the architects | Rise to Resilience!
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The Challenge | Rise to Resilience!
You are a newly appointed Regional Green Engineer. Your challenge is to develop green infrastructure solutions for complex challenges in water management and risk reduction.Create a tool to assess the characteristics of an urban or rural area of your choice, and integrate green infrastructures, or nature-based solutions, into that region’s development plans to1) reduce flood and/or drought risk2) establish sustainable land use practices3) support water management, and/or 4) produce local economic opportunities.
Dam
Our infrastructure is a dam aimed at saving villages from floods while also providing water for farming and generating electricity for a factory
Overview:We designed a dam on SketchUp that will protect our chosen village from floods and will provide a direct source of water to nearby farms and will also power a factory on the generated electricity from our water turbines.
Challenges faced: 1.Choosing the right solution for our challenge.
2.Choosing the location
3.Amount of rain that causes the floods.
4.Houses near the mountains.