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Collective Potential: A Network of Acupuncture Interventions for Flood Resiliency

Wickramanayaka, Sachini H. K.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1523635632493475

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2018, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
The occurrence of natural disasters has increased in an alarming rate in the past decade due to the increasing effects of climate change. A joint report by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters recorded 3,062 natural flood disasters that occurred around the world between 1995 and 2015, making “flooding” the most commonly occurring natural disaster, and with time the intensity and the frequency of such events will only continue to grow. This is an exploration on how architecture can intervene and facilitate in preserving communities in the face of disaster, specifically in battling floods. “Resilience” is one of the concepts that have been brought forward to be instilled in vulnerable communities to lower the impact from such disasters as a preventative and coping mechanism. While there are number of ways to achieve resilience in the built environment, this thesis aims to create a synthesis between resilience and “urban acupuncture”. It will consider strengthening communities from within, by layering a network of relatively small-scale, fast phased interventions on pre-existing conventional flood preventative large scale engineering infrastructure. By investigating “The Woodlands” a planned neighborhood as a case study, this thesis will argue that large scale water management solutions while extremely important will not suffice as a single solution particularly during a time of frequent and extreme weather events. The different projects will try to synthesize non-architectural aspects such as neighborhood aspirations, requirements, potential and awareness into a network of architectural forms that would collectively increase neighborhood resiliency to floods. If successful the project will translate into a methodology that accepts flooding and water management as part and parcel of daily life.
Elizabeth Riorden, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
114 p.
Architecture
Flooding; Urban Acupuncture; Disaster; Small-scale; Resiliency

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  • Wickramanayaka, S. H. K. (2018). Collective Potential: A Network of Acupuncture Interventions for Flood Resiliency [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1523635632493475

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wickramanayaka, Sachini. Collective Potential: A Network of Acupuncture Interventions for Flood Resiliency. 2018. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1523635632493475.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wickramanayaka, Sachini. "Collective Potential: A Network of Acupuncture Interventions for Flood Resiliency." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1523635632493475

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