Avani Project Book Final

SALT OR NOT? Most coastal cities will experience floods of saltwater when climate change has accelerated past the point of seawall protection. As a result, we have planned our marine agricultural system around saltwater crops. However, some coastal cities meet the water in the form of rivers or lakes. To accomodate these city models, we have a secondary agricultural plan which makes greater use of hydroponics. — 99 —

Natural Stage 3 REWILDING Due to increased levels of coastal flooding, Stage 3 will be characterized by the recolonization of the city by native aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems that will provide us with numerous ecosystem services to form a city that grows with nature. ELEVATED WALKWAYS The middle layer would be electric public transit vehicles. Early in Stage 3 we would construct elevated walkways The highest layer would be the and public transit to prepare for unmanned cargo carriers. the rising sea levels. To connect the archipelago of buildings Later in Stage 3 as cities begin to to one another we propose get denser, the goal would be to the construction of a new emphasise walkability and with connective tissue of elevated the layout of the city becoming walkways, public transit and increasingly multi use, one won’t unmanned cargo channels. need to travel larger distances to fulfill their needs. This would The lowest layer would be redefine movement in the city. pedestrian walkways that span buildings. These walkways would have wider platforms to act as areas of public congregation. — 100 —

EARLY STAGE LATE STAGE — 101 —



The Future



Retro— spective Let’s take one more comprehensive look at our case study and our city. — 105 —

Case Study — 106 —

MULTI–USE, BIODIVERSE, FARMING MODULE, GREEN SPACE, SOCIAL SPACE, ADAPTIVELY AWARE, BIOPHILIAC, BROWNFIELD, BORN AGAIN — 107 —

The City — 108 —

Here’s a flyover view of what our Stage 3 city could look like. You might be thinking that this looks dystopian or apocalyptic, with the flooding and the overgrown green spaces. — 109 —

BUT ISN’T IT? Not exactly. Unfortunately for us, climate change has ensured that coastal flooding is an inevitable part of our future. And it’s beyond clear massive reform is needed to steer us away from our current unsustainable trajectory. Since many of these elements are happening no matter what, we’ve chosen to embrace them. But we dont’ see that as a bad thing, and certainly did not create this project to be a dystopia. If this is how our future will be, we want to maximize how incredible that could be, instead of dwelling on the collective selfishness that led us to this position. SO NOW WHAT? We’ve chosen to fortify our flooded cities and optimize them for the incoming water, because abandoning that level of infrastructure would be an expensive mistake and a bad precedent for future cities. We’ve chosen to put the people of our city first, with safety, shelter, and stability all crucial elements of our social level. We’ve allowed nature to reclaim our city to enact a truly collaborative future city which exists in tandem with local ecologies, not in spite of it. — 110 —

We’ve designed this module because we choose to believe in our futures, and will do the best we can to see them through.

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