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PROVISIONAL GROUNDS



The Joint Base Cape Cod (JBCC) is home to one of the largest remaining pine barrens in the northeast, which stands in the midst of the pressures of the surrounding urban development. Pine barrens are characterized by disturbance adapted pitch pine and scrub oak communities that grow on sandy soils that are poor in nutrients. Through the introduction of practices of forest management such as selective cutting, brush hogging and prescribed fires in a rotational basis, the project envisions a vigorous mosaic of shifting successional habitats.

The proposed rotation scheme creates temporal clearings that are strategically located for the occupation of encampments in the event of an evacuation for the surrounding towns. Located at the highest point of the Cape, many area residents believe that the reserve is the place of refuge in the event of natural disaster. The project capitalizes on this widespread notion and on the regional relevance of the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod (ASCC) as the only coast guard aviation facility in the northeast and speculates how these clearings can serve not only the Cape but the greater northeast region.






Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Type: Resilience
Year: 2013
Instructors: Pierre Belanger with Luis Callejas , Harvard GSD
Option Studio
Team: Radhya Adityavarman, Han Yang, Vanessa Moon

                                                                                                                                   

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