Hello Urbanist Hive Mind,
I’m interested in designs that build on flood plains. I often seen the solution being (sacrificial) parking garages on the ground floor of flats.
It got me thinking what uses of that space have people seen that is useful from an urbanist perspective (i.e. not car parking).
What have people seen that works well? Maybe with the climate crisis we should avoid building on them at all?
I wouldn’t say I recommend it but in parts of Louisiana many houses are built on stilts
If done right it feels a bit like living with your environment rather than against it. What I was trying to think about is what purposes other than car parking could you use the underspace for. Something that doesn’t matter too much if it gets flooded.
Maybe we could say we just shouldn’t be living on flood plains but given the other benefits and future with climate change this seems untenable as a position.