Keep Safe Manual
A 500+ page resource for resilient housing design in island communities, made easy to navigate.
In 2017, Hurricane Irma’s and Hurricane Maria’s passage through the Caribbean brought several challenges, but also a valuable lesson on the importance of togetherness, safe housing, and building community resilience.
Ada Monzón
The brief
In the aftermath of the hurricane, Enterprise Community Partners wanted to create a resource that homeowners and builders can use to build back stronger. They gathered input from over 100 individuals in Puerto Rico, the USVI, and the mainland to create a guidebook full of practical information and valuable resources. The resulting publication was nearly 500 pages, and was produced in both English and Spanish editions.
To ensure the document was quick to load, easy to navigate, and engaging for readers, Enterprise chose Report Kitchen to build the online version.
The recipe
The online version of Keep Safe makes full use of Report Kitchen’s dynamic features — embedded video, interactive maps, image comparisons, and fill-in calculators — to bring this valuable resource to life. One example: satellite images showing night-time lighting across Puerto Rico before, and one month after, Hurricane Maria.
Keep Safe is fully bilingual, including navigation and images. Every page has an English and Spanish version, and visitors can toggle between the two easily.
It’s also possible to switch between the standard table of contents, and an index of land, air and water hazards.
Accordions, modals and expanding lists keep dense content scannable without hiding depth.
Layouts adapt to phones, tablets and wide screens without losing hierarchy.
Site admins can see which sections and interactions readers open.
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