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Sea Garden City
Sea Garden City pays tribute to Sir Ebenezer Howard’s concept of the Garden City . Developed in 1898, Howard’s concept of a newagrarian urbanism Integrates the residential and industrial fabric of the city with a series of landscape elements or “green belts” in theproduction of an entirely self-contained and self-supporting urban environment.Similarly, Sea Garden City mixes urban fabric with a variety of landscape elements, including agricultural belts and salt-water filtrationponds, in the production of a self-contained, self-supporting city on the sea. Additionally, our proposal incorporates certain aspects ofanother iconic agrarian urban proposal from the early twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City. Wright envisioned a vastsystem of transportation and telecommunication networks for the circulation of bodies and information. Similarly, our proposal envisionsa dense web of circulation networks for the transportation of humans, resources, information, and energy.Unlike Howard’s centralized plan, Sea Garden City is decentralized. Comprised of a series of large-scale urban loops, each of whichcontain their own population of residents, Sea Garden City’s plan is in constant flux, assembling and reassembling into a variety ofpolycentric patterns of organization. In this respect, the city’s urban grid is inherently elastic, capable of adjusting to a wide variety of internalas well as external pressures, such as the fluctuation of population densities and complex weather patterns related to the ocean.Sea Garden City responds and adjusts in both plan and section to the dynamic topography of the ocean. Sea Garden City is flexibleand form a fluctuating field of agricultural zones, rainwater collection ponds, and salt-water filtration systems.Each urban loop shelters an interior body of water, which in addition to supporting human forms of activity, such as fishing or recreation,provides a zone for wildlife inhabitation protected from the harsh conditions of the ocean environment. Additionally, clusters of urbanloops along with fields of agricultural belts can be configured to produce large-scale “ocean lagoons” within the interior zones of the city,each of which provide a protected habitat for human as well as non-human forms of occupation.
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