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II. Haulover Sandbar

I. The Stiltsville

Miami, Florida

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Narrative Sea Bay Swamp

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VI. Flooding

V. Drum Circle

V. Redneck Yatch Club

IV. Apartments Pools

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Water in Miami Water is vital. It is a basic element that determines our life here on earth. Its relationship to us is one of need and commodity. However it is the topic of many of our fears today. Not enough of it and at times too much. As currents rise we respond by patching dams or moving to higher ground. At a certain point we must look into the possibility of living with water, living in an aqueous environment, inhabiting the edge.

Miami, for it proximity and low elevation, has an intimate relationship with water. In this book, a compilation of locations within Miami and conditions of waters are put in light. From the ocean, sea, and bay to the swamp, mud, and flood. Each one of this conditions, allows for the freedom that otherwise would not be possible. In the end, this research, seeks to flip the idea that we must avoid water at all cost and instead put forward the idea of living with water.

Martin Ignacio Fernandez

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why The Stiltville?

Stiltville is a series of timber constructions in the Biscayne Bay, Florida.

Started during the era of Prohibition in United States in 1920. The locals in Miami started to constructed these infrastructure to be able to consume alcohol, since the law would not apply one mile outside of the continental United States. The Biscayne Bay, became a perfect location to be outside of American Laws. The freedoms allow by the contained wooden construction, extended to even governmental officials, which even though were part of the United States political system, did not agree with the Prohibition Laws.

At one point (1959) there were a community as large as 27 houses. Since then, a series of hurricanes and tear down, has deteriorate each of the construction.

Nowadays, they are a relic to a time, where the separation by the ocean, allow the community to perform activities outside of the laws.

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Jimmy Ellenburg House Balwin Sessions House

Leshaw House

Hicks House

Bay Chateau The last remaining club, it was built during the 1930, as a way to drink outside of continental United States. It is more than 1 mile outside of United States border at the time.

Hicks House The smallest and most enduring house of the remaining houses, the Hicks House has endure multiple hurricanes. Currently is being taken care by 3rd generation of the Hicks family.

A-frame House The A-Frame House was built with timbers from the Methodist Church on Key Biscayne and with lumber salvaged on the flats from the former Quarterdeck Club. The unusual triangular shape is hoped to protect it from storms.

Shaw / Baldwin / Sessions House Designed by three architects, it was the first house to be built with stilts, Currently is abandon, however it’s being used for advertising of many brands (such as paint).

Leshaw House The Leshaw House was owned by Judge Leshaw, it was used as a place for drinking during the provision era. Currently abandon and manage by Biscayne Bay Preservation park.

Jimmy Ellenburg House Jimmy Ellenburg put a barge on the flats in 1939, during this time Governor Leroy Collins was a frequent visitor to conduct activities that were not legal in the Continental U.S.A.

Miami Springs Power Boat Club The Miami Springs Power Boat House was constructed by Miami Springs Police Department and Firefighters Department from a sunken vessel.

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1967 Radio Station

1965 Hurricane Betsy only -50% can remain

1965 Raid Club by State Beverage State

1963 Bikini Club

1959 27 buildings max 1960 Hurricane Donna

1954 Miami Spring Clubhouse

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1930 end Prohibition Era

1928 Quaterdeck Club

1926 Culver Club

1922 Crawfish Shack

1920 start Prohibition Era

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2005 stipulations to create a visitor-center, community space, etc

2003 Creation of caretakers

2001 agreement to make BNP 50% owner

1999 Petition denied 2000 civil movement to maintain

1998 Petition to Historic Places

1993 7 buildings remain 1992 Engineer corp remove debris

1992 Hurricane Andrew

1987 Plans to remove Stiltsville BNP

1980 Biscayne National Park expanded boundary.

1976 BNP lease until 1999

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why Haulover Sandbar?

The Haulover Sandbar is a inland sandbar located in North Miami Beach’s bay. Constructed by the constant push of sand into the bay by the current of the sea. This constant emerging island in the middle of the bay, allows for a series of unregulated activities by the locals.

At points the water is higher up to make it undetectable. At other points, the tide is low enough to created intimate relationship among a few individuals that are able to set foot on. At other points, the tide is low enough to gather multitude of individuals to create one of the largest gathering in North Miami Beach.

The Neutrality of the Sandbar by the lack of capable construction of any formal setting because of the Bay rising, has allow freedoms to emerge.

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Haulover North Miami Beach, Florida

February / 1990 No detection of the sandbar. Boats move in any direction, without regards of the sand lift.

January / 1995 The sand barrier exist. However it is undefined in form.

December / 2004 The sand barrier is exposed, and a channel is visible, at a minimal definition.

January / 2005 The sand barrier is exposed, as well as the channel, no activity at the site.

March / 2010 Activity at the sandbar. Minimal crowd.

April / 2012 Activity at the sandbar. Larger crowd.

January / 2014 The channel is define as well as the sandbar. Largest activity at the sandbar can be detected.

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1950 power boat races

1945 Target practice for army and navy

1927 Bahamas boats haul there for whiskey

1925 creating of the inlet

1920 start Prohibition Era

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speedboat races

why Shark Valley Loop?

Shark Valley Loop is a bike path located in the Everglades National Park.

Constructed firsts as a linear path for the extraction of petroleum by the Humble Oil Comp. Since the extraction of petroleum was not financially double, the path and tower were left of to it’s abandonment.

In the second stage of if history, the path was closed off why the Everglades National Park as a recreational place for visitors to engage with nature.

The situation of the path near the swamp has created two conditions. In the one hand for the human visitors, it provides a hard dry hot surfaces to step on, while being near soft wet cold surface.

In the other hand, for the alligators that live in the park, it has provide a two thermal conditions for them to regulate their temperature.

Together, and while no delineation of safety, it’s blankness has allow for the coexisting of two distinct users. At times, a dangerous relationship.

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Entry Route 4 is the entry point into the park.

Gate House You are greeted by a Gatehouse security officer.

Visitor Center Rental of bicycle, restrooms, and information about the park.

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Either the visitor take the road constructed by the national park or the petroleum excavation.

Patch / Bushes Many different type of fauna can be seen from the road.

Ditches / Offsets Man made construction along the road.

Observatory Sight-seeing tower at the end of the loop.

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1975 visitor center constructed

1970 construction of closed loop

1966 open to the public

1965 Concrete observation tower.

1952 Steel Construction post for Fire watch.

1950 Ranger post at oil well

1947 Everglades National Park established

1946 Humble oil Company drilled for oil

1930 series of hurricanes and dry

1840 Massacre of spanish & indians

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why Apartment Pools?

Apartment Pools are scatter around Miami in every corner that one can turn.

By it banality and lack of official owner, they have become a point of encounter for locals of all ages, ethnicity and background.

The banality or normalcy of each of one of these pools, constructed usually with the most standard pieces of furniture and elements, has allow for the lowering of one guards among strangers.

Many of the most spontaneous conversation that locals have experience while living in Miami has happened in by the mundane conditions that constitute the apartment pools.

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Fence A white fence plastic or metal fence, never truly lock.

Chairs Standard vinyl laying chairs and plastic cheap white chairs.

Tables Class round tables and metal grill tables.

Umbrella / Chlorine umbrellas that have been usually flown away and the smell of chlorine bottles.

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1960 Private Pools

Civil Rights

1954 Brown v. Board of Education

Jim Crow laws

1907 Racquet Club of Philadelphia

1896 Modern Olympic Games

intimate talk

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Fence height

why The Redneck Yacht Club?

The Redneck Yacht Club located in Northwest Miami is a place remove from any major city of Florida. Constructed out of water and dirt, and shelter and hidden by lines of vegetation. It has allow for a freedom rarely found in the Miami. It’s lack of formality and authorities has manifested in a adult type of mud playing among it visitors.

Perhaps the simple notion, that as children the playground has allow for the adrenaline of playing with what it consider dangerous such as mud, while at the same time this simple activity it is an inherited human require upbringing.

The Redneck Yacht Club was an anarchic place. Nowadays, it has become a conventional recreation area.

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1985 no detection of park.

1990 outline of place.

1994 vegetation as outline

1998 soil condition.

2000 park

2010 park evolution.

2017 current.

Bushes as hidden

People mud playing

High Peak for watching

Car Mud playing

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official events happens

park establish as official

populatirte of park grows

people used for recreation

marsh land

brushes for protection

mud playing

hide peak for watching

mud playing

brushes for protection

why Drum Circle?

Drum Circle is a moonlight party located in Miami Beach’s Beach. Known by locals and schedule by the lunar cycles, the gathering has become a moment where locals are able in masses to perform activities in the Beach that at most moments are prohibited.

The Moon act as a signal and as a light, the dark ocean and dark vegetation as buffers from civilization, yet right next to it. The activities such as the consumption of alcohol, fire dancing and playing, and loud noises are only possible because of the series of condition aforementioned which align to created a moment of anarchic, yet so close to authorities.

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Fire as fire.

Instrument blankets and sounds instruments as gathering objects.

Shelter Plants and sand as barriers and concave spaces of shelters.

Tools Fire tools are exhibitions.

Bushes as Protection

Fire as a gather point

Moon Light for visibility

Hidden Dakness

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main gathering

snall gathering

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gathering

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why Flooding?

Hurricanes, high tide, heavy precipitation, and warm waters have created a condition that reshapes a city to it totality. What is roads and sidewalks, were for pedestrian, and for vehicles dissolves. Water at it abundance, erases all sense of territories.

New freedoms emerges, boats are in the streets, cars in the sidewalks, people anywhere is shallow enough to move through. All the planning of a city is reduce to a shear understanding of topographical elevation of waters.

Yet, so common to the locals of Miami.

It is a moment where living with water could be put a test. An amnesic moment for a city that ultimately knows it fate.

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Amnesic FLOODING Miami Beach , Florida

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King : 4 October 18, 2050

Elena : 3 September 2, 1985

Andrew : 5 August 24, 1992

Charley : 4 August 13, 2004

Ivan : 3 September 16, 2004

Wilma : 3 October 24, 2005

Irma : 4 September 10, 2017

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Neutral proposes homogeneity as a medium to enable the emergence of unexpected non-paradigmatic intensities.

Blank poses a design approach devoid of predefined and socioculturally controlled context.

Normal explores how the quotidian can be the sources of a new sublime liberated from the tyranny of the exceptional.

Anarchic discusses if the absences of authority is a possible basis for the design of physical system of organization.

Amnesic argues for the constant recirculation of occupations, sensibilities, and meanings as necessary, for a diverse, rich, and healthy sociocultural environment.

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Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.