Regenerative Adaptation: Harnessing Abundance in The Hydraulic Landscape of Kurobe

Harvard GSD

This studio aims to project a sustainable future for Kurobe, Japan, where the delicate balance among nature, industry, land, and the economy will be challenged by anticipated physical and social changes of great magnitude. Landscape architecture is the agent and medium of this projection for the future.The current stable land use of the Kurobe River alluvial fan owes much to the flood control and water supply projects carried out since the turn of the 20th century, especially the construction…