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Natural Water Infrastructure: Integrating Nature Water Systems into Existing Infrastructure

Lenarduzzi, Laura
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1636388184370583

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2021, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
With the ever-increasing threat of water scarcity due to climate change, the way in which humans distribute, manage, treat, and perceive freshwater resources poses great significance when building efficient water infrastructure. In an era of technological breakthroughs in sustainability and green infrastructure, combined with a rise in environmental activism and awareness, developing infrastructure that protects, preserves, and enhances our relationship with water is not only possible but also promising. However, various problems stem from poor water infrastructure, the most pressing including flooding, hard path water systems, stormwater runoff, and combined sewage overflows (COS’s). Sustainably improving water infrastructure has a personal incentive to me because problems resulting from inadequate water infrastructure are more prevalent in my home state. For example, throughout the entire US, the worst flooded basement problems are all in Ohio, in order of Toledo, Cincinnati, and Columbus. This research paper proposes that “naturalizing,” or the process of integrating natural water systems into existing industrialized water infrastructure, can be a solution to improving failures in our current water systems, which contribute to the exacerbation of climate change. It is important to state, the traditional denotation of the word architecture refers to designing a building or structure, however for the sake of this paper, architecture applies to a large geographic region, which includes buildings and structures as part of the overall water infrastructure. The master plan involves the naturalization of a 2.25-mile concrete channel of West Fork Mill Creek in Cincinnati, Ohio, which runs along I74. There are eight total sites of intervention within the master plan. The need for the naturalization process is highlighted by a critical analysis of each site’s water infrastructure failures. When supporting the argument of naturalizing systems, a series of techniques for the naturalization process are applied to each site, supported by examples that serve as precedents of other sites with similar environmental agendas. Social, economic, and most importantly, various environmentally friendly ethos are fabricated into eight design principles, which serve as foundational bylaws when transforming the industrialized water infrastructure in all eight sites into an environmentally healthy oasis that renders nature’s system when effectively and sustainably managing water.
Vincent Sansalone (Committee Member)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
101 p.
Architecture
Natural Infrastructure; Green Infrastructure; Water Systems; Water; Naturalization; Infrastructure

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  • Lenarduzzi, L. (2021). Natural Water Infrastructure: Integrating Nature Water Systems into Existing Infrastructure [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1636388184370583

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lenarduzzi, Laura. Natural Water Infrastructure: Integrating Nature Water Systems into Existing Infrastructure. 2021. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1636388184370583.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lenarduzzi, Laura. "Natural Water Infrastructure: Integrating Nature Water Systems into Existing Infrastructure." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1636388184370583

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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© 2021, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Natural Water Infrastructure: Integrating Nature Water Systems into Existing Infrastructure by Laura Lenarduzzi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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