Friday marks the end of a two-day summit in Alameda capping off a yearlong search for design and engineering solutions to the creeping threat of sea-level rise and chronic flooding in the Bay Area.
Dubbed the “Resilient By Design Challenge,” the essay into possible solutions for soon-to-be problems tapped “designers, architects, artists, engineers, scientists, communities, [and] students” to brainstorm challenges in some of the Bay Area’s lowest-lying and most vulnerable locales.
The results, revealed Thursday by participating teams composed of various firms and community groups in partnership, are wildly ambitious but still present plausible fixes as the waters creep in.
Here’s how seven of the trouble spots considered might be plucked from the insurgent tides, if and when the time comes.
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