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Swamp Suburb
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Swamp Suburb proposes a new settlement pattern which accommodates Floridian Authenticity and an adaptive and equitable relationship with the environment Floridian living attempts to conquer the tropical frontier through traditional suburban thought and settlement – an intense task for as daunting of a landscape as Florida has to offer. Development is done largely through anti-adaptation; recreating a more economically suitable version of nature through plugging the distribution efficiencies of the cul-de-sac into an already unique and well distributed estuarial landscape. This recreation of nature on one hand is arguably authentic and preserves the “tropical frontier” (as alligators on golf courses will attest), yet also arguably inefficient and disregarding to what Florida has to offer even to the hungry maw of sprawl-development. The current settlement pattern, with fingers of artificial coast separating cul-de-sacs erases the sought frontier while creating an even greater surplus of an already plentiful coastline. The Swamp Suburb provides an alternative. In an increasingly connected world, the physicality of infrastructure becomes less and less imposing, yet remains the sole physical form of settlement (this is most evident in satellite images of new developments, with sewers and roads without houses). By providing a non-branching infrastructural system across the natural terrain of a tidal estuary settlement can become the result of the Floridian Tropical Frontier and not the planned grid.Each unit stands on legs, above the tidal waters and is accessible by boat; a reasonable standard in an internet-savvy world with docks already at nearby retail centers. The guts of the house – it’s infrastructural core – is developed initially and containing the necessary utilities (water, gas, electric). As lots are sold, based on location, view, and (relative) exclusivity, the cores are built upon – each one equal, yet able to provide utilities to the wide range of middle-class housing requirements
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