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

Dates

February 1, 2014: Registration opens; Question period opens
March 31, 2014: Answers to questions posted on website
June 20, 2014: Registration Deadline
June 20, 2014: Submission Due
June 30, 2014 (extended to July 18): Winners announced

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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.