An Operation SPLASH Visiting Exhibit: LI Waterfront Resiliency

Location:   Operation SPLASH Headquarters, 202 Woodcleft Ave, Freeport NY

Dates:   Saturday April 29^th   1 - 9pm 

              Sunday April 30^th     1 - 6pm

Admission: Free

 NYIT's Community Design Studio has been a tradition for more than two decades.

The aim of the Studio is to introduce students with architecture backgrounds to broad planning and urban design strategies that are demonstrable at a human scale. At the same time, we offer our collective efforts to communities and public planning agencies, who seek bold ideas and creative vision.The Community Design Studio/Graduate Urban Design Studio is run as a competition of ideas among teams of students.

Hosted by the New York Institute of Technology and Operation S.P.L.A.S.H.

Exhibits are designed to address the following local concerns:

• Design for Disaster: Plan for climate change with infrastructure improvements that enhance day to day water quality and ecological diversity while strengthening emergency preparedness in the Mill River Watershed communities and properties prone to crisis.
• Waterfront Revitalization: Promote a mixed use, working waterfront for residential, recreational, commercial and tourism.
•  Intermodal Transportation Planning: Focus on synergies + adjacencies, within and beyond the project site.
•  Community Based Planning: Incorporate community engagement to date and participate as the process unfolds as stakeholders and change makers.
• Macro to Micro Scales: Data and mapping driven analyses and concepts for approaching the project.
•  Greenway: Developing a "Greenway Corridor" linking communities along the Mill River, from Hempstead Lake State Park to Bay Park, through bike paths and trails, road crossings, and access to educational and recreational activities.
•  Invention: Resiliency structure and program to support the "restoration economy" and present possibilities for green and grey infrastructure.
•  Urbanity: the creation of vibrant, desirable and livable neighborhoods and town centers, integrated with their larger communities and preserving natural assets.
•  Adaptive mitigation: Actions that simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to climate risks should be prioritized at all urban scales-metropolitan region, city, district/neighborhood, block, and building.

Please Note: Although focused on the area coincident with Living with the Bay, these projects are not in fact part of the Governor's Office of Storm Recovery or HUD Rebuild by Design program. The projects should be judged solely on their own merit, not as alternatives or replacement for any other project.