Project by Alex Ching-Chen Liu
Living Threads Along the Greenline explores how housing can coexist with an active industrial landscape where large-scale infrastructure dominates the ground and limits everyday public life. The project introduces housing as a connective fabric, reactivating residual spaces and weaving daily life back into the abandoned railway. The massing strategy partially demolishes the existing warehouse to release the ground plane, transforming it into a series of public plazas. Two housing blocks are introduced—one embedded within the warehouse and the other positioned across the Cutoff—both oriented toward the Montauk Cutoff landscape. Large shear walls structure the buildings, echoing the tectonic logic of the existing industrial architecture while organizing different housing types. The project is structured around a clear public-to-private sequence, moving from open ground-level plazas to shared housing commons and individual units. This gradual transition reinforces the idea of weaving relationships across the industrial context, existing infrastructure, and domestic living.
