Environmental

The Resilient Island Culture Studio was tasked to address housing and resiliency issues on Staten Island in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. With Make the Road New York as the studio client, emphasis was placed on serving lower-income communities that have not fully recovered from the storm.

Concerned with environmental injustice and the many ill-impacts it has on the residents of affected neighborhoods, I realized through existing literature that there were sources of toxic air pollutants existing within close proximity to our daily land-uses.

In 2013, deeply concerned about rampant mining in some parts of India and their subsequent abandoning I came across some abandoned asbestos mines, south of the city of Udaipur that had left a toxic trail for the community dwellers to deal with.