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Florida Architects Deploy Seawalls, Parks and Buildings for Climate Resilience
Projects include 3D-printed seawalls, sponge parks and elevated housing, with some designs shown to dissipate at least 45% of wave energy.
- Architects across Florida are implementing climate-adaptive projects, including 3D-printed living seawalls and elevated housing, to protect coastal communities from rising sea levels and intensifying storms.
- Landscape architect Jeffrey Huber, who was 12 during 1992's Hurricane Andrew, now designs resilient infrastructure like flood-absorbing parks after witnessing the storm's devastation firsthand.
- Anya Freeman, a former lawyer, launched Kind Designs in 2024 to create 3D-printed seawalls that dissipate at least 45% of wave energy while fostering marine biodiversity across Florida.
- Expanding beyond Florida, Kind Designs is installing seawalls in California and New York while fortifying coastal Navy bases to protect the 129 million residents living in coastal counties.
- Thomas Klein, director of the Center for Urban and Community Design, is organizing a community design fund to help lower-income areas access and implement resilient infrastructure projects.
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One day there was a roof. The next morning it was gone. Jeffrey Huber still remembers the day some 34 years ago when Hurricane Andrew blew off the roof of his childhood home, one of tens of thousands damaged and destroyed across southern Florida. For days, first responders couldn’t get to them. For a month and a half, they relied on food donations. For more than a year, he lived with his family in a trailer. “It wasn’t just about the storm itsel…
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Florida shows how to adapt as coastal cities face growing threats from sea level rise and storms
As climate change makes cities around the world unlivable, one city is using art and new infrastructure to adapt.
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