STATES OF HOUSING
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Introduction

STATES OF HOUSING

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PICK - UP HOUSING

Pavements go from sidewalks to landscapes for chalk and blankets. Mud asks to be laid on and p...

Housing for Plant Lovers

Our project centers on the integration of phytophilia, also known as plant lovers. a deep conn...

Every Room is a Garden Room

Our project begins with the Garden Room Book, a multi-media exploration of the site, 128th St....

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Perforated Living: Where Does The Home End

Recognizing the unique conditions of social and physical barriers and encroachments around our...

Growing Futures

This project envisions growth of people and plants as the cornerstone of urban regeneration, c...

Living as Learning: The School Without Walls

“Each teacher can be a learner, each learner can be a teacher” forms the core phil...

Wavy

This project envisions a vibrant, sustainable, and culturally rooted community in West Harlem,...

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Stoopscape

This project reimagines housing for small households of 1-2 people, focusing on fostering comm...

Living in Bloom

Living in Bloom is a housing concept designed to support aging residents, their families, and ...

Convent Archways: the intersection of community and multigenerational living

This housing project is focused on supporting diverse family structures, particularly multi-ge...

Interplay

This housing project is intended to serve individuals estranged from the traditional family st...

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122 Rent–Controlled Apartments in New York

The demarcation of the line from the sphere of the domestic to the public is a shocking, viole...

9 Convent Ave

This housing project is a mixed-use residential complex that is designed to support and empowe...

Layered living

We believe architecture transcends boundaries—public and private, individual and collective, f...

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Tapestry Housing

Tapestry Housing began with an analysis of the immigrant population in Harlem and Manhattan, ...

Ndimbellante Housing

In the heart of Little Senegal, New York City, a new affordable housing complex is designed to...

Teranga Sanctuary

The driving factor of this project centered around the idea of Hospitality. Terenga (meaning H...

Informal Economies of Living

This project articulates a relationship between housing and informal economies of labor presen...

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Habitat 1:1618

Our housing project in West Harlem, New York, serves as an affordable artists’ retreat a...

Eggtree

Our project reimagines urban living by addressing complex social dynamics and spatial challeng...

P-Block Apartments

The P-Block Apartments (Pond Block Apartments) were designed to make the most of the space and...

Intermediate

The project aims to discuss intimacy and communication between different generations of family...

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Closing the Loop

“Closing the Loop” is a mixed-use housing development in West Harlem that reimagin...

Adaptive Factory Housing: A Prototype for Regenerative Biogenic Living

Located in a mixed-use district characterized by small manufacturers and residential buildings...

“PARTY WALL”- Familial Dynamics

“Party Walls,” an affordable housing project at 128th Street and Convent Avenue in...

Bring Street, Adding Layers

The ‘Bring Street, Adding Layers’ is a housing project in Harlem. In the city, many constructi...

Collective Courtyard

Sharon and her son needed a new home. Grandma Victoria and her daughter Sarah moved to the uni...

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“In a Pocket”

An underexamined tenet for which modernist sensibilities become instilled through the built en...

Lobbymat

The clothesline represents a site where labor, class, gender, scheduling, and communal life in...

Tile, Tiling, Tilling

The project starts from the scale of a sink, a drying rack, a toolbox, a tile.

The pro...