In the third semester, the design incentive was to create a housing project within a Brooklyn based tower. Largely focused on an exploration through physical models, the project took direction from the narrative of the residents and how their world-view might then direct the formal language of the project.

The idea of radial infrastructure was born out of the desire to provide every apartment with an outward looking balcony. This led to a formal language of an incredibly thin tower with the apartments pushed to the periphery. However, there was the desire to provide housing for more than one type of resident. Mirroring its formal language, a second radial tower was overlayed with the original but containing a radically different housing style and group of residents. The intersections caused by these two massings helped to define locations for amenities and common spaces throughout the tower.

Fall 2017

Critic: Carlos Arnaiz

A massing was formed by pulling its initial shape from the unusual plot of land in which it would sit. The evolution of the form was discovered through a series of exercises, each focusing on a single concept but including the previous adjustments. The discoveries made during these exercises would inform the final design either directly or indirectly.