Treat Flamingo Park, one of Miami Beach's largest public green spaces, as part of the city's climate infrastructure: a decentralized system for storing stormwater and supplying freshwater, rather than only a place for recreation.
Harvard GSD studio, 2016, within the City of Miami Beach Resilience Program, with Charles Waldheim and Rosetta Elkin. I studied how sea level rise, salinization, rainfall variability, and groundwater conditions shape freshwater availability, and framed seasonal water as a design problem, not only an engineering one.
Stormwater retention tanks, landform raised above projected flood lines, and a distributed irrigation network linking the park to nearby green space. The tanks double as civic and botanical space.
This is where my interest in environmental systems, public use, and making large systems tangible began. It is still the frame for the work I do now.
