Design II

Berin Nur Kocabas ( M Arch ) Yi Zhang ( M Arch )

The ‘Design II: Ecological Urban Design’ seminar, aims to understand the concept of experimenting and creating system logics for ecologically sensitive settlements. These settlements are designed considering the urban tissues in extreme climates and ecological contexts. The site is situated at the Hoo Peninsula; it is in the intertidal zone and mostly covered with marshes, considering these, the project will integrate wetlands and their intricate hydrological reservoirs while integrating tower clusters and relative landscape strategies. 

The experimentation and research for the design problem is conducted in three particular stages that focus on a different scale and complexity levels to generate design solutions. In the first stage, primary strategic decisions are made by analyzing the variations in river flow, tide levels, storm surge water height, wind, and temperature fluctuations. Stage two is designed for conducting experiments for landscape/waterscape infrastructures while planning the tower cluster qualifications utilizing function and capacity. The final stage is applied on a larger scale after the initial strategies are analyzed and modified. Experiments are revised, final principal decisions on environmental and landscape strategy are made, including tower cluster morphology and infrastructure.