UBC Environment & Sustainability // Architecture
Our site looks at the future of Olympic Village and False Creek, embracing the rise in sea level that has often been approached with rigid, monotonous design (the seawall) to mitigate flooding. However, we consider water as the important element that could enrich and redefine this neighbourhood (and thus Vancouver's culture and urban identity), and preserving current protective structures only interferes with possible human-marine environment interactions.
A series of hand-drawn diagrams that explain our "Urban Island System".
Iteration
After a few rounds of feedback from urban designers, we have since evolved our concept and clarified what type of interventions would be done to achieve this "vision" in the future. Using key design principles and urban design methodology, we have targeted the recently developed parks adjacent to the water as our prototype for a waterway intervention.
