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The Static Dune Fallacy: Why Traditional Approaches Fail on Dynamic ShoresFor decades, coastal engineering relied on static dune designs—fixed geometr...
The Rising Stakes: Why Conventional Massing Fails in Dynamic Coastal ZonesCoastal development faces a fundamental mismatch: traditional zoning and mas...
Who Needs This and What Goes Wrong Without It If you are designing a building within the tidal zone—where daily water level changes, wave action, and ...
The question arrives early in schematic design: how high should the first finished floor be above mean high water? For projects on open-coast sites, t...
If you're designing a building on a dynamic coastal dune system, the wind isn't just a load case—it's a sculpting force that reshapes the site itself....