DISAPPEARING LOTS

Urban Adaptation Competition Remote

TEAM: A. AMASALIDIS

By 2030, the global temperature will rise by 1˚C, increasing the global sea level by 2.1 m; 3.2˚C and 7.1 m by 2100.

Our current methods of overcoming the disappearance of our coasts are to develop and reinforce seawalls or surrender buildings and landmass at great economic cost. We challenge the notion that our structures must be in opposition or at the mercy of these circumstances through a design where the structure is as easily disassembled as it is constructed, the component parts can be reinstalled into new frameworks, and each building is antecedently lifted as a buffer against time. The chosen site is located in Crissy Fields, a recreational area in northern San Francisco adjacent to the Golden Gate Bridge. The surrounding area is mostly residential zones where the median land value is over $1 million. We chose this site due to the housing and affordable housing crisis, the projected land and infrastructure loss due to increasing sea levels, and lack of an existing development plan in place for a long term sea barrier.

Our design is a series of mixed-use, housing towers made up of larger superfloor structures that multiple floors of housing and commercial pods can plug into. The structural skeleton is stacked, glulam superfloors attached to concrete piers and foundations. Each superfloor holds three floors of program, and each program pod is an easily plugged in modular shell ready for users upon installation. The glulam structure is easily dismantled into its component pieces, later moved to newer, more inland foundations, and unusable members are recycled into urban furniture for the remaining foundations turned sea platforms. The design reacts to the inevitable rise in sea levels through its modular structure, program masses, and skin that can disengage from unsafe conditions, and its foundation that undergoes programmatic reincarnation. The design allows building and living in areas previously viewed as unsuitable investments or lands projected to disappear within 50 years, and reframes these coastal lands as future assets.

BUILD FOUNDATION, CORES, CONCRETE COLUMNS

BUILD SUPERFLOORS, INSTALL PODS, ATTACH SKIN

SUPERFLOORS 1/3/5 - VERTICAL FARMING SUPERFLOORS 2/4 - HOUSING/MIXED USE

Construction

DETACH SKIN, PODS, AND SUPERFLOORS

FOUNDATION/SUPERFLOOR 1REMAINING OCCUPIABLE PLATFORM

Construction Deconstruction