With two-thirds of the city of Hoboken in the FEMA flood zone and the city engaged in a green infrastructure initiative, the site lies in a zone of attended precarity: there is ongoing planning for real estate development, but notable disengagement from larger city-wide concerns regarding flooding and sustainability. This project posits that morphological and ecological complexity enable urban resilience. 

The proposed development channels rising water, is minimally invasive to existing rail yard function, is conducive to ecological growth and remediation, and presents novel urban form in a topography of stubby and generic condominiums. The site plan creates a series of contingencies: the architectural forms are orchestrated such that they share urban infrastructure, and the landscape reaches from the Hudson to the foot of the Palisades to support and encourage habitat growth.