Fragile Edges and Floating Strategies along the Albanian Coastline
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 257571
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.15274/tpj.2017.02.02.22
- Title of journal
- The Plan Journal
- Article number
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- First page
- 685
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 2611-7487
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/625705/
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The double-blind peer-reviewed (open access) article was published in The Plan Journal volume 2/2017, Issue 2, Resilience Edges. The main objective was to investigate a new design approach to respond to mutating waterscape scenarios along the south Albanian coastline. This investigation was developed through a rigorous methodology elaborated through past applied research experiences at the urban scale during the fourth year Master in Architecture Design Studio and the Professional Master in Landscape Design studio at Polis University in Tirana. The rigour was guaranteed by investigating the relevant theory that build a new repetitive approach. The originality of these processes lies in the reconversion of an urban approach to the landscape scale without the use of an overall masterplan. The intellectual context of the research is based on Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas 1977 “The city within the city: Berlin a green archipelago”. The Manifesto was a useful starting point to develop an alternative methodology introducing the concept of “landscape in fragments” and “landscape within the landscape”; such concepts were developed by reversing the morphological perception of the coastal landscape (considering the view from the sea towards the land) and by operating a set of tactical selections in natural and artificial landscapes. The results obtained by this research identify common morphological characteristics in the coastal landscape, which can become operative design tools which respond to the need to make the coastline cohabit with rising sea levels. The significance of this work is traceable in its capacity to influence the practice through a new pedagogical iterative approach. The dissemination of this research has been developed through an exhibition at the 2017 Tirana Design Biennale (TDW2017) and adopted as applied research methodology in the 2018 international PhD program IDAUP, Polis University (AL) and Ferrara University (IT) workshop.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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