KOSY travelled to Puerto Rico to meet with the community, stakeholders, client, and consultants, and to assess the MBRIC site in person.

Time on the ground matters. It sharpens the project quickly, not just through measurements and photos, but through conversations with the people who know the place, the climate, and the ambitions behind the brief. MBRIC is being shaped through an unusually strong collaboration between local voices and teams on the ground, and KOSY as design architects working from abroad, a shared effort to keep the project rooted while still pushing the idea.

The trip also included productive in-person workshops with the consultant team, working through multiple risks side by side. Being in the same room helped fast-track decisions, align priorities, and move forward with clarity.

The site itself is exceptional, a peninsular landscape within the former Roosevelt Roads military base on the east coast of Puerto Rico, where water, wind, and horizon are part of the everyday experience. Standing there makes the project feel both more real and more urgent, and it sets a clear bar for what the building needs to be.