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The use of oyster reefs to mitigate the effects of storm surge and rising sea levels and to filter polluted water..
The vision for oyster-tecture is to create a network of oyster reefs that interlink from Texas to Maine.
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.
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.
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Oyster-tecture means The use of oyster reefs to mitigate the effects of storm surge and rising sea levels and to filter polluted water..
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The vision for oyster-tecture is to create a network of oyster reefs that interlink from Texas to Maine.
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