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Climate changes are unequivocal, what is alarming instead is the acceleration of those changes during the last decades. A different Planet Earth is emerging, with new geographies and new relations among territories, economic systems and political powers.

The image above shows the sea-level rise in Göteborg up to 2250. Many areas along the waterfront will be a completely different city.

The design proposal focuses on a territorial preservation strategy. Resilience and resistance are combined together to explore a solution to the rising sea. Water is no longer regarded as a danger, but instead as a primary factor for the future urban development: a new infrastructure, a leisure element, an economic opportunity, a way to increase the quality of the environment. Frihamnen, an abandoned area of the port of Göteborg, is the test site for the preservation strategy. It consists of two main elements: an inhabited border that will increase its own height according to sea-level rise to protect the inner land, and a core with a flexible programme able to develop according to the future conditions and changing needs of the society.

from:

Ö. A proposal for the preservation of Göteborg from sea-level rise.

supervisors: Prof. Subhash Mukerjee, Prof. Francesca Governa

Master’s thesis in Architecture

Politecnico di Torino

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