CO/R
CITIES ON RIVERS
RESEARCH +
DEVELOPMENT
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MAINZ ZOLLHAFEN - READING
THE FLOOD PLAIN
The Zollhafen Mainz is statistically flooded every 100 years.
In an interdisciplinary student workshop planned for fall 2010,
we want to adress the question how this relatively rare, but
possibly severe flood event can become readable in the open
spaces and their infrastructure. From objects such as the water
gauge or a flood adapted petrol station for the mooring boats,
to the evacuation route and the open spaces - how can this flood
plain development create awareness and readability for an event
not to be predicted? |
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RHINE CITIES - URBAN FLOOD
INTEGRATION (UFI)
Urban Flood Integration (UFI) along the Rhine – Spatial Strategies
is an investigation
of urban development in combination with flood management. Is
it possible to combine urban river front renewal with spatial
flood management strategies? Could these programs be capable
of producing urban qualities and reducing economic damage potential
while obliging to the constraints set by the river as a navigation
channel? Between the Alps and the North Sea, between Basel and
Rotterdam, the Rhine as an economic development corridor since
Roman times has been subject to severe anthropogenic manipulations....
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MAINZ ZOLLHAFEN - PROJECT
DEVELOPER'S GUIDE
The project developer’s handbook for the Zollhafen Mainz is
a criteria catalogue. It provides the potential developer with
information on the model topography of the specific plot and
the criteria for its flood adaptive development .. |
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PLUG - IN - POOL
’Plug-In-Pool’ as a prototype for the industrially transformed
river, aims to make swimming in the river possible again. The
current and the varyiing water levels as parameters aim to generate
a new design for the conventional river pool typology where
the river water is filtered to generate bathing water quality...
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This project aims at
dismantling the apparent contradiction between the attractiveness
of urban water fronts with the concern for flood prevention
and safety. The attractiveness
of water fronts is confirmed by the eternal desire to live and
work in the direct vicinity of
the river, which also shows in the achievable land prices along
water fronts. Cologne is a
city situated on the Rhine. Yet, the channelling of the Upper
Rhine and its inherent acceleration
of the water flow denies any interaction between city and river.
The river allows only a panoramic
view of the adjacent water front. Only during periods of flooding
are river and city interacting.
How can this quality be integrated into urban planning projects
without creating the
corresponding damage? |
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