04/21/2014
Miami Resiliency
Miami Resiliency: Adapting Residences for Climate Change is a design competition structured to engage participants in a case study of Miami residences.
These studies will serve as models for climate affected adaptation. ad·ap·ta·tion noun
1: adjustment to environmental conditions (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
Miami Resiliency: Adapting Residences for Climate Change is a design competition structured to engage participants in a case study of Miami residences. Participants will create renderings of one of two provided home sites representing Miami’
04/21/2014
04/10/2014
Vote here to promote education and action in Miami in the face of rising sea levels!
(Public Space Challenge)
http://ideas.ourmiami.org/place/171990
Rising with the Sea Level of Miami We will turn this old, dilapidated house into a model of simple environmental resilience and sustainability. We will raise the foundation of the house in order to bring it well above the rising sea and flood levels. Then we will perform various inexpensive landscape changes and building retrofits, s...
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12/19/2013
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12/19/2013
11 U.S. Cities Tapped to Spur 'Climate Resiliency' Action Worldwide American cities on the frontline of climate action are quietly but dramatically shifting their approach—from primarily trying to limit global warming to coping with its impacts. They're building forested buffers to shelter homes from wildfires, considering concrete sea walls to restrain ocean waters...
11/18/2013
Overtown Site:
Winner: #37 Jiajing Cao and Isabel Sarmiento
Honorable Mention: #40
Stephanie Riofrio, Gerardo Delgadillo, Ariana Melendez, and john Gonzalez
Honorable Mention: #58
Matthew Smith, Rhys Gilbertson, Ebrahim Alkalifa, and Erron Estado
11/18/2013
Little Havana Site:
Winner: #64 Maria Eduarda Oliviera, Katja Kuznik, Nicolas Alcega, Mingxuan Qin
Honorable Mention: #41
Smitha Vasan, Fadak Dashti, Mary Wissinger and Corey Weiss
Honorable Mention: #48
Jessica Stefanick, Sebastian Torrente, Lacey Stansell, and Amanda Ai
Honorable Mention: #53
Danielle Todd, Alexandra Babowice, Jaimie McPhedran
11/14/2013
Congratulations, Alice Jiajing Cao and Isabel Sarmiento, winners for the Overtown Site!
11/14/2013
Congratulations, Maria Eduarda Oliviera, Katja Kuznik, Nicolas Delgado Alcega, and Mingxuan Qin, winners for the Little Havana Site!
11/14/2013
Thanks all for the great event!! We're so happy to have AIA Miami and FIU friends stop by our home :)
Photo credit: Greg Hamra
A huge THANK YOU to all participants! Your entries look great and the jury was very impressed!
Come see the work displayed in the Koarach Gallery and hear winners announced tomorrow, Wednesday November 13th at AIA's "Miami as a Climate Resilient City"
Winners and honorable mentions will be posted online after Wednesday, as well.
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