The consequences that climate change presents to the future natural and built environment of the Netherlands have led to a new study on urbanism titled 'WHAT-IF: Nederland 2100,' produced by a trio of Dutch studios that includes MVRDV, IMOSS, and Feddes/Olthof. The research is aimed at adaptability and features a series of feasible plans to greet such challenges while showing how the country can "live with nature, provide housing and quality of life, protect its cultural heritage, and adapt its economy to a new normal."
Importantly, the authors say, these pragmatic potential solutions can be studied and applied to the situations of nearly 900 million global residents who are similarly imperiled by their lives in low-lying areas.
A 'decision matrix' is employed to answer all possible scenarios, including the maximum predicted global warming. In the end, the cities in the east become 'hyper-dense,' while the currently more populated large cities in the west are protected by large raised dikes around their historic centers and defined by a waterborne "new reality" in the post-war residential suburbs directly outside of them.
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Are these trees on the buildings genetically modified? Yes, asking for a friend.
Nature = cluttered mess? "Natural" designs like this are unnatural.
I thought the goal should be to create a synthesis of the built environment and the natural. This design lets "nature" take over. And the impression one would get walking beneath all these wildly cantilevered floors (second photo) is of peril, maybe impending doom.
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