TIDES TO CANALS
AINSLEY DAHL
As it sits now, the city of surfside has no way of dealing with the increasing threat of flooding and sea level rise. The city is in need of a system, a piece of infrastructure that can begin to capture and regulate excess water in the wake of adverse weather events. The city is also in need of a new approach to zoning and policy, an approach that incentivizes the addition of green spaces, reduced building footprints, and the implementation of sustainable systems. Our proposal revolves around a multi-phased plan, implementing necessary, sustainable infrastructure in the immediate, short term. Then, allowing this framework to inform the architecture and design of the land plots themselves in the future as the need arises.