Spatial Water Managment Presentation

Spatial Water Management Dan Williamson M.Arch Thesis

David Karle & Sarah Thomas Karle

1990-present Water Resource Engineer

Urban Designer

Architect

Vladimir Novotny

Iain White

Leon van Schaik

integrated resource management

Recognition of limits

Spatial Intelligence architecture civil engineering

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building construction landscape architecture

urbanism

Paradigm V is an oppotunity to re-align the architect into the spatial issues of water management.

Combined Sewer Overflows continually threaten the Great Lakes

Water Core as is relates to site organization

Roofing Components Roof Surface Fascia Truss system

Grounding Components Floor trusses Foundation walls

Exploded Construction

Shell Components Timber frame Rain-screen drainage layer Rain-screen Water Core overflow system Windows

The relationship between the architect and water management needs to be reconfigured to leverage new spatial, social, and architectural interventions.

The continual resistant and centralized management of urban water has proven to fall short. New decentralized strategies at the architectural scale need to be addressed.

Through accepting water into the built environment, new spatial configurations will surface.