RENAISSANCE SQUARE is a landmark project for the island of Puerto Rico: representing both the first mixed-income public housing development in Puerto Rico and the first Energy-Star design project of its kind ever to be built on the island. In stark contrast to the high-rise structures they replace, the new buildings are designed to human scale and in keeping with the surrounding environment: three- to four-story structures—apartments, walk-ups, townhouses—individual, varied, and unique— yet consonant in their architecture and all grouped around a central, European-style plaza. The architectural style is tropical traditional, yet with a contemporary slant: a full departure from the cookie-cutter, monolithic Modernist towers they replace.