2050: 2050: re-weaving the post-sea level rise city; an exploration of the near-future shoreline and beyond arch751a Blue Plymouth Urban Strategy for Plymouth and the Tamar River Liam Chamings 10431831 Dale Cummings 10615807
foreword In line with UKCP09 (Land and marine past climate and future scenario projections data for the UK) which predicts climate change for the current century, the predictions highlight the fragility and vulnerability where ‘land meets sea’. Exposure to climatic extremes will occur with more frequency, a result of the predicted sea level rise, a predicted 30% increase in rainfall intensity, river flows peaking at 20% higher than current levels and wave heights increasing by up to 10%. This will lead to dramatic change for coastal communities, port cities, flood zone developments and other locations already facing significant issues of water run off and in-adequate drainage infrastructure, and posing only further eco-environmental and socio-environmental challenges to already venerable areas. This fragility is further highlighted globally with “40% of people living in coastal areas” (The Ocean Conference, 2017) and projections that more than 60% of the global population will dwell in cities post 2050. (UN, 2018) The status quo or the approaches of ‘now’ are challenged through this study, providing an opportunity to engage with the themes of resilience and contingency. The scenario formed under a speculative and research-led design approach is focused initially on the immediate site of Devonport. These waterfront explorations are then to be used to re-conceive Plymouth’s post-2050 newly formed urban edges, between land and sea. The work therefore explores a multiplicity of scales and importantly engages with the wider urban context of a vulnerable port city, with a near 10% contribution to the U.K.’s marine sector. (PPC, ND) However, could these industries continue with no identified resilience, or would the industry see a tactic to ‘retreat’ in land and thus consuming existing community areas? As urban sites currently without water frontage or access, will become the beneficiary of these features, there is an immediate challenge here, as waterfront sites often become a target for commercial gains. This becomes problematic as it can often ignore the challenges faced both socially and economically by the existing community, which in the project site, include deprivation of all 4 dimensions (Employment, Education, Health and disability, and household overcrowding), hard social and economical boundaries and a lack of investment past the norm of top down (and now discredited) hard flood defenses. This project instead explores how these newly formed edges could provide a means to extend the urban fabric beyond the notional shoreline and provide an opportunity to learn, research, dwell and importantly thrive post 2050. Whilst critically curating a visual stimulus to raise societal consciousness of the challenges facing urbanized port cities and coastal communities’ post 2050, this could also be referred to as a prompt for change.
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Key Themes Climatic predictions highlight the fragility that is possessed within ‘norm’ environmental patters and the occurrence of climatic extremes.
“Re engagement with the landscape [is] an open invitation for investigation into the transformative social and cultural formation of territories and for innovative means to strategically reformulate reality.” (Frampton, 2006)
Exposure to climatic extremes will occur with more frequency and by the end of the century sea level rise predictions, combined with rainfall intensity that is predicted to increase by up to 30%, alongside river flows peaking at 20% higher than current levels and wave heights likely to increase by up to 10%. This will mean for coastal communities, flood zone developments and locations possessing already significant issues of run off and in-adequate drainage infrastructure, will only present further eco-environmental and socio-environmental problems to already venerable areas. This fragility is further highlighted as “40% of people live in coastal areas.” (The Ocean Conference, 2017). The status quo or approaches of ‘now’ are challenged in order to provide an opportunity to engage with the themes of resilience, contingency and stimulus to Devonport as part of a larger whole. The scenario will also allow for a lens to be established on the immediate site of Devonport, to then re conceive Plymouth as a whole at the forecasted edges of 2050. This will allow explorations to occur across a multiplicity of scale and importantly engage with the wider ‘urban’ context. 94% of adults in England value nature as important
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96% of adults in England suggest children should experience nature
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17% of children in Plymouth have no visited the coast
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initial QUESTIONS - What does 2050 mean? - Has 2019 site challenges worsened?
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deprivation beyond deciles
94% 94% of adults in England value nature as important
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96% 96% of adults in England suggest children should experience nature
17% 17% of children in Plymouth have no visited the coast
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7% 7% of all employment within Plymouth (1980) was as part of the Dockyard
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2% 2% of all land within England is owned by the MOD, (1% owenership, 1% right of way)
95% 95% of all new dwellings in Plymouth (2015) were constructed on Brownfield sites
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loss of communal fabric of the past
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to belong rather than displace
Through analysing the site using the methodology of mapping and overlaying the historic fabric in comparison to the modern footprints, we established that the quantity of leisure historic and cultural institutions have been lost as the area begins to redevelop itself, however this has added to the deprivation of the area with it resulting as a place to go through as opposed to a destination. The Urban strategy will offer strategic catalysts to revive the sense of community and act as anchors to pull people into the site. The loss of the rich communal fabric of the past will also be incorporated into an proposal beyond the edge, thus presenting the opportunity in extending the urban life beyond the immediate fabric.
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situating the site within the field of action. Following an exploration of the lost programmes at the urban scale which can be incorporated post flood on site
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As a result of the 2050 flood predictions, a significant amount of Plymouth’s Identity will become submerged, the areas in which are referred too and have undergone research are the Tamar, Barbican and the Plym with a large percentage of marine industry, residential planes and leisurable institutions. It is our aim to relocate and re-establish these elements within our masterplan as a means to maintain and preserve the identity of the city within the area of Devonport. Integrating these properties into Devonport should reinvent its current reputation as it supplies the immediate surroundings and wider context with the benefits to be lost.
Sketch study during tutorial to gauge the connections of the new edge back to the wider city scale. These form strategic junctions between the new edge and the ex. urban scale. These may also inform part of a wider scale intervention post 2050, in other vulnerable areas of the region inc, Cornwall and Somerset. However this project is solely focused on the urban scale of Plymouth and the immediate site of Devonport.
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The future developments highlighted above show that there isn’t much redevelopment offered for the area, Oceansgate proposal brings together marine-based businesses to create a world-class hub for marine industries, with opportunities for research. Oceanography as a programme for our catalysts will offer an opportunity to strengthen oceansgates development.
The green arc is a feature and part of Devonport’s Identity, although this will be partly lost due to the predicted sea level rise, an aim is to maintain as much of the identity through connecting additional green avenues down to site, whilst introducing programmatic properties to link the start of the arc to the end.
The Primary buildings to be flooded are all under the ownership of the Ministry of Defence. Due to this reason we are proposing to relocate the MOD to areas that have appeared through the rise of the sea. The existing structures of the buildings will be re-appropriated to support the newly introduced programmes.
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The areas above represent the current developments that are proposed for the Millbay and Stonehouse area, the proposed Millbay boulevard has been planned to make stronger connections to the waterfront, however these new developments have become vulnerable due to the 2050 sea level rise predictions.
The new sea level will flood a large percentage of green landscaping that Millbay and Stonehouse acquire, our strategy will act upon this by implementing a method of weaving resilience back into the new edge through marshland and foliage, restoring aspects of the green land it once preserved.
Millbay and Stonehouse currently provide residents with a range of residential, commercial and industrial institutions, the section above shows the number of buildings that will be affected by the flood, we are looking at this as an opportunity to revive the sense of community through re-establishing social and cultural programmes.
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viability The tissue study conducted is not intended to show a re design of an M.O.D site, nor to focus the urban strategy solely upon the M.O.D. Rather it was essential in order to demonstrate viability of a relocation of M.O.D functions to sites within the city on an urban scale, some of which are already under M.O.D. ownership. The M.O.D is also a significant economic and political voice locally and nationally, with 2% of all land within England is owned by the MOD, (1% owenership, 1% right of way). (M.O.D., ND). There is a 12.3% reduction in land area available at the new sites, however the dockyard has seen significant decline over the past 20 years, therefore we see this percentage diff. as negotiable. (ref. appendix. i).
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Connectivity study; blue to blue via green.
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Exploring the historic ‘road to nowhere’.
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Exploring the prescribed lines forming silos of developments
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Re conceive the lost at the city scale.
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‘Our urban future and ocean world are intimately intert wined in numerous ways.’
testing site through precedence; utilising defined elements of Haffen city.
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Weaving resilience study to a vulnerable coastal community.
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translating gestures to strategy
“A new generation of designers are moving away from the dialetics and the romantics of design as a tension between form and function, idea and reality.�
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DRIVER. shoreline and beyond
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Exploring the multiplicity of the notional shoreline and the edge beyond to enable an extension of urban life and the enrichment of the fabric as a whole.
‘We need to find new ways to imagine living within the flooding and rising seas.’
(Beatley, 2014, pp. 65-66)
testing proposition ‘[Towards [b]uildings, public space design, and policies that embrace the presence of the ocean, rather than ignore it, hold the lost prom� ise for a sustainable future.’
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EMERGING THEORY ‘Our approaches to mediating shoreline/water edges may need to be more creative and dynamic than the engineering approaches of the past.’ (Beatley, 2014, pp. 65-66)
‘Two discplines of architecture and landscape architecture find each other entangled together in the weave of the world’
(Weller, R, 2006, p. 80).
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Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections between Cities and Oceans
An art of Instrumentality: Thinking Through Landscape Urbanism.
- Re conceiving traditional approaches to particularly the edge [city meeting sea], as well as the role of water within Urbanism
- Exploration into some ‘new ways’ of getting at the old, ‘gathered under the rubric of landscape urbanism.’
- Towards a Future-proofing of urbanised areas to negate damaging impacts upon blue areas.
- Collapsing the divide between planning and design.
- Working with blue, as opposed as against, leading to an exploration into the benefits as a larger whole. [Human life and blue life.] Beatley also challenges the norm approaches to urbanism within areas that meet blue, aiming to re conceive approaches to allow benefits for both human populations, the wider blue environment. These include socio- environmental and ecological.
- A compression in divisions between architecture and landscape. Engaging with landscape urbanism would allow for a series of interventions to act as a connective tissue through the scheme and provide connectivity from the immediate site, as well as engagement with both the blue and green. Presenting the opportunity to weave into a deprived and vulnerable community. There is also an opportunity to challenge or re conceive the ‘norm’ means of urbanism on the urban scale and the wicked problems identified throughout the body of work thus far.
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‘New threats to ocean health and marine life are so dire that protecting oceans for the future will require the work of cities and urban populations in unprecedented ways, today and in the years ahead.’
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programmatic driver oceanology why
further opportunities
In line with the forecasted 2050 scenario, any programmatic driver must be both resilient and contingent in nature to fully cope with any further ‘what if’s’.
The introduction of a programmatic driver aims to;
The program must also seek to offer an alternative as opposed to further contributing to the issues influencing upon climate predictions and in turn the forecasted raising sea levels, dynamic weather patterns and increased flood levels. The program must also be able to incorporate research, education and production to provide additional socio-economic and environmental benefits to the urban strategy.
- Introduce new individuals within the area, to enable vibrancy and opportunities of social and economic growth. - Link to the known marine excellence and outstanding research conducted within the city of Plymouth as a whole, as well as the ambition of the Marine centre of Oceansgate. This development is currently under phase 2, phase three is to be re conceived within the strategy. - Maintain Plymouth’s near 10% contribution as part of the national marine industry sector. - Enable opportunities of joined up thinking an enable an academic presence to catalyse any available linked funding opportunities.
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Kanalbyen Fredericia [DK] The canal city is in direct extension of Fredericia’s historic city centre with shops, restaurants, cultural institutions and business. The new district is developed as a natural extension of the old as a new junction between the city and the sea. A key notion within this development is the connections between its green infrastructure and the ocean, linking one edge to the other through a green corridor.
hafen city [De]
hudson river park [usa]
HafenCity is a metropolitan mix of living, culture, tourism, leisure and business and is has been set to be a lively urban waterfront district. The project has been divided into zones that have been assigned specific qualities and limitations. Due to the proposal being located in a flood zone and to protect the port facilities from flooding, the previously low-lying marshland was progressively raised to four to five meters above sea level. A process that continues in HafenCity today, with buildings being constructed on flood-secure plinths around 7.5 to 8 meters above sea level.
An aerial view Manhattan, at a large scale reveals the shoreline as a singular edge, however moving to a finer scale, reveals the extension of the notional shoreline and therefore arguably an extension to urban life through re appropriation of ex. infrastructure from past industries an extension to urban life has been formed. Building in popularity some developments are catalysed as international competitions to further extent the urban edge, through a wide range of cultural, leisure and arts interventions. A mix of programmes are portrayed as individual destinations in their own right and present a retrace of the ex. edge.
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schematic thoughts Concluding the large proportion of testing. The following schematic thoughts to incorporate as potential strategies emerged; edge
01. CONNECTIVITY draw into site as opposed, the site remains bound by nature and infrastructure, causing fragmentation and dislocation.
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03. STIMULATE provide strategic catalysts to stimulate areas of decline, such as Marlborough street, which at current is lost behind the new developed partly vacant faรงades fronting the main access past the Devonport area via Cumberland Road. 04. PROGRAMMATIC ensure a programme introduction that will assist in resilience as opposed to contribute to further climatic consequence. Also enable a program that will bring new members to the community to encourage economic and social growth.
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02. RESILIENCE form green infrastructure to not only provide natural and ecological landscapes but also multiplicity in program to provide defence and therefore resilience for any future climatic exposures post 2050.
05. EXTENT & LINK- THE NOTIONAL SHORE LINE AND BEYOND ensure an extension of urban life beyond the notional shore line.
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06. BLUR FURTHER PROGRAMMATIC INDUSTRY Identify areas to be used to serve the programmatic driver at new edges within the filed of action.
07. ENVIRONMENTAL re appropriated ex. M.O.D. infrastructure to provide possible means of renewable electric for catalysts and depending on capacity other areas of the urban strategy.
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combined strategies AREA A [i,ii,iii] - STONEHOUSE ISLANDS
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based upon 2050 predictions, the predicted flood will form two islands [i upper, ii lower] within the ex. area of Stonheouse. It is proposed to infill between [iii] to create an M.O.D site for heavier industry practices. Shared partly with princess yachts, access is to be provided from a shared singular point. boundary to be blurred through marsh, enabling both defence and resilience.
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once under M.O.D. ownership, ex. commerce will be offered to occupy new units within the site as the same rates paid to the ex. charitable trust enacting as the landlord for the majority of units. M.O.D. admin and lighter industry is proposed to the site. The site will utilise the ex. boundary and singular controlled access point. AREA A
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under M.O.D. ownership the park will facilitate for further heavier industry. Again boundaries to be blurred through marsh, enabling both defence and resilience, as opposed to introducing new hard edges.
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Derry’s cross to provide defence and form accessible green infrastructure for the East of the urban strategy. The Market also adjoins the new edge.
Resilient Bridgeport is a prototype for the region’s coastal cities. Led by the State of Connecticut, it consists of a resilience strategy and pilot projects focused on protecting homes, businesses and infrastructure in the South End of Bridgeport from chronic and acute flooding in order to foster long-term prosperity in the neighbourhood. The plan is to provide communities within a flood plain with opportunities to prepare and adapt in response to climate change and other environmental pressures.
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02 inc. displaced marine industry
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DEVICE
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It was critical for the model to function as a device and a construct for two keys ideas. Firstly to conceive the re appropriation of existing context, including geography and secondly to enable for the urban strategy to be a lens to be able to test for other areas of the city of Plymouth on the within the wider urban scale.
title modelling the lens for the wider city
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exploring the layering of edges through the device, which combines spatial proposals and the dimension of time through layers of predicted reach of flood water between 2030-2050.
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continuing to explore the layering of edges through the device, it is important to consider not only spatial extents in plan, but also vertically in terms of flood reach.
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SCHEMATIC Environmental STRATEGIES
ENERGY PILOT
ENERGY PILOT
Our urban strategy will partly focus on meeting the aspirations of The Global Goals for Sustainable Development, primarily, (13), climate action and (14), life below water. With number (6), clean water and sanitation a possible addition at a later date post 2050.
It is proposed for the wave generators to anchor within the existing docks and previous M.O.D. hangers and benefit from the vertical scale of the tidal range across the site. This will also future proof the scheme as funding could be received from initial pilot schemes.
The future climate change predictions that we are working with to drive our project offers an opportunity to implement a sustainable wave energy system fixed to the existing foundations redundant by the flooding. This method of harnessing energy is sustainable, efficient and renewable, and long term due to it sourcing its power from the endless supply of waves.
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The energy generated will aim to provide power from a renewable source for both of the programmatic catalysts. If power is exceeding requirements, capacity could be transferred to proposed live units to provide a subsidy for residents within the immediate strategy. This approach could be used as a lens for other areas of the city subject to flood and areas of displacement, that contain the ex. infrastructure to anchor buoy points. “On a more optimistic note, the oceans may also represent our best hope for a more sustainable future� (Beatley, 2014, pp.25) Secondary Sites Primary Sites
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Marine based 3d farming enterprise
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Marine based 3D Farming is a strategy to maximize yield and efficiency of food production within water. Just as man has scrapped, cultivated the land for centuries, new opportunities for production will present themselves in response to areas of the current landscape claimed by flood and rising sea levels.
The catalyst will seek to adjoin the proposed Oceansgate and the proposed centre of marine excellence. The catalyst is intended to perform as both a destination and anchor.
3D Farming may allow for socio-economic contingencies, whilst also having the potential to promote education and health programs to younger generations.
Both programmatic catalyst’s will complete the book end of the proposed treatment to the new edge of the immediate ex. M.O.D. site. The catalyst will also aim to introduce a link back to the new development of the Market Hall and aim to tie back further to the main vehicular route of the Cumberland Road. The site will be tested further within the coming project next semester [2b]. 81
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The enterprise will encourage the start of up enterprises for coastal communities. These communities are particularly venerable to the forecasted climate predictions, of flood and rising se levels. This will only cause displacement, unless re appropriation can be used upon the new edge of land and sea.
With over 75% of the current 24 million hectares of the UK designated as farmland, there is still evidenced to be a shortfall of 2 million hectares by 2030, if predictions mirror current trajectories of population increase, food consumption and climate change.
MOD land earmarked for development as part of the Oceansgate regeneration scheme, aims to establish a center of Marine Excellence and Enterprise. Whilst Reinforcing Plymouth as destination of Marine excellence. Contribute to both the national marine park to extent its reach to the masses.
Displaced farmers may also be retrained and allow for a transfer of knowledge and skill set from land to sea. The program will also aim to contribute to Marine Enterprise of Oceansgate and integrate blue and white collar working demographics.
Forecasted sea level rise and increased dynamic weather patterns, in line with UKCP09 predictions, will further impact upon the industry as a whole and limit land usage further.
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marine based biomed facility
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Planning for the future and to capitalise on the flooding, a proposed marine based biomed facility will be situated within the new edge, to experiment and test new ways of medicine, using the natural resources the ocean offers. A new way of thinking and testing will become a focal point for Devonport. The facility will offer spaces for education, business, testing and observing, to allow visitors to engage with the development.
The new edge has offered the opportunity to situate a Biomed Research Facility cantilevered or submerged on the water. The location of the catalyst has revealed accessibility to the water for research with a wider setting of water dedicated to farming and maintaining sea life for medical purposes. The location suggests puncturing the existing wall to link back into the community. The biomed facility will offer an educational experience in the public sectors so an opportunity to be by a school underachieving could influence and improve the school’s reputation. 83
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The proposal will seek to suit the needs and re house some of the facilities that were affected by the initial flood and help provide new medical support and products to those who are vulnerable. The facility will be partly reserved for students to develop their
In response to the 2050 flooding the facility will be a necessary component in creating a new meaning to Devonport as being the future of marine based biomed research. Taking into account the uncertainty of the UK’s NHS Departments due to Brexit, An establishment that seeks to trial new treatments could
Due to the National Institute of Health (NIH) being the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, a proposal that is set to develop the future of marine biomed post natural disaster should appeal to their structure in order to
knowledge and skill set in marine based biomed.
benefit the community and wider context..
secure funding.
SCHEMATIC building catalysts spatialising catalysts within context
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MATRIX STUDY The matrix study aims to illustrate the extension to urban life within the urban strategy, when viewed as a larger whole, these include the following; - programmatic specific [research and production]. - programmatic specific [accessible education]. - challenge of ‘norm’ approaches to defence. - weave of resilience [introduction of marsh and hybrid green infrastructure]. - accessibility to the new edge. - re appropriation of existing vulnerable structures.
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1.0 Deconstruction Process
3.0 Implementation of Programmatic Catalysts
The deconstruction process will be the starting point of the master plan to prepare the current MOD area for the early stages of the flooding. Starting this process early will allow the are to be cleared safety whilst preserving important information.
Introducing significant points and planes through the form of strategic catalysts within the new edge and wider context will begin to show and offer the area opportunities to engage with the prospects proposed.
1.1 Construction of Residential
3.1 Strategic Catalysts
To enable the MOD access and ownership to the areas of land that emerge, the current residents will need to be relocated into a new residential scheme situated in a current area of redundancy North of the Devonport Ferry.
A discovery through workshops enhanced the initial thoughts of Devonport being deprived of their historic, cultural and leisure institutions, The Urban strategy will offer strategic catalysts to revive the sense of community and act as anchors to pull people into the site.
1.2 Retrofitting of Existing Office Building To facilitate a live/work opportunity in Devonport the current high rise building sited within the new residential area will be retrofitted into offices for the current and new residents of Devonport. The new office building will also offer a large area to the current occupants of the Millfields site due to future circumstances.
3.2 linking back Currently Devonport is viewed as an area of isolation due to the primary road puncturing the outskirts of the site and continuing through with no opportunity to divert into the area. Using the strategic catalysts and green corridors to enhance the existing green arc will give a clear indication of routes down to the scheme.
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5.0 Weaving of Defence and Landscaping
7.0 marine industry
Due to the current predictions it is an aim of the scheme to weave in resilience in the form of marshlands as a defence strategy to prevent future flooding. The marshlands will aim to reduce the vulnerability of the area and protect the future of the scheme. As the tide moves the defence will become exposed and offer a chance for residents to walk along the waters edge and immerse themselves in the new surroundings.
Within the wider context of Devonport, marine based industries situated within the Plym and other areas subject to the flooding are also vulnerable, with this reasoning these some of these institutions will be incorporated into our waterfront strategy with opportunity to engage through joined up thinking in the field of operation an important factor as Plymouth holds 10% of the marine industry sectors of the UK.
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4.0 Resituating of MOD to Millfields Site
6.0 Construction of Proposed Piers
8.0 other edges
Due to the new edge seemingly bordering the Millbay Park, which is currently owned by the MOD, an opportunity has surfaced to extend the site and allow for the current Devonport site to be partly situated within.
Due to the MOD previously owning the Millfields site, a chance to relocate back into the area has evolved due to rise in sea levels bordering the area, as mentioned in an earlier phase the current occupants will be relocated to the new work/live site in Devonport.
The Urban Strategy suggests implementing a series of piers as part of the catalyst developments and to house the areas in need of relocating. A strategy to enable the piers to be constructed proficiently the existing surface and footprints of MOD buildings will be repurposed as foundations to build up. The piers will give residents opportunities to embrace the notion of Plymouths being labelled an Ocean City, as well as engaging with Devonport and future scheme of oceanography
The flooding will reveal additional new edges in the wider context of Devonport, Light industry linking to the proposed catalysts are proposed to connect the edges and link back to Devonport in the form of. The light industry will house elements of programme by utilising the new edge for testing.
4.1 Evacuation of Stone House Islands Similar to the previous situation a primary location for a large quantity of the existing MOD has surfaced due to the predictions for 2050 sea level rise. The water will form two Islands situated within Royal William Yard that are currently owned by the Ministry of Defence.
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