Between City and Sea : Multi-trophic Mariculture as Urban Intertidal Catalyst

Abstract

Urban waterfronts can do more than retain the land in spite of the sea. This design project explores and applies multi-trophic mariculture as a means towards enlivening and broadening the disappearing gradient between city and sea. Through the strategic integration of multi-trophic mariculture into a degraded and beleaguered public waterfront, this design research leverages the processes of sediment accretion and intertidal expansion to afford synergistic cohabitation within this living place and dynamic threshold.