Archinect
Yuhan Xu

Yuhan Xu

New York, NY, US

anchor

DESIGNING FOR POSSIBILITIES, RESILIENCE, AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

The La Boquilla neighborhood occupies a tentative strip of ground between the Cienega de la Viergen and the Caribbean Sea. The connection across this ground is as vital to the saline world of mangroves in the Cienega as the Cienega and sea are to the lives of the fishing community who inhabit this ground. Sea level rise due to global warming, however, is about to transform this ground, fragmenting it into an archipelago. SEAmless Archipelago embraces this transformation toward land fragmentation, working it to create multiple possibilities, build resilience, and empower community. The project introduces five ‘anchors’. Each addresses local community’s needs in the face of environmental change. Each anchors, grows, expands and develops at its own pace and by their own language. Their intersections in the hands of the community, promise to open multiple ecological, cultural, and economic possibilities.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: La Boquilla, CO
My Role: research, concept design, overall design
Additional Credits: Instructor:Dilip da Cunha, Adriana Chavez
Collaborator: Jiaye Li, Yuxuan Wang, Xueyuan Wang