Projects

Cleveleys Sea Wall

Lancashire, England

Wahyun Village, Geoje, Korea

Lifting Houses, New York and New Jersey, USA

Objectives

Creating protective buffer with vegetation or landforms

Relocating the facilities from high-risk coastal area to low-risk uplands

Upgrading the function while retaining the current location

Strategies

Hard/Soft Protection

Retreat

Accommodation

Methods

Minimizing the division between the village and the coast by improving the coastal scenery and creating interrelated public spaces

Demolishing the damaged coastal residential area and creating a new residential complex in a safer hilly area

Raising the building along the coast to withstand the storm surges and temporary inundation

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