Climate change is a severe issue, particularly in the 21st century, and is worth attention for all architects, landscape architects, and urban designers. Apart from the submerging future, we can have three different strategies to live with the water: Retreat to higher ground. Defend with walls and fortresses. Surrender and accommodate. Each strategy leads to a different typology of urban fabric along the seashore.

Our goal is to develop a grasshopper-based computational tool that rapidly generates alternatives dealing with sea level rising. We start from a 1000m*1000m topography, controlled by the highest and lowest points. The contours can be changed according to the parameters. Given the density and standard size, a component is designed to generate random-size housing blocks adjusting to the topography. Then the tool will give options of different strategies that can be applied to the topography, including submerge, retreat, defensive, and surrender. Each strategy will generate a different prototypical outcome to give users a basic idea of the possible future.