oyster-tectureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Coined by Kate Orff. Blend of oyster +‎ architecture

名詞

oyster-tecture (uncountable)

1. The use of oyster reefs to mitigate the effects of storm surge and rising sea levels and to filter polluted water.
   • 2012 Neil Chambers, "The Viability and Vision of Oyster-tecture", Metropolis, 30 May.

     The vision for oyster-tecture is to create a network of oyster reefs that interlink from Texas to Maine.

   • 2016 Edward Helmore, "Oysters are making a comeback in the polluted waters around New York City", The Guardian, 17 November.

     Such is the potential that the concept of oyster-tecture – the use of oysters as an architectural resource – was developed by landscape architect Kate Orff and presented in a 2010 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

   • 2021 Julia Hotz, "New York City Is Building a Wall of Oysters to Fend Off Floods", Bloomberg CityLab, 19 November.

     The $60 million project, devised by landscape architect Kate Orff more than a decade ago and launched by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, uses an approach that Orff has dubbed “oyster-tecture”: partially submerged mounds of rubble mingle with shell structures implanted with living larvae.