In response to the events of Hurricane Sandy, the NYC Housing Authority commissioned the design team to make the Red Hook houses more resilient and to re-imagine the campus to be more livable and efficient as part of a comprehensive Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Resilience (CBDG-DR). The team developed strategies that address the challenges inherent in adapting aging buildings to be more sustainable, support a healthy social environment, and incorporate resilient strategies to withstand the next superstorm. The primary landscape strategy elevates the interior courtyards to create “lilypads” to articulate resident ownership and to provide flood protection zones.

Work completed at OLIN while Derek Hoetmer was employed as a landscape architect.

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LOCATION / Brooklyn, NY

CLIENT / NYC Housing Authority

DATE / In-Progress

TEAM / Kohn Pedersen Fox

PRESS

“Large Raised Earth “Lily Pads” by KPF Will Help Stop Future Floods at NYC’s Red Hook Houses,” Jason Sayer. Archpaper.com. 23 March 2017.

“American Institute of Architecture Recognizes NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses Resiliency Project for Outstanding Design,” Nyc.gov. 31 March 2017.