Medicine Gardens of Aquarius
Megan Dobinson
Master of Architecture,
University of Newcastle, 2020
This project is explores the transformation of coastal settlements from human-centric urban and suburban occupation, to the tidal medicine garden. Predicted sea level rise data over the next 80 years reveals Swansea, a humble town at the mouth of Lake Macquarie, will be underwater in 30 years. Medicine Gardens is a simulation how humans might respond to this crisis by combining a ‘managed retreat’ and ‘living shoreline’ strategies at the suburban domestic scale.
The following process of transformation is explained using the archetypal seasonal changes we recognise as Winter (the flood), Spring (sowing), Summer (abundance) & Autumn (harvest).
Master of Architecture,
University of Newcastle, 2020
This project is explores the transformation of coastal settlements from human-centric urban and suburban occupation, to the tidal medicine garden. Predicted sea level rise data over the next 80 years reveals Swansea, a humble town at the mouth of Lake Macquarie, will be underwater in 30 years. Medicine Gardens is a simulation how humans might respond to this crisis by combining a ‘managed retreat’ and ‘living shoreline’ strategies at the suburban domestic scale.
The following process of transformation is explained using the archetypal seasonal changes we recognise as Winter (the flood), Spring (sowing), Summer (abundance) & Autumn (harvest).