After Beaches: Designs for Unstable Grounds

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dc.contributor.advisorUtting, Brittany
dc.contributor.advisorFinley, Dawn
dc.creatorBrancaccio, Anna Sophia
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-21T15:23:32Z
dc.date.available2024-05-21T15:23:32Z
dc.date.created2024-05
dc.date.issued2024-04-18
dc.date.submittedMay 2024
dc.date.updated2024-05-21T15:23:32Z
dc.description.abstractBeaches are highly dynamic, shifting hourly, and seasonally with changing tides and weather. This relative instability poses issues for coastal development which relies on fixed ideas of land ownership and construction. As a result, massive coastal defense infrastructures, such as sea walls, jetties, dikes, and bulkheads, have been deployed across these shorelines to fix the ground in place. Rather than preventing change, these fixed or fixing infrastructures accelerate certain kinds of movement, drawing distinct patterns of erosion, flow, and sedimentation into the grounds they occupy. Set in Galveston Bay, on the northeast Texas Gulf Coast, After Beaches: Designs for Unstable Grounds is a proposal for alternative methods for designing and constructing coastal ground based on movement rather than fortification, imagining how a dynamic understanding of ground could shift strategies of coastal development towards more seasonal and provisional approaches. Sediment is borrowed for the construction of temporary public beaches and recreational facilities.
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dc.identifier.citationBrancaccio, Anna. After Beaches: Designs for Unstable Grounds. (2024). Masters thesis, Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/116026
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/116026
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.
dc.subjectBeaches
dc.subjectfishing pier
dc.subjecterosion
dc.subjectarchitecture
dc.subjectinfrastructure
dc.subjectMarshes
dc.subjectGalveston
dc.subjectTexas City Dike
dc.titleAfter Beaches: Designs for Unstable Grounds
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialText
thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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