26 Distillation Guidebook Co-Lab • 9.18–9.19 2025 that the market has failed to address. Some examples have in ways succeeded and others failed, but all provide lessons about the potentials and pitfalls of how to begin. Seaside Village: The First Proof One of our earliest efforts to use this methodology was during a master plan project for a historic housing development in Bridgeport, Connecticut called Seaside Village. Built by the US Government during World War I to house munitions workers, but finished too late, Seaside Village is an architectural gem—a garden suburb of brick terraces and semi-detached homes designed by R. Clipston Sturgis and Arthur Shurtleff. It is beloved by its residents, but it was built on a filled tidal marsh at a very low elevation; for a century, the water has been trying to reclaim it. As sea levels rose and storm patterns intensified, the streets of this historic area began to flood with alarming regularity. The neighborhood was threatened not just by the water, but by the paralysis of the solution. The grey engineering fix—massive pumps and pipe overhauls to eject water from the streets was too expensive for the cooperative to afford and too small for the city or state government to prioritize.
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