Our  rebuilding of  multiple city  blocks  organized around internal pedestrian mews began immediately after Super Storm Sandy, as a direct community outreach  in partnership with Pratt Center. A decade later it produced a wholistic vision for resilient design and  water management of a neighborhood.   The project was executed under the auspices of the Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery  and the federally funded Build it Back Program.  We served as lead urban designers and architects for a larger interdisciplinary team of architects and engineers. 

Our  approach to resiliency at the  scale of  multiple blocks  is missing from current policy and practice, which focus on individual buildings or massive infrastructure  without attention to the overlapping catchments of community, neighborhood and biome. The project also produced  a housing and urban  prototype for the bungalow communities that abound in coastal New York.