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multi-functional eco-infrastructures for COHABITATION
with climate change
INHABITING the mangrove forest so as to conserve it through a home for the production of
renewable energy, sustainable water, and tasteful food
Carlos h [email protected]/05/2015
beauty
Belize City is a very beautiful Caribbean and central American historical city located in a very beautiful country.
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Risks and impacts
Belize city is exposed to the risks of hurricanes and of flooding from three main sources: 1. the sky, its clouds, and its rain2. the Caribbean sea3. the river
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The mangrove forest
The mangrove forests have historically played an important role in helping to mitigate and adapt to these risks. In a way it has helped to avoid costly investments in grey mono-functional infrastructures
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http://blog.nature.org/science/2013/08/08/mangrove-sea-level-rise-climate-change-adaptation/
Rapid urbanizationThe rapid process of urbanization as well as plans for the expansion of the city (See proposal by The World Bank), are destroying this system of multi-functional eco-infrastructures for climate change adaptation (e.g., the last remaining mangrove forest). The challenge is then to transform these risks into a development opportunity. How?
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It is proposed that The Burdon Canal Nature Reserve be used as a space for sub-Urban expansion plan for Belize City,
2010-2050 (The World Bank)
The Burdon Canal Nature Reserve in Belize is a low lying basin, comprising the backswamps of the Belize River/Haulover Creek delta. It is permanently waterlogged, with a gradient of saline to fresh water arising from regular tidal inundation at the seaward fringe and freshwater flooding from inland. During the dry season, parts of the reserve may become hypersaline. The site's elevation is generally sea level, but rises to approximately 4 ft (1.2 m) along river banks. It receives approximately 75 inches (1,900 mm) to 80 inches (2,000 mm) of rain per year. The tide in the Canal is semi-diurnal, and the water level at the Canal Bridge lags about 2-3 hours behind the centre of Belize City.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdon_Canal_Nature_Reserve List of protected areas of Belize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protected_areas_of_Belize
proposal
Inhabiting the mangrove forest
The local population and the Central American immigrants are responding to the lack of space for housing by inhabiting the mangrove forest
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Proposal
Through inhabitation the locals create a housing typology with a potential to conserve and transform the forest into a multifunctional eco-infrastructure for adaptation to climate change
In their exploratory interaction with the forest, they have evolved a “housing typology” of a productive home that has the potential to conserve the mango-forest as a multifunctional Eco-infrastructure for climate change adaptation
Carlos h [email protected] EXISITNG PALAFITO HOME
(living with water)First improvement (living with water)
ProposalWe propose a further development for the existing typology
Conserving the mangrove-forest through inhabiting it with a home for The production of energy, water and food
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Proposal Evolving typology
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Further improvementPALAFITO HOME ENERGY/SUSTAINABLE
WATER/URBAN AGRICULTURE(closed-loop urbanism)
EXISITNG PALAFITO HOME (living with water) First improvement (living with water)
LEVEL 1LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3
multi-functional eco-infrastructures
for COHABITATION with climate change
INHABITING the mangrove forest so as to conserve it through a home for the production of renewable energy, sustainable water and food
Carlos h [email protected]/05/2015
REFERENCES• Strategic master plan for Belize City
• urban development scenarios for belize city 2010-2030 belizecitycouncil.org/resourcesmodule/.../@random4dc1b261cfd1d/Jan 1, 2011
• HOUSING POLICY IN BELIZE: DIAGNOSIS AND GUIDELINES FOR ACTION Dr. Shlomo Angel Housing Policy Advisor to the World Bank, Prepared for the Government of Belize and the World Bank New York, January 2010. http://sollyangel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2010-Housing-Policy-in-Belize.pdf
• The Burdon Canal Nature Reserve in Belize, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdon_Canal_Nature_Reserve
• List of protected areas of Belize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protected_areas_of_Belize
• Convenient Solutions to an Inconvenient Truth Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Climate Change. 2010 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/2686/518380PUB0Clim101Official0Use0Only1.pdf?sequence=1
Thank you Carlos h [email protected]
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multi-functional eco-infrastructures
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COHABITATION with climate change
INHABITING the mangrove forest so as to
conserve it through a neighborhood and a home
for the production of renewable energy,
sustainable water and food
16/05/2015
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