This studio used a technique called scenariograms or “Histories of the Future.” Each group produced a short film that helped illustrate the changes that shaped designs in the next semester. The Scenario that this group developed was titled Eden. This masterplan focused on addressing an urban design strategy that is reffered to as “flattening”. Planning dense developments is not the most effective option in certain scenarios. In the market downturn of 2007-2009 many of these dense developments lay empty and in certain cases have become informal settlements. The Eden master plan is focused on recovery after natural disasters occur. Developing a way for the site to reclaim water it is able to adapt the surrounding environment to suit the community’s needs were exceeded when the surrounding environment was designed to retain water from torrential storms and reclaimed as an asset that creates picturesque landscape. The main residential strategy is single-family housing, which decentralizes structures and creates a network of energy production as well as food production. Eden also focused on the reduction of paved surfaces in favor of making them into privately maintained public thoroughfares.