Living Breakwaters has been selected as one of six resiliency projects by the U.S. The 2014 award of $100,000 has proven to be merely the beginning of steady funding to see this project through. The “living” quality of these seawalls is in the habitat they create for fin and shellfish who help to reduce wave action as well as restore sediment to the shoreline. In response to Hurricane Sandy, Orff and her team at SCAPE put together a conceptual master plan to install 4,000 feet of living surge-blocking seawalls in New York Harbor. Follow the project on the SCAPE website.Īnother of Orff’s exemplary projects dealing with the effects of massive human ecosystem-intervention and climate-change-related-disaster is that of the Living Breakwaters, a project that won Kate Orff the 2014 Buckminster Fuller Challenge award of $100,000. Currently in its second year of community collaboration, the Lowlands’ design team at SCAPE (Kate Orff’s Landscape Architecture firm in New York City) along with the Conservancy will be moving towards a master plan sometime in late 2018. Orff does not disregard industry or human wants and desires, rather she celebrates them by imagining the Lowlands as a biologically and culturally diverse community hub for South Brooklyn residents. A bespoke approach to such projects has been proven far more effective than the top-down delivery of solutions as is evidenced by the thousands of unused ready-made parks across the country that are as neglected as the original land. Orff’s vision incorporates community design methodologies to inform her and her firm of the project’s path. The project, the Gowanus Lowlands in collaboration with the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, embraces the Lowlands in an effort to reclaim what it once was. South Brooklyn, home of the Gowanus Canal (a federally recognized Superfund site) and a hot spot for controversial development practices is the location of landscape architect, Kate Orff’s, most recent vision for a more holistic urban-scape. Introductions, Forewards, and Contributions.Notes On Anne and Bucky Fuller’s Deaths.Eight Strategies for Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science.
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