INTERSECTIONS OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS The intersections of ecological and urban systems are an opportunity to implement designs that address the mechanisms of urban ecology and how it operates, changes, adapts, and performs. Through an ecological lens, we can deconstruct socio-spatial relationships allowing for a better understanding of relationships and their overlap, leading to innovative designs and systems that enhance, cultivate, generate, repair, and protect urban systems.
DREDGE CYCLE
PUBLIC HOUSING: CYCLE OF DISPLACEMENT
MYSTIC RIVER
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CHELSEA RIVER
million cubic yards 20 miles East of Boston Harbor Massachusetts Bay Disposal
BOSTON INNER HARBOR
CHARLES RIVER
RESERVE CHANNEL
isolating systems, concentrated poverty key institutional mechanism for concentrating larger numbers of poor people within a small geographical space contain the ‘problem’, the urban poor
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this projects goal is not to (re)design housing units, but to (re)define the use of spaces and create new integrated spaces that will reduce isolation and become more integrated with the systems around them in order to increase resilience Implementation of new strategies will allow for new spaces that will increase connectivity, movement, access, and community spaces
BOSTON HARBOR
CONFINED AQUATIC DISPOSAL (CAD CELL)
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SUPERCELL
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MYSTIC CAD M19
MAIN SHIP CAD
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MARY ELLEN MCCORMACK
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built in 1930s 1-3 bedroom units 1016 units 22 three-story buildings
built in 1941 1-6 bedrooms units 472 units
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OLD COLONY
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converted in 1990 1-3 bedroom units over 500 units 3-12 floors
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Future maintenance and deepening of Federal Shipping Channel will produce 10 to 11 million cubic yards of sediment to be DISPLACED to Massachusetts Bay Disposal Site
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DREDGE CYCLE REDISTRIBUTION CONTINUUM Transport
Redistribution Brownfield Remediator
Transport
Extraction
Redistribution
Distributive Supply
Thin Layer Placement
Natural Distribution Deposit
Release
Federal Shipping Channel
CAD Cell
[Interpretation based on: Dredge Landscape Technologies https://instrumentalism.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/dredge-landscape-taxonomies/]
marsh revitalization
MARSH TERRACE PROTOTYPE
FIELD STUDIES 1
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converts shallow open pools into constructed arrays of intertidal marsh strategically placed in order to initiate more accretion arranged in order to maximize intertidal edge and minimize fetch reduces erosion by reducing the impact of wind and waves reduction in erosion allows for reduction of dredging sediment accretes in between and along the system submerged vegetation growth open corners allow movement of water and organisms through the field
MODULATION AND CHANGE
TERRAIN INDEX
pockets can allow for ponding and new ecosystem new interactions within spaces
will allow for more levels of growth and larger intertidal zone can reach higher heights engaging with multiple ecosystems
SPATIAL INDICATORS OF CORRIDOR OPERATION AND PERFORMANCE height
width
CORRIDOR PERFORMANCE AND FUNCTION CONTINUITY aggregated gaps (stepping stones)
Conduit
purpose: efficiency
Filter
purpose: inhibits movement along/or across zones allows movement along or across zones
Buffer
continuous
activity
BUFFER: protect
FILTER and BUFFER: ENHANCE landscape AGGREGATED GAPS
lessens, cushions, absorbs purpose: goes between two incompatible zones
IMPLEMENTATION PERFORMANCE Enhance
intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of
Generate
produce
Cultivate
to develop, to foster the growth of
Repair
realistic yet transformative; to restore, leverage
Protect
preserve
CONDUIT: CONTINUITY and EFFICIENCY
CULTIVATE sediment and flows; GENERATE new landscape