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DESIGN FOR RESILIENCEResilience implies adapting to or bouncing back from a disturbance quickly. Resilient planning and design incorporates redundancy and anticipates change over time.

CREATE DOUBLE-DUTY SOLUTIONS

and provide for other uses when idle realizing multiple benefits and maximizing economic, ecologic, and cultural gain.

STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY RESILIENCE Community resilience maintains and enhances the cultural identity that defines a city through resiliency networks and social support systems. Strategies that strengthen social resilience can both cost less and provide meaningful benefits to participants.

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION

LIVING WITH WATER PRINCIPLES

Boston Living with Water is an international call for innovative design solutions and strategies that address the regular coastal flooding expected by the year 2100. Over 340 leading planners, designers, and thinkers submitted proposals for three sites in Boston in response to the challenge of sea level rise and climate change.

SITE 3 | Morrissey Boulevard

SITE 2 | The 100 Acres

SITE 1 | The Prince Building This building represents existing and historic, urban, waterfront buildings and properties that are common in Boston and similar vulnerable coastal cities.

This road represents vulnerable coastal infrastructure that is routed through historic, mixed-use, and new development districts and remains critical to growth and functionality of cities.

This neighborhood site represents urban waterfront mixed-use districts with a mix of existing, historic and new developments set in green and blue public spaces.

The Deer Island Sewage Treatment plant is constructed two feet higher than originally designed in anticipation of sea-level rise

The City of Boston takes first climate actions with direction to reduce municipal greenhouse gas

Tufts and Boston Universities publish the Climate’s Long-Term impacts of Metro

Boston adopts the US Mayors Climate Protection Agree -ment to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve energy

The Union of Concerned Scientists publishes reports on

change, projecting an increase of sea-level and average tempera -tures

Mayor Menino leads the City of Boston to prepare action plans for reduction of dangerous

and incorporates these into the City’s plans for emergency responses and development

The Climate Action Leadership Committee is appointed and prepares comprehensive recom -mendations for the Boston community on climate change mitigation on adaptation

Boston’s municipal agencies are preparing for climate changes with evolving mitigation plans in place and commenc -ing calls for bold Living with Water ideas and grassroots preparation

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The Living With Water competition is a project integrated within the Huxtable Fellowship that focuses on our ability to design, create and develop resilience within the communities of East Boston. Partnering with the Boston Society of Architects, we designed and printed a brochure that would serve as a guide for the competition. The design is a chance to create a piece of information that advocates for conversation and public interest in the actions of Boston’s Sea Level Change.

By creating and developing the document, I led the working process of each meeting and iteration. I graphically networked the vast amount of research collected by our team. With funding from the Fellowship, we were able to print 750 copies and distribute them throughout the BSA and BAC.

Total Resilience ApproachResilient Linkages

Water DistrictThe Prince Building Piers

No building is an islandThe Water Fun(d)

Bountiful Delta: It’s not just resilient

The Omega ChainThe Hydrokinetic Canal as an Urban Generator

ABSORB CHANNEL ELEVATE MOVE BLOCK CONNECT EMPLOY

COMPETITION FINALIST

LIVING WITH WATER GRAPHIC DESIGN

DESIGN | RESEARCHBoston Society of Architects

Boston, MA

DAVIDMORGAN david.morgan@the-bac.edu | 802 779 4633 | 596 Cambridge St. Allston, MA 02134