Adaptive Built environment Design for future Climate

- When storm surge meets coastal communities

/ international Climate Adaptation Design (iCAD) Ideas Competition 2014 / hosted by Chinese Culture University (CCU), Taiwan

Prizes

Winning participants will receive prizes totaling 2,600 USD with the distribution as follows:

1st Prize: 1,600 USD
2nd Prize: 700 USD
3rd Prize: 300 USD

There will also be 2 honorable mentions.

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Village Wangliao, Taiwan

(source: Chi, P.L., 2006. Taiwan from the air. Owl Publishing House)

Site / coastal / low-lying / on floods

Wang-Liao is a coastal and low-lying community of Taiwan. About 1469 residents are living there and most of them living on fish farming. The village was flooded during typhoons in 1986 (30 days), 1990 (39 days), and 1992 (13 days). The maximum subsidence at Wang-Liao is about 1.17 m; subsidence rate is about 3.46-9.21 cm/yr.