This project proposes creating an archipelago-type development on sites above sea level in the Lower Ninth Ward. Here existing structures would be moved to higher ground where they would be joined by new construction. Illustrated is a detailed section of one of the islands that shows vertically stacked housing and a transportation hub as central concepts of these imagined islands. The goal of the project is to address the environmental dangers of living in the Ninth Ward by reinventing the neighborhood as a set of islands, while still managing to preserve the built environment that makes the neighborhood special.