Housing Studio III: Fall 1997 Instructor: Kathryn Dean Housing for Hell's Kitchen The studio will look at the program of housing to create propositions about how daily life could be understood and structured through architecture. The specific program of housing is understood as having two very different starting points. The first is housing as the space of many. . . and the second is housing as intimate personal space. . . the space of few. The space of many starts with the most fundamental understanding of the nature of public space with its inherent continuities, overlaps, and linkages. It springs from the desire to connect us to what is outside ourselves. Its counterpart is the space of few with its interiority, enclosure, and desire for intimacy, quietness, and introspection. The slippage, coincidence, or integration of these two scales creates the framework for the structure of both a private life and a community life. It is out of this inherent tension, opposition, or union that we looked to derive new understandings about the potentials and inherent desires possible to find within the framework of housing.