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飓风桑迪给纽约市敲响了警钟。全球变暖预示着海平面上升和强烈风暴的未来，我们别无选择，只能保护自己。这些方法将包括软性解决方案-污水和湿地、多孔铺路、绿色屋顶和牡蛎床-以及硬堤坝、墙壁和水闸。建造一条适合居住的堤坝的建议是硬性的，除了大规模的人口迁移之外，只有这样一套严格的屏障才能保护这座城市的许多地区免受桑迪那样大规模的风暴潮的侵袭。

Hurricane Sandy has been a wake-up call for New York City. Global warming harbingers a future of rising seas and energetic storms against which we have no choice but to protect ourselves. The means will include both soft solutions – swales and wetlands, porous paving, green roofs and oyster beds – and hard – dikes, levees, walls, and flood gates. This proposal for a habitable levee falls on the hard side and – short of massive population displacement – only such a set of rigid barriers can protect many areas of the city from storm surges of Sandy's magnitude.

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我们设计了一个屏障，连接这个等高线，从罗卡路尽头的一个山脊开始，沿着半岛运行，用一个可操作的大门穿越牙买加湾，在康尼岛附近蜿蜒而行，并在维拉扎诺海峡与另一个大门相遇。亚瑟·基尔的一个较小的大门完成了整个系统。这条路线没有什么特别不正统的。

We have designed a barrier that connects this contour, beginning from a ridge at the end of the Rockaways, running along the peninsula, crossing the opening of Jamaica Bay with an operable gate, snaking around Coney Island and meeting another gate at the Verrazano Narrows. A smaller gate at Arthur Kill completes the system. There is nothing particularly unorthodox in this alignment.

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该项目还实现了集水和污水处理的自给自足，并产生了所需能源的一半。虽然任何这样的系统都需要许多建筑师的协作和各种符合当地情况的表达，但我们所演示的部分是为模块化建筑设计的，并建议工厂建造的组件从海边交付。

The project also achieves self-sufficiency in water harvesting and sewage treatment and generates fully half of the energy it requires. Although any such system would require the collaboration of many architects and a variety of expressions harmonized with local conditions, the portion we have illustrated is designed for modular construction and proposes that factory-built components be delivered from the sea side.

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最后，我们计算出这样一个项目可能完全自筹资金.通过在防洪设备上设置绝对是非常理想的居住地点，就可以产生一种能够支付所有费用的收入流。此外，该项目的范围将使混合战略得以实施，从而有助于纠正受影响地区高度的居住隔离现象。

Finally, we have calculated that such a project might be fully self-financing. By topping the apparatus of flood protection with what would surely be highly desirable places to live, an income stream could be generated that would cover all costs. More, the extent of the project would allow strategies of mixing that could help redress high levels of residential segregation in the affected areas.

建筑师Michael Sorkin Studio Location Rockaway，纽约，美国类别城市设计团队Michael Sorkin，Makoto Okazaki

Architects Michael Sorkin Studio Location Rockaway, New York, United States Category Urban Design Team Michael Sorkin, Makoto Okazaki, Ying Liu, Jie Gu Collaborator Michael Parkinson/Terreform Project Year 2013