Envisioning Resilience - New Bedford
2023

Featured in Designs for Living with Rising Seas (2024)
New Bedford Art Museum - New Bedford, MA

Collaborator - Olivia Boucher

A re-marshing strategy provides climate resilience in a mixed-use residential and commercial site. Phased planning allows for a new living machine and path network, making a connection with nature and remediation inevitable. This site strategy supports all scales of life in a dignified and respectful manner.

Economic and affordable marsh housing, composed of recycled concrete and lightweight wood, provides a private and comfortable means of retreat. Type A is a 780 square foot two bedroom, two bathroom dwelling. Type B is two units. Unit One is 450 square feet and has one bedroom and one bathroom. Unit Two is 330 square feet and has one bedroom and one bathroom. Strategic path cutouts provide private outdoor spaces, shielded by the growth of marsh vegetation.

Drawings by Olivia Boucher

Michael Earle

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