Students discuss hurricane resilience with Dustin Henry, AICP, Coastal Resilience Manager for the City of Galveston. Image: Ian Caine
This semester UTSA’s COTE studio (Committee on Technology and the Environment) is back on Galveston Island studying coastal and hurricane resilience. This is the second year running that the studio, led by Ian Caine and Dr. Hazem Rashed-Ali, has worked on Galveston, site of the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. On September 8, 1900 a devastating hurricane swept through Galveston, killing between 6,000 and 8,000 thousand residents.
In the morning the students endured a driving rain storm while discussing ecological resilience with Dustin Henry, Coastal Resource Manager for the City of Galveston. Later in the day, the studio visited a job site with architect Brax Easterwood and learned about how he keeps flood water out buildings in the Strand Historic District.
In December the students will present final proposals for an eco-hotel that embraces the goals and methods of the Architecture 2030 Challenge, which commits that all new buildings and major renovations will be carbon-neutral by 2030.