Adaptive Waterfront Village—Qualifying Urban Resilience at The Living Waterfront in The Semarang Coastal Area

This project establishes a sustainable community located at the most risks-prone area of Semarang, Indonesia. Faced with multiple heavy risks of land subsidence, various types of flooding, and sea level rise, we develop strategies to retreat from the most vulnerable area, restore mangroves to protect the coast, and form a topography as constructed terraces to reorganize the space and integrate multiple nature-based solutions. These measures aim to prolong the lifetime of water usage that could greatly reduce liquefier extraction.

Meanwhile we also develop programs to densify and integrate construction and manufacturing industries with water and waste recycling/ reuse, creating a circular economy system that includes markets and small local businesses. This empowers the community to incremental adapt to their changing environment while acknowledging the dynamic nature of water as both a risk and a resource.

By reimaging the necessary industrial transition that facilitates residential retreat and green infrastructure, we reorganize the industrial space to also support new approaches to building with the water and enables increased public space through improved infrastructure and resiliency. This project highlights quantitative research that informs designs for water consumption demands based on different programs and capacities of diverse green infrastructures.