The Resilient Port

The Resilient Port: Toward a social-ecological integrated estuary and Rotterdam port transformation

Wei, Baokun (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

van Loon, F.D. (mentor)
Sepulveda Carmona, D.A. (mentor)
Radman, A. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism

Urban ecology and eco-cities

2021-07-06

The project envisioned a social-ecological resilient waterfront for Rotterdam. By focusing on the outer dike area of Rotterdam, it aims to protect the port from flooding ,and at the same time create more nature habitat for biodiversity. With creating a resilient river, it can re-realize the role of industry and reconnect them into resource flows, in the end, it will formulate a healthy and liveable social-ecosystem at New River Mass. The vision of the River Mass is firstly to restore the riverfront as the place of ecological importance and also aplace for working, living and recreations. It should be a place for people to come and meet together. In order to achieve that, it implies four strategies including protect, restore, reconnect and grow. Stadhaven is the programmes for applying proposed strategies. In fact, the stadhaven is an area in transition. Over the coming decades, new links between the city and port will be constructed in stadhaven to bridge the port and city, at the same time, develop the economy. It is vulnerable to high water levels since it is part of old harbour complex. The area is on the water which is subject to tidal dynamics and could have transition between River Mass and inner city distcit. Based on that, the systematic strategies could start from the aspects of Nature(sedmiation), densification and open space and access.

Social-ecological resilience
urban ecology
port transformation
Spatial planning and strategy

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Student theses

master thesis

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