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RAYDIKE

San Francisco Bay, CA

_Competition Winner

, Rising Tides International Design Competition, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)

RAYdike

is a temporary laser light marker system that depicts a hypothetical barrier required to protect Bay Area cities from rising waters due to climate change. The

RAYdike

proposal is a bold step towards raising political capital and public awareness to the impact that an estimated 55 inch water level rise will have on the San Francisco Bay in 100 years. The logistical complexity needed to protect urban and estuarine ecologies will be a massive undertaking involving public involvement at multiple levels. To confront these realities, the

RAYdike

array is proposed as a means to initiate creative efforts for preventative action at all levels of community engagement.

Projected into the moist night air,

RAYdike

relies on the Bay’s atmospheric condition for intermittent, low-lying coastal fog, and uses a laser light system to project a worst-case scenario for barrier elevations directly upon the water’s edge. The result is a realistic depiction of tall barrier walls surrounding urban cores and natural tidal shores. Rather than relying on disseminated informational texts and color-coded diagrams,

RAYdike

places a future reality directly in confrontation with our present-day lives.

Faulders Studio team:

Thom Faulders, Janghyung Lee, Sean McGuire, Devin Rutz

_2009