Kenneth A. Almario




THE BIG WALL WALL DEAL WITH IT
(Design 5, 2013)
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The Big Wall was designed to begin housing the estimated 9 Million New-New Yorkers that will be here by the 2020’s. The Wall would provide protection for Lower Manhattan against floods, plan for future rising currents, develop New York City’s East River Waterfront, provide train transportation along the FDR, and would be 100% sustainable with its efficient and reusable energy.
Design Partners:
Thomas Kim & Joe Hwang




Earth Sensitive Urbanism
(Design 8, 2015)
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Earth Sensitive Urbanism is an experimental design proposal for neglected urban spaces which avoids unsustainable urban sprawl and balances soil and resource consumption. The project researches a rediscovering process that will integrate sustainable strategies with new technologies. It's an environmentally responsible strategy of densification and landscape organization which engages ecostructure, new forms of energy production and consumption, agriculture, and a new methodology of urban growth.
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Resist Toolkit - Asbury Park
(Applied Resilience by Design, 2018)
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As design students, we were tasked to update the toolkit established by Rebuilt By Design. Our toolkit focuses on three areas of study in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Each area proposes three alternative designs which appropriate adaptive, transformative, and/or resilient design strategies. The interventions consist of resilient design strategies positioned inland - within the community, along the boardwalk, and offshore – in the water. We did not determine a specific height for each intervention, instead, we based them on the base flood elevations determined by the FIRM map and included a height range to include sea level rise and freeboard.
Design Partner:
Thais Stumpf




Bronx Kill: Achieving Resilient Waterfront Development through Integrative Energy Infrastructure and Community Planning
(Capstone Project Design, 2018)
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As cities grow, advancing infrastructure is crucial to provide support for greater urban density and development. However, the vast majority of urban planning schemes and development proposals seldom consider infrastructure as a focal point of development. Using Port Morris in the South Bronx as a model, our team has developed a plan to augment and integrate local energy infrastructure to prepare for future growth.
Design Partners:
Jose Firpo and Ladan Haji-Mohamed