Year
2014-2019

Client
Connecticut Department of Housing

Collaborators
Waggonner and Ball
Arcadis
WSP

Funding
HUD Rebuild By Design Competition
HUD National Disaster Resilience Competition

Awards
2020 AIA CT Excellence in Urban Design and Planning Award
2020 APA CT Project Planning Award

Based on extensive engagement with state and municipal agencies, institutions, nonprofits, business owners, residents and other stakeholders, the Resilient Bridgeport project establishes a broadly based vision for Bridgeport’s South End and Black Rock Harbor that is climate-adapted, vibrant, safe, and flexible, with new opportunities for development and recreation, and an attractive, vivid new blue-green public realm.

Building on a year of community engagement, research and design, through innovative thinking about the form of its streets, public spaces, infrastructure networks, and architecture, this project includes a strategic resilience plan for two waterfront neighborhoods, along with the detailed design and implementation of two major pilot projects in Bridgeport’s South End. The project shows how “living with water” can reduce flooding while reaffirming the importance of water to Bridgeport’s history and identity.