In the context of climate change, Urban Reef questions the life of buildings located in disaster-prone areas. The building is a multi-purpose space for the Rockaways arts, design, and crafts community. Given its flood prone site, the building is able to accommodate flood disasters and serve as a flood shelter. Assembled through a modular panel system, the building is designed to adapt over the rising sea level through the reassembly of its parts incrementally over higher elevations. Constructed in degrees of permanence — with its structural walls being the most permanent, and its modular panels as least permanent — the project conceptualizes a new type of architecture that is reclaimed by nature over time.