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The thesis focuses on the design of coastal single family housing typology and its incremental aggregation to form both a self protected community and an artificial landscape to deal with sea level rise in 300 year scenario.
Throughout history people used to build houses on mounds to protect homes from floods. The mounding strategy is replaced by more effective and efficient flood control infrastructure and stilt housing typology, but their lack of reciprocity and transferability unfolds the possibility of fusion of housing, infrastructure and landscape typology in the future context of radical climate change and over 20 feet sea level rise in 300 years.The proposed new coastal housing typology and incremental mounding strategy transfer the housing unit below sea level into the new ground for future construction of housings, as well as synthetic landscape for public activities. This contemporary mounding strategy creates an archipelago prototype for future coastal residential development, as “rise with the sea”. -
Type: residential
Trajectory: academic work (individual_Arch 662 Thesis Studio_University of Michigan)Instructor: Michael JeffersonLocation: Holly Beach, LA, USYear: 2017Client: N/AProgram: housing, landscapeStatus: schematic design -
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Fig 1_Gulf Coast sea level rise projection map
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Fig 2_existing site plan of Holly Beach, Louisiana
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Fig 3_stilt housing on site
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Fig 4_sea level rise projection in 300 years & proposal of incremental mounding to rise with the sea
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Fig 5_single family housing typology & connection + unit models
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Fig 6_typical unit plans (2 & 3 bedroom compact, standard, deluxe)
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Fig 7_unit incremental aggregation in 50 year phasings
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Fig 8_highlighted unit models of 2267-2317
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Fig 9_current site plan
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Fig 10_proposed site plan
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Fig 11_2017-2067 aggregate plan
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Fig 12_2067-2117 aggregate plan
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Fig 13_2117-2167 aggregate plan
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Fig 14_2167-2217 aggregate plan
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Fig 15_2217-2267 aggregate plan
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Fig 16_2267-2317 aggregate plan
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Fig 17_2317 site plan
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Fig 18_site model
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Fig 19_site model
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Fig 20_site model
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Fig 21_site model
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