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An installation is in place. A series of lines are manually inscribed on the vertical and horizontal planes demarcating sequential layers of privacy by use. These stark boundary lines contrast strongly against the once grey territories that exist between the public and private, giving rise to new understandings of plot ownership and spatial experience.

After#Sandy On the Water’s Edge

The consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly evident and increasingly devastating for millions of people around the world. Higher temperatures are generating more droughts, increasingly violent storms and heavy flooding that affect settlements and urban and rural areas. All this implies the destruction of homes, workplaces, food resources, and the unfortunate loss of lives.

In 2012 Hurricane Sandy hit New York, destroying more than 900 buildings, significantly damaging at least 12.000 more and flooding streets and public spaces.

One of the areas affected by the hurricane was the Red Hook neighborhood in southern Brooklyn. Despite this unfortunate circumstance, this situation confronts us to a new challenge and at the same time, a new opportunity to reorient the neighborhood’s and the city’s future in a sustainable manner.

The workshop site in Red Hook, bounded by the Gowanus Expressway, the mouth of the Gowanus Canal and the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, is an area with an important productive industrial waterfront where industry, housing, open spaces and heritage elements of the nineteenth century are mixed together.

42 students from different countries (Singapore, Belgium, Colombia, Spain, Italy and Switzerland), four from NUS, participated in the workshop. Students faced the concept of Resilient Urban Design and Planning and the opportunities that disaster recovery creates to address long-term urban issues in order to adapt to the challenges of climate change. Proposals mainly worked with regeneration strategies, urban renewal and punctual and selective urban repair, understanding resilience as a pro-positive attitude for remastering the future of the city.

(Oscar Carracedo)

^ Present, historical, and proposed schemes for Red Hook v New waterfront plan