“Coastal Material Reciprocities: Re-wilding Post-Industrial Tidal Marshes of Red Hook, NY ” is an ecological research and design project.

A research and design project centered around an ecological understanding of a perpetually eroding coastal landscape. Taking the site’s historical function as a material port as a point of departure, this project imagines a resurgent landscape of the 48b ecoregion’s endemic plant material, specifically spartina grass, phragmites reed, marine clay, and cedar wetland trees. Responding to it, an architecture of built of these materials.

This project imagines the post-industrial coastline of Red Hook as a landscape of retreat, a littoral space of non-capital driven, ambigious programming that responds directly to the re-wilded conditions of urban coastal erosion. Animated by renewed interactions of native organisms, people begin to build in response.