Feature Short

How a Hurricane Forged New Hope for Resilience

Maria is inspiring design that has the next hurricane in mind.

by Nancy Eve Cohen

It’s 10 o’clock at night on September 20, 2017. Rain is seeping through the windows of architect Adriana Bultrón-Rodríguez’s third-floor apartment in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The building has just gotten its power back after Hurricane Irma.

But now, Hurricane Maria has come calling.

Published February 5, 2018

Cohen, N. (2018, February 5). How a Hurricane Forged New Hope for Resilience. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/feature-shorts/how-hurricane-forged-new-hope-resilience

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