Advanced Studio: Delta Cities Coastal Resilience

The Delta Cities Coastal Resilience (DCCR) Advanced Studio is one of many interdisciplinary, client-based studios available to fulfill curricular requirements of the MS in SES program. Students from all four Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment MS programs. 

The studio addresses the complex challenges associated with the short, mid-, and long-term adaptation to and the mitigation of climate change in waterfront communities. The course places a special emphasis on the physical characteristics of the built environment and the need to develop innovative design strategies to address the risks associated with severe weather. The approach responds to the need of a real client in order to embed physical interventions at the urban and building scale with the need to articulate planning strategies to harness the co-benefits of local projects at various other scales - while addressing historic legacies of environmental injustice, climate gentrification, and racist planning and design practices, more broadly.

Note: While DCCR is typically a parallel studio between the GCPE and Undergraduate Architecture departments, the work below primarily features our graduate students' deliverables to project clients.