因此，我们需要修复这些社区，使其免受已经造成的破坏，以保护它们免受未来随着我们的水域上升而遭受的破坏，同时也提供一些新的东西。由保护性基础设施构成的社会和事件空间。从某种意义上说，这是一种多任务系统：你可以像木板路一样在上面行走，你可以把它们当作圆形剧场，在它们后面为农耕、花园、体育、游泳、商店、活动、展馆或露营创造空间。这是一个开放的系统：他们所保护的社区将根据需要和利益决定如何使用它们。它的灵活性和我们所展示的并不是一成不变的，而是一种示范，它可能是如何运作的。

We need to repair these communities from the damage that has been done, then, to protect them from future destruction as our waters rise, but also to offer something new. Social and event spaces that are made from protective infrastructure. These are in a sense multi-tasking systems: you can walk on them like a boardwalk, you can use them as amphitheaters, they create spaces behind them on the landside for farming, gardens, sports, swimming, shops, events, pavilions or camping. It’s an open-ended system: The communities that they protect will determine different ways how to use them based on need and interest. Its flexible and what we are showing is not set in stone but is a kind of demonstration of how this might work.

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还有一个重点是如何创建这样一个项目的想法：如何构建它？我们在智能材料方面有很多经验。例如，社区可以从海洋收集废塑料-你可以把它和水泥结合起来，制成地下混凝土，1/3的普通建筑混凝土的重量，同时也能制造出很强的挡土结构。这些是各种形状的积木，可以在现场和当地参与下制作。聪明，轻盈，强壮。这些区块是相互连接和开放的，因此植物可以在它们之间生长，水可以通过它们排出，然后返回海洋。

There is also an idea that focuses on how you make such a project: How do you build it? We have a lot of experience with smart materials. For examples, communities can collect waste plastic for example from the ocean: you can recycle it combining it with cement to make infralight concrete, 1/3 the weight of regular construction concrete that can at the same time make really strong retaining structures. These are building blocks of a variety of shapes that can be made on-site and with local participation. Smart, light, and strong. These blocks are interlocking and open so plants can grow between them and water can drain through them and return to the ocean.

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随着时间的推移，这个项目可以分阶段进行，你不需要一次地按需要和优先顺序去做：这是一个民主的过程，将由社区决定。没有障碍，这个想法就像一个保护景观，可以打开和关闭一系列空间，就像一条翡翠项链。随着时间的推移，护堤将融入海滩，因为它们部分地被沙子覆盖，被植被和树木覆盖。穿过护堤顶部的木板路和桥梁将连接草地、果园、运动场、游泳池、亭台楼阁和商店。

This project can be phased over time, you don’t have to do it all at once, as needed and by priority: this is a democratic process and will be determined by the communities. No barrier, this idea is like a protective landscape that can open and close making a sequence of spaces like an emerald necklace. Over time the berms will be integrated into the beach as they are partially covered in sand, by vegetation and trees. Boardwalks and bridges zigzagging across the crowns of the berms will connect meadows, orchards, sport fields, swimming pools, and pavilions and shops.

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Rockaway可以占领这一景观，利用它并将社区扩展到这些景观中。占领基础设施是务实的，但也是诗意的。

Rockaway can take possession of this landscape, use it and extend neighborhoods into them. Occupy Infrastructure that is pragmatic but also poetic.