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NEW INLAND HARBOR GSD Landscape Core Studio Ⅲ : Design for Littoral Land:From Episode to Adaptation

Envision the future of Boston Harbor at a post-dam age, Unleash natural forces as labors Location: Boston Harbor, MA Architect as a predictor Instructor: Amy Whitesides, Robert Pietrusko Collaborated with Sufeng Xiao, Xin Feng

"Different peoples choose different ways of interacting with their surrounding environments, and their choices ramify through not only the human community but the larger ecosystem as well." William Cronon: Changes in the Land

This studio probes the hyperbole around resilience planning and offers an alternative to the purely cosmetic after-effects of conventional resilient design proposals. We are committed to long-term scenarios of regionally specific and globally significant treatments that attend to the land that is left behind as the climate changes. Boston Harbor History is formed through continuously moving of soil, digging and filling. Infrastructures like dams are built to change the relationship between land and water, shrinking and altering the boundary of Boston harbor, but natural forces have been always neglected or unwanted. In Boston landforming, labors like river and plants are also important soil moving agencies. Also, with the sea level rise, dams along the Charles are at risk, we claim to unleash the river by dismantling the Charles river dam and redefine the inland harbor by letting natural agencies to help form new harbor.

Fall 2019