Land | Waterscape as projective infrastructure

Land | Waterscape as projective infrastructure: To condition landscape as an infrastructure addressing hydrological uncertainties within deltaic territories

Kanekar, Sahil (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)

Hooimeijer, Fransje (mentor)
Kuzniecow Bacchin, Taneha (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

2017-07-06

The research focuses on developing a system based resilience strategy to manage hydraulic challenges related to pluvial and storm surge flooding in the light of climate change. The project embarks an ecological approach by conditioning landscape into a hybrid infrastructure of green and blue networks which operate across spatial and temporal dimensions. The specificity of this research project lies in the context being in a delta condition. Managing urban storm water which needs to be conveyed, stored and discharged but also the saline sea water which inundates the downstream (temporarily during storm surges or permanently in the process of sea level rise), lies at the core of this research. The highlight of the research is in how the system can accommodate the bidirectional flow of fresh and saline water; and simultaneously improves the built environment for the region.

landscape infrastructure
ecological approach
risk assessment and reduction/management
hydraulic engineering
urban water management
adaptive planning
resilience

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2017 Sahil Kanekar