Wild Future for Houston bayous
Wild Future for Houston bayous
TYPE:
GSD Landscape Studio, Distinction
YEAR: 2016
TEAM: Xun Liu, Ziwei Zhang
INSTRUCTOR: Chris Reed
PUBLICATION: GSD Platform 10, GSD website
YEAR: 2016
TEAM: Xun Liu, Ziwei Zhang
INSTRUCTOR: Chris Reed
PUBLICATION: GSD Platform 10, GSD website
Lars Lerup describes Houston as “ The commingling of nature and machines, be there houses cars, or skyscrapers, set on a prairie,on this crudely gardened version thereof, results in a Houston that is fully neither nor tree.” Here we find the two dominantmachines are the highway system and the Bayou system. The natural flow runs in-between these two systems. But actually neither of these two systems are organically related to the flow. Firstly, Bayou fails to mitigate the flood situation, what’s morethe maintenance of the river bank is quite high. Secondly, From the map we can see that there are amount of the intersections between Bayou and highway, a great number of pier structuresare pinned down to the bayou directly. Actually the bridge structure in the flow is a huge engineering problem, because the flow will cause the bridge scour, which is hazardous to the stability of bridge. Houston is proposing to expanding the highway systems, which meaning more bridge crossing along the bayou. So we rethink Lerup’s drawing where he depicts two oceanic.
