Toa Baja Municipality

Early Resilient Framework Plan

Summary: This analysis and design is part of a Resilient Framework Plan for the Autonomous Municipality of Toa Baja Municipality. It represents the development of a scalable and replicable resilient planning methodology with  a S-E-E approach: Social, Environmental, and Economic Resilience.

This framework plan is helping the Municipality build consensus, centralize existing information, identify gaps of data and analysis, synthesize analysis into overarching principles and think strategically about solutions that are implementable.  It is also informing the piloting of an early resilient planning tool developed by MIT Urban Risk Lab.

Services: Project lead and management, content development, graphic illustrations and final production.

Team: resilientSEE collaborators included Perkins&Will, MIT Urban Risk Lab, Alvarez Díaz & Villalón Architecture and Interior Design.

Completion Date: 2019

Impact: 1 Municipality with 5 Barrios: Candelaria, Media Luna, Palo Seco, Sabana Seca and Toa Baja barrio-pueblo.

Awards: Citation, Campus and Urban Planning, Boston Society of Architects / American Institute of Architects, 2021; Design Excellence Honor Award - Vision Category, National Organization of Minority Architects, 2020; Honorable Mention, ACADIA+Autodesk+NOMA Computational Design Award, 2020

This content was presented at the Caribbean Strong: Building with Equity conference, which was hosted by the Puerto Rico Science Trust in February of 2019. The analysis was developed by ResilientSEE partners: MIT Urban Risk Lab, Álvarez Díaz Villalón, and Perkins+Will. This work represents the steps of an early Resilient Framework Plan for the Toa Baja Municipality. It is also informing a consensus process within the Municipality and the piloting of an early resilient planning tool under development by MIT Urban Risk Lab.