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A little entry to the 2010 eVolo Skyscraper (of the future!) Competition.www.andrewbrorson.com has the entire entry.This project is working under the assumption that there may be no way
to stop the melting of the West Antarctic ice shelf. Partly in an
effort to remain as apolitical as possible, and moreso in an effort to
study the physical possibilities of inundation, the project focuses on
the “what” of this assumption instead of the “why.” What will happen to
Miami and other low lying coastal cities if climate change reaches a
level “such that ice sheets begin to disintegrate in a rapid, non-linear
fashion on West Antarctica and Greenland?” Physicist James Hansen of
NASA, in a 2007 article for New Scientist magazine, stated that such a
scenario would be unstoppable once started. Multiple positive feedbacks
acting on the melting process and surrounding oceans would accelerate
the depletion of the Antarctic shelf and contribute to a projected
average sea level rise of several meters. Such change could happen
within the span of a century. This would affect different coasts in
different ways. Projections for the Florida coasts vary, due to the
many variables involved, but this project puts it high enough to
inundate most real estate within downtown Miami and surrounding
neighborhoods and the Keys.
If one takes this as an inevitability, the notion of an
architectural reaction becomes intriguing. If there were adequate
enough of a warning that large swaths of the city were to become
uninhabitable in the traditional sense, what could be proposed to both
adapt to and capitalize on these new conditions? This project has taken
the shape of a proposal for adaptation. A skyscraper as deployment of a
slightly altered way of dwelling, post-inundation. A center for
exploring, educating, disassembling, bartering, and a place from which
to start understanding the new state of the world’s coasts.
to stop the melting of the West Antarctic ice shelf. Partly in an
effort to remain as apolitical as possible, and moreso in an effort to
study the physical possibilities of inundation, the project focuses on
the “what” of this assumption instead of the “why.” What will happen to
Miami and other low lying coastal cities if climate change reaches a
level “such that ice sheets begin to disintegrate in a rapid, non-linear
fashion on West Antarctica and Greenland?” Physicist James Hansen of
NASA, in a 2007 article for New Scientist magazine, stated that such a
scenario would be unstoppable once started. Multiple positive feedbacks
acting on the melting process and surrounding oceans would accelerate
the depletion of the Antarctic shelf and contribute to a projected
average sea level rise of several meters. Such change could happen
within the span of a century. This would affect different coasts in
different ways. Projections for the Florida coasts vary, due to the
many variables involved, but this project puts it high enough to
inundate most real estate within downtown Miami and surrounding
neighborhoods and the Keys.
If one takes this as an inevitability, the notion of an
architectural reaction becomes intriguing. If there were adequate
enough of a warning that large swaths of the city were to become
uninhabitable in the traditional sense, what could be proposed to both
adapt to and capitalize on these new conditions? This project has taken
the shape of a proposal for adaptation. A skyscraper as deployment of a
slightly altered way of dwelling, post-inundation. A center for
exploring, educating, disassembling, bartering, and a place from which
to start understanding the new state of the world’s coasts.
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