![]() ![]() The project, which will be completed next year, was developed by SCAPE for Rebuild by Design-a design competition led by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) after Superstorm Sandy. Moreover, provisions of “reef ridges” and “reef streets” take into account the diverse marine life of the bay. These are placed strategically to calm the tides, reduce erosion, and revive the onshore beaches. Nearly 2,400 linear feet of biodiverse breakwaters make up Living Breakwaters, a necklace of structures shaped like small tide pools built from stone and ecologically-enhanced concrete, along the southern shore of Staten Island. Kate Orff, landscape architect and Founding Principal of SCAPE, is the fifth recipient of the OBEL AWARD Image: © SCAPEĪccording to Orff, human and non-human entities must work together in order to design the natural systems of the future. Previous years' winners have been material science lab Seratech’s carbon-neutral concrete (2022) Professor Carlos Menos' urban design proposal 15-minute city (2021) German architect Anna Heringer’s multi-layered building Anandaloy (2020) and Japanese architect Junya Ishigami’s Water Garden (2019). Orff is the fifth honouree to receive the prize for a project 'that helps change our physical, designed environment for the common good'. The 2023 winner is Kate Orff, founder of the New York-based multidisciplinary practice SCAPE, recognised for Living Breakwaters-a green infrastructure project that takes into account and works with non-human entities. The international award which honours exceptional architectural contributions to people and planet, is presented annually by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation. This year’s OBEL AWARD, centered on the theme of ‘adaptation’, deals with this very issue. Architecture and urbanism must adapt to a world in flux. It is critical to acknowledge the multiplicities-flora, fauna, and climate to name a few-that shape our built environment, and look beyond the anthropocentric. It is time we realise that our world is shaped by more than just human forces. The goal of this project is to design and build a full-scale floating breakwater-based on a study of scale models and wave tank data-and carry out a test deployment to assess its effectiveness and potential ecological effects on marine life and harbour habitats.Superstorms, earthquakes, floods-we are living in the age of the climate crisis. This could prove very useful when harbours on the northeast coast of Newfoundland and Labrador and farther north become ice free year-round. ![]() This project will proactively explore the potential use of floating breakwaters as a cost-effective option for minimizing the damage that could result from climate change.įloating breakwaters cost 75 to 80 percent less to build than a comparable fixed rubble-mound breakwater, and they are unaffected by rising water levels, and could be moved to adapt to changing port and vessel needs. The cost of providing and maintaining such infrastructure (particularly protective breakwater structures) is expected to grow as climate change raises sea levels and increases the size and frequency of storms and destructive storm surge events. One responsibility of the Small Craft Harbours Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada is the provision of protected harbours and berthing facilities for commercial fishing vessels. Photo: DFO – NL Region, Small Craft Harbours Branch. The full-scale floating breakwater will be 30-meters long. Fisheries and Oceans Canada is leading a project to build and test a full-scale floating breakwater, based on the one-tenth scale model shown above, which was tested in a wave tank. ![]()
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