STUDIO OUTSIDE SAW HARVEY COMING
BY ZACH MORTICE
Studio Outside’s “Storm + Sand + Sea + Strand?Barrier Island Resiliency Planning for Galveston Island State Park” predicts severe land loss due to sea level rise by 2060. Image courtesy of Studio Outside/Google Earth.
Studio Outside?s resiliency plan for Galveston Island State Park earned a 2017 ASLA Professional Award for Analysis and Planning, drawing praise from the jury for its comprehensive and forward-looking anticipation of the havoc a hurricane could release. But Studio Outside?s Andrew Duggan and his team knew they were pondering ironclad eventualities, not hypothetical disasters.
Because over the weekend, the city of Galveston and Galveston Island State Park to its southwest found themselves in the path of Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall at on Friday night, a Category 4 storm that has prompted mass evacuations of the Houston region. Studio Outside?s project, ?Storm + Sand + Sea + Strand: Barrier Island Resiliency Planning for Galveston Island State Park,? tracks the loss of habitat and land as perpetuated by sea level rise, encroaching development, and hurricane flooding. It prescribes soft and green natural barriers to storm surges, assisted by flexible infrastructure. As a barrier island bordered by Texas? West Bay to the northwest and the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast, there are few places to hide from floodwaters or to absorb them, and even less given that this part of the island was partially paved over to accommodate...
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