Unit 6: Housing Solutions

🌊 Coastal cities need architectural and engineering solutions to address issues like rising sea levels, disappearing land, and severe storms.

🌪️ Traditional methods like dikes and levees have been used, but they are not always effective in preventing flooding, as seen in Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

🌿 Maintaining wetlands can help reduce the impact of rising water levels and storms on cities.

1️⃣ Architects in Hamburg design buildings with parking garages on the lowest floors to protect against rising water levels.

2️⃣ Different areas in the city are categorized based on their flood risk, with one zone designated for flooding, one for rare flooding, and one that will never flood.

3️⃣ Dutch architects, like Kuhn Alturus, have expertise in designing flood-resistant structures due to the majority of the Netherlands being below sea level.

🚢 The Dutch use houseboats as a solution to living on limited land.

⛵ Water Studio builds floating structures using cruise ship technology in the Netherlands.

🏝️ Water Studio is working on a resort project in Dubai and a school in Bangladesh.

🏢 Portable buildings can be moved and repurposed for various locations and events.

🏛️ This idea could be useful for hosting the Olympics, as it would eliminate the need for building new structures.

🌍 The concept of portable buildings offers potential solutions for housing in different locations.