Print Email Facebook Twitter Dordrecht Floodscapes Title Dordrecht Floodscapes: Towards the Amphibious City Author Sachsamanoglou, Maria (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor van Loon, F.D. (mentor) Aalbers, K.P.M. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Landscape Architecture Project Flowscapes Studio Date 2018-07-03 Abstract The aim of this project is to explore the possibilities of establishing a new relationship between water and the city of Dordrecht, aiming towards a sustainable future. In one of the lowest parts of the Netherlands, increasingly threatened by climate change and cloudburst flooding, the feasibility of a stormwater management plan is explored, intertwined with urban life through solutions such as inundation parks and floodable zones, seasonal buffers, watersquares and visible waterlines. Drawing inspiration from precedents such as the Copenhagen climate adaptation strategies, the island of Dordrecht can stand up to future challenges, through a water-resilient landscape architecture that succeeds a shift of attitude towards sustainable practices, but also strengthens the identity of Dordrecht as an attractive, historic watercity, designed to work with water, rather than against it. Water, here, becomes an agent able to transform the city into an adaptive, amphibious spatial entity, that can offer alternative urban experiences.Focusing in the area of the 19th century Schil, the city is organized through a system of buffers and waterlines, using existing or new public spaces or parts ofthe urban infrastructure. The traditional enclosed courtyard, the “hofje”, playsa key role together with private gardens and watersquares, being the main watercollectors and leading stormwater to an inundation park through a mazeof waterlines. Visible flooding processes and above-ground waterbodies composean everchanging landscape, a space with infinite faces and atmospheres,highlighting the dynamic nature of Dordrecht and bringing experience to the forefront. Subject AmphibiousFloodscapeWaterCloudburst floodingClimate adaptationSustainabilityNetworkMultifunctionalityAdaptabilityExperienceAttitude shiftUrban lifePublic space To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6d6f1d71-4fce-4354-8359-b7782ada4be5 Coordinates 51.809237, 4.668073 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Maria Sachsamanoglou Files PDF 4616952_Digital_Presentation_P5.pdf 65.89 MB PDF 4616952_Poster.pdf 2.08 MB PDF 4616952_Reflection.pdf 452.55 KB PDF 4616952_Report.pdf 132.34 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6d6f1d71-4fce-4354-8359-b7782ada4be5/datastream/OBJ3/view