated into the existing stormwater management system to redirect water when the water content increases in the land, and serve as a physical, visual sign of the sea
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level rise to raise awareness of the residents.
03 R E COMMISS ION IN G T H E OCE AN
RECOMMISSIONING THE OCEAN AYA M I
A K A G A W A ,
N O R A
C H U F F,
M A X W E L L
S M I T H - H O L M E S
N E W CO N F I G U R AT I O N S O F M I G R AT I O N A N D I N F R A ST RU C T U R E confluence of ongoing processes. Global migration is an inevitable planetary process, drastically accelerated by human activity. Since the Anthropocene, plants, animals, objects and material have traveled, not just generationally via continental connections, but also over infrastructural systems both well-known and invisible. By considering the evolutionary histories of familiar species as well as the earth's own shifting morphology, processes of exchange, transmission, and migration appear as constant features of planetary habitation.
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As the unified land mass of Pangea and the ocean of Panthalassa drifted and warped over 175 million years into the earth’s present and ever-changing form, species of organisms have likewise splintered and reconstituted themselves, traversing geographic impediments while effacing political borders. The planet’s current spatial and jurisdictional configuration represents a single moment within the persistent progression of geological time and state governance. The arbitrariness of the earth’s present political, biological, and geographical divisions underscores how the distinction between ‘native’ and ‘alien’ species has been erected as a contingent result of a
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A L I E N O RG A N I S M S H AV E LO N G T R AV E L E D AC RO SS T H E G LO B E , E X PA N D I N G A LO N G T H E S A M E R O U T E S A S H U M A N T R AV E L Familiar species such as the horse, cholera viruses, and citrus fruits have traversed the globe, taking root in disconnected territories, travelling around the world along the routes of human
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technological means along modern shipping routes.
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BIOFOUL AND ANTIFOULING
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Buzzing and blooming on the watery membrane where the sea meets human industry, ‘biofoul’ organisms are considered a nuisance to the ongoing mechanical functioning of the shipping industry. The current distribution of species across the earth is as historically contingent as the arrangement of the planet's tectonic plates. multiple scales of adminstration span from the earth's core to the skies above. Bofoul organisms grow in successive layers on metal or wood surfaces in contact with ocean water. An initial layer of biofilm coats the host material before larger organisms continue to pille up.
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As humans have pursued their maritime ambitions, they have been trailed by an often denigrated group of seafaring organisms for whom industrial materials have proved an ideal habitat. Dubbed “biofoul” by sailors and port operators, these organisms attach to metal, wood, and other materials commonly used for industrial applications in or near oceans. They are often visible as the woolly gristle dangling from the hulls of boats, clinging to pilings, or lodged in the mechanical recesses of equipment, which have long troubled boat operators. They gum up the moving parts of boats, rendering the economically necessary components of shipping inoperable, and providing drag that causes inefficiency.
MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS
TA XO N O M Y O F FO U L I N G S P E C I E S As biofoul species hitch rides on the metal bodies of boats, global shipping routes map the vectors of these organisms’ migration patterns, illustrating the antagonistic relationship between fouling species and industry. These species repurpose the commercial infrastructure of oceanic trade as a means to further their own global dispersal. By attaching to boats and portrelated installations, biofoul species have
migrated between disparate parts of the earth, well-adapted for a strikingly wide variety of conditions. With the progressive development of cargo shipping, there was a simultaneous evolution of various “antifouling” tactics ranging from physical protections for boats to the application of toxin-laced paints.
Diatoms: Microscopic plants which may live suspended in the water or atached to submerged surfaces.
Licmophora flabellata
Navicula
Cocconeis pediculus
Synedra
Melo numm
MACROSCOPIC FOULING ORGANISMS Annelids: Worms whose bodies are divided into a series of rings or segments coiled or twisted tubular shells.
erpulid tube worms
Chironomus larva
Leucosolenia
Chalina
Halichondria
Raniera
Arthropods: All organisms with a chitinous external skeleton and joined appendages.
Barnacles: Cone-shaped shells attached directly to the hull or shells with a long muscular stalk.
Balanus balanoides
The impact of biofoul organisms on the shipping industry has produced a designation not based on biological taxonomy but, rather, on those organisms' deleterious effects on physical shipping infrastructure. Nevertheless, so-called "fouling" organisms share certain characteristics, such as short lifecycles which allow them to rapidly evolve and adapt to changing conditions, a trait that contributes to increased global biodiversity in an increasingly changing climate.
Fragilaria
Balanus tintinnabulmn
Lepas
Mitella
Balanus crenatus
Conchoderma virgatum
Balanus eburneus
Balanus improvisus
Conclwderma auritum
Baianus glandula
Scalpellum
Crenaius
Scalpellum
Isopods, Amphipods, Crabs and Pycnohonids.
ldothea baltica
Caprella
Unicola irrorata
Amphithoe
Corophium Sphaeroma cylindricum quadridentata
Galathea
Molluscs: Paired shells such as clams, mussels, oysters.
Anomia simplex
Chama macrophylla
Modiolus
Carcinides maenas
Ilyas coarctatus
Spirontocaris
Mytilus
Pecten irradians
Paleomontes
Saxicava arctica
Canar irroralus
Ostrea virginica
Libinia
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Bryozoa: Flat, spreading, granular discs or patches or branching tree-shaped growths, the branches not expanded
Zoobotryon
Watersipora cucullata
Conopeum reticulum
Victorella pavida
Protozoa: Singled-celled animals which range in size from 0.002mm-several cm. Rotifers: Roughly club-shaped animals which attach temporarily by the narrower end.
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Vorticella Carchesium Folliculina Euplotes
Acineta tuberosa
Cothurnia
Anthophysa vegetans
Brachwnus
Zoothamnium
Floscularia
Algae: Green, brown, or red filaments or leaflike structures, generally near water line.
Sycon
Cliona
Leeches
Oscillatoria
Ulothrix
Corallina
Sargassum
Fucus
Dictyota
La ninaria
Coelenterates: an aquatic invertebrate animal of a phylum that includes jellyfishes, corals, and sea anemones. Hydroids: Straight or branching growths, each thread terminating in an expanded tip.
Tetraclita
Obelia articulata
Clztlzamalus
Obelia bicuspidata
Bougainvillia
Tubularia crocea
Syncoryne Lytocarpus exima philippinus
Eudendrium Cordylophora ramosum lacustris
Pennaria tiarella
Corals: a hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton.
Astrangia danae
Oculina
Siderastraea
Millepora
Metridium
Anemones: stinging polyps that spend most of their time attached to rocks on the sea bottom or on coral reefs.
Packygrapsus
Nymphon
Pinnotheres oslreum
Pycnogonum littorale
Diadumene luciae
Tunicates: soft, sack-like creatures growing singly or flat spreading colonial forms composed of many small individuals.
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Chitons
Arca
Slyela
Styela montercyesis
Molgula manhallensis
Ciona intestinalis
Amarouciam
Botryllus
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Halichondria
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WRDA ʻ74 ... authorize USACE to undertake the design, repair, improvement, and modification of specified public works on rivers or harbors.
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WRDA ʻ07 ...dredge scarcity: place the Federal hopper dredge Macfarland on active reserve solely for responding to disaster dredging needs. ... authorize USACE to cooperate with MA in management & monitoring of dredge disposal sites and to accept funds from MA to carry out the tasks.
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FIELD WORK Inspired by precedents of seed propagation and genetic cataloging technologies, this project produces a physical archive of biofouling and its historical web of relations. Building upon field work conducted at the Arnold Arboretum, genetic information of alien species are categorized and ordered for evolution and adaptability.
Genetic Lineage of Acer griseum in Arnold Arboretum in 2019
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The development of global shipping routes has resulted in changes to the physical infrastructures of oceans with port areas and navigation channels continuously dredged. Harbors have had to be dredged even deeper following the opening of the Panama Canal and the subsequent increases in size of commercial cargo vessels.
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As climate change results in rising sea levels, many existing ports will have to close, faced with the threat of ocean inundation. As some ports cease operations and end dredging, benthic ecosystems will be healthier.
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D I S P O S A L , D R E D G I N G , A N D N AV I G AT I O N
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Faced with the challenges of climate change and learning from the global migration of biofoul organisms, a new conception of “oceanic infrastructure� comes into view. The term is defined as he assemblage of biological processes, metabolic flows, and material supports that provide public works to all ocean-reliant entities, human and nonhuman. It encompasses shipping routes, the information processing systems which provide navigational aid to boats, the habitats of the organisms living in or around the oceans, and
the bureaucratic paperwork that has produced the ocean as an object of human administration. Recognizing the inadequacy of existing state jurisdictions to address the issues of climate adaptation, this project proposes the creation of a new international organization dedicated to the coordination of decentralized biophysical responses to a changing climate and its inequities.
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T H E I N T E R N AT I O N A L O R G A N I Z AT I O N FO R O C E A N I C I N F R A ST RU C T U R E
The International Organization for Oceanic Infrastructure, or IOOI, embodies the tension between, on one hand, the necessity for a globalscale state organization to address our changing planet and, on the other hand, the notion that productive climate adaptation must also occur at the one-to-one scale through approaches that support both living and nonliving entities alike.
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The IOOI operates beyond national political borders to regulate, fund, and facilitate ocean infrastructure. These objectives, outlined on our website, provide a framework for the reorientation of oceanic infrastructure away from the profit-oriented paradigms of shipping and, instead, towards the notion of decentralized and responsive biophysical systems.
STA K E H O L D E R S The current configuration of ocean shipping remains myopically oriented towards increasing the potential profits of business, ignoring environmental well-being and a conception fo the ocean as other than the aqueous substrate of international trade. Instead, there is an urgent necessity to imagine a multiplicity of biophysical responses to the changing environmental conditions of oceans that prioritize equity and ecological performance over the interests of capital.
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As part of a process guided by the IOOI’s suggestions, certain at-risk ports will be incrementally decommissioned by turning their present physical installations such as gantry cranes, cargo transportation trucks, and bulldozers into tools for progressive self-demolition. Ports will be recommissioned as biofoul habitat, research facilities, and as points of exchange in a global bioinformatics commons through the careful displacement of sediment, the repurposing of shipping containers, and the reuse of pilings.
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The IOOI’s decommissioning guidelines, implemented in Conley Terminal, outline recommended methods for the progressive decommissioning of shipping activity and repurposing of port infrastructure in service of biofoul organisms and the study of adaptability.
H A B I TAT A N D R E S E A R C H With former sites of coastal industry recommissioned for organisms well-adapted for new, more capacious understandings of ocean dwelling, the IOOI supports initiatives to monitor biodiversity in these sites in an effort to learn about and promote adaptation. The global proliferation of genetic information and knowledge will be carried out in partnership with local citizen scientists who want to aid in creating new forms of coastal settlement.
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Partnerships with nonhuman organisms and materials as well as with human knowledge production pave the way for new configurations of oceanic infrastructure. By reconceiving of the space between continents as host to a migratory infrastructure that is well-adapted to current planetary crises, we can begin to see a new way of relating the ocean.
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