ABSTRACT
The Jamaica Bay design team of Structures of Coastal Resilience has identified a holistic set of strategic design recommendations supporting coastal resiliency at Jamaica Bay, inclusive of the Rockaway Peninsula, the central marsh islands, and the tributary inlets at the Back Bay’s interior perimeter. The City College of New York's adaptive design proposals for Jamaica Bay seek to enhance that capability. The Structures of Coastal Resilience Jamaica Bay research team was not structured as an academic studio, but rather as an ongoing experimental research studio within the academic setting at City College of New York's Spitzer School of Architecture. The three proposed design strategies for coastal resilience at Jamaica Bay—flow and circulation, verge enhancement, and the island motor/atoll terrace—have been developed through iterative research using both physical and digital modeling, as well as field investigations. These strategies are conceived as complementary, as well as deployable through an adaptable framework over time.
