Interdependences and the Role of Technology in Critical Infrastructure Coordination: Resilient Design Solutions Thomas G. Dallessio AICP/PP Executive Director, Next City Outgoing Director, Center for Resilient Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology Presentation to: NGA Learning Lab on Enhancing State Energy Assurance Coordination May 14, 2015 Photo: Hoboken photo credit: betterwaterfront.org
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October 29, 2012: Sandy Hits New Jersey
Photo: Sea Bright, 3/4/13
Hoboken Terminal photo credit: www.heavy.com
Hurricane Irene in Paterson 2011 photo: articles.philly.com
Hurricane Irene Flooding photo: photos.nj.com
Photo courtesy of City Center
What are we protecting? People? Property? What risks are we willing to accept? Are we prepared for 100-year, 200- year, 500-year events? And, for what?
photos: Union Beach, 05/30/13
Goals Short-term: Complement work underway to recover and (re)build sustainable and resilient homes, businesses and public facilities Long-term: Mobilize a comprehensive approach to construction and reconstruction Understand the potential for natural disasters Learn the lessons from this and previous disasters Implement resilient design solutions
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Sandy measures where possible, hard stuctures only in extreme cases Dynamic preservation Channel Slope Nourishments Nourishment of tidal flats Mega nourishments www.deltacommissaris.nl/english
Dan Gans NJIT Resilient Design Roundtable 4/10/13
What have we learned and what can we do differently? Dan Gans NJIT Resilient Design Roundtable 4/10/13
New Jersey Town Centers Distributed Energy Resource Microgrids Potential: Statewide Geographic Information Systems Analysis Identified 24 town centers in 17 municipalities across the 9 Sandy-affected counties in New Jersey. These town centers were narrowed down from a list of 62 hotspots and groupings that resulted from a Cluster-Outlier analysis in ESRI s ArcGIS. Research in collaboration with Regional Plan Association.
Adam Morgan Option Studio NJIT FIELD TESTING Your text here Anton Mazyrco Option Studio NJIT Arch 464 Option Studio Emergent Materials Reactive Environments Martina Decker Material Dynamics Lab
Adam Morgan Options Studio NJIT
Sea Bright Sea Wall Adam Morgan Options Studio NJIT Three-dimensional Photoluminescent Polymer
Anton Mazyrko Options Studio/NJIT
Anton Mazyrko Option Studio NJIT
Lucy Huerta Resilient Coastal Housing Studio/NJIT Honorable Mention
Lucy Huerta Resilient Coastal Housing Studio/NJIT
Lucy Huerta Resilient Coastal Housing Studio/NJIT
Link shore to urban core with a raised pedestrian corridor Office of Emergency Mgmt and Disaster Recovery Center New infrastructure intended as catalyst for development
Plan future development vertically, raised out of flood zone 1-2 stories above grade Create pervious public open space below; improve water management Build public utilities into bridge structure to protect from damage
Professor Georgeen Theodore Better Boroughs, Resilient Regions Studio
Mapping Vulnerabilities: Effects of Sea Level Rise in Hoboken
Proposal: Create a Decentralized Water Management and Treatment District
Galveston,Texas 1871
Hoboken, NJ c. 1881
Venice, 17 th Century
Le Corbusier, Venice Hospital Project 1964
makecalgary.org Calgary Flood 2013
World Habitat Day 2013, WUF7 and World Cities Day 2014 AIA New York
Goals: 1. Focus on Regional Scale & Solutions 2. Increase Resilience 3. Develop and Promote Innovation 4. Connect to Local Efforts
5 Characteristics of Resilient Systems: Aware knowing strengths and assets, liabilities and vulnerabilities, and threats and risks Diverse surplus of capacity Self-Regulating people behave and interact in ways to continue functioning to the city s purpose, dealing with anomalous situations and interferences without extreme malfunction, collapse or disruptions Integrated bringing together disparate thoughts and elements into cohesive solutions and actions Adaptive capacity to adjust to changing circumstances
Spring 2015 Studio, Honors Seminar and Infrastructure Planning in Practice Seminar Designs and Ideas to: Protect and Repurpose the Historic Transit Terminal and Immigrant Building Design a New Annex to Accommodate 6 New Tracks (and possibly new development above) Continue the Hudson River Walkway and Create New Opportunities for Public Space That Is Resilient and Protects Surrounding Areas Summer Internships and Final Report
Understand current and future conditions Test federal, State and local regulations and policies Design new prototypes for housing, mixed use development and public facilities Imagine new ideas for using cutting-edge materials
From Sustainable to Resilient: What went right? What went wrong? What almost went wrong?
Live With Water
Next City Daily Has Floating Architecture s Moment Finally Arrived? By Rachel Keeton Resilient Cities October 1, 2014 In a quiet, shady street in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, Koen Olthuis and the design team at Waterstudio are changing the world. From this deceptively nondescript headquarters, Waterstudio is designing the cities of the future. If Olthuis has his way, they will be safer, more flexible and more resilient than current cities. How will he do this? Olthuis is designing floating cities. As we sit down at the table, the busy office buzzing around us, my first question to Olthuis is direct: How realistic are floating cities? Olthuis grins and nods, he s heard this question before.
For U.S. Cities, Every Week Is Infrastructure Week By Cathleen Kelly Op-Ed May 12, 2015 http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/infrastructureweek-congress-funding-bridges-roadswater-in-cities
Deane Evans Executive Director 973.596.8443 (office) deane.evans@njit.edu www.centerforresilientdesign.org Tom Dallessio AICP/PP Executive Director 267.239.0762 (office) 609.647.1538 (cell) tom@nextcity.org www.nextcity.org