A ROOM FOR WATER

This project reimagines basement housing in Brownsville, Brooklyn, transforming one of the city’s most vulnerable residential conditions into an active tool for climate resilience. Through a research-driven methodology combining mapping, streetscape analysis, policy critique, and community engagement, the project exposes the gap between basement housing policies and lived realities. A Room for Water, envisions a new relationship between residents and water using basements as part of an integrated hydrological system that delays, retains, and releases stormwater. With adaptive reuse of industrial structures, community relocation support, and ecological restoration at Fresh Creek, the project builds a just resilient water landscape.