ABSTRACT
This chapter documents a design case study that advocates a planning resolution at the interface of mitigation and adaptation. Located at the Otaki River mouth, on New Zealand’s Kapiti coastline, the design works in association with dynamic changes of an estuary environment to enable residents of a coastal community to continue to occupy a fragile coastal environment. The design at urban settlement and residential scales accommodates and actively works with the impending fluctuations of landscape as a means to proactively inform and facilitate the design of long-term coastal inhabitation and support a vulnerable coastal communities’ ongoing existence. It advocates synergy and balance between infrastructure and living ecosystems.
