Osumi Island
This competition is based on a test site and is looking for ways of making places resilient. It is using design as a tool to search for best possible solutions of resilience in riverside conditions. It is also looking for ways of developing natural landscapes and defining ‘urban by nature’. Being a test site, it means that the findings of the process can be shared with many other similar context or sites that are at a flooding risk zone and lack features of being resilient. In this perspective, this exercise serves more than the city of Berat. The proposals might become an inspirational source for other sites in Albania or beyond its borders.
This competition is based on a test site and is looking for ways of making places resilient. It is using design as a tool to search for best possible solutions of resilience in riverside conditions. It is also looking for ways of developing natural landscapes and defining ‘urban by nature’. Being a test site, it means that the findings of the process can be shared with many other similar context or sites that are at a flooding risk zone and lack features of being resilient. In this perspective, this exercise serves more than the city of Berat. The proposals might become an inspirational source for other sites in Albania or beyond its borders.
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<strong>Osumi</strong> ISLAND<br />
1. Larger Waterbed<br />
2. Urban Protection<br />
3. Slope Stabilization & Erosion Control.<br />
Protection<br />
1. Larger Waterbed. In critical locations the waterbed can be enlarged,<br />
giving more space to the water and therefore decreasing the pressure on<br />
the land. The dug river deposit material can be used for the construction<br />
of dikes and for coastal consolidation.<br />
2. Urban Protection. Sensitive urban areas are protected with dikes that are<br />
active and accessible parts of the river park. Their realization should use as<br />
much as possible the material found in the river basin itself, for instance,<br />
the sediments excavated from the riverbed enlargement operations.<br />
3. Slope Stabilization & Erosion Control. Less stable areas of the water<br />
basin have to be secured. The mechanical characteristic of the radical<br />
systems of trees and shrubs can consolidate the slope and control the<br />
erosion while enriching the local flora.<br />
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uNLAB + OpenFabric + CoRDA + TU Delft
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