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 play…
Housing for Plant Lovers
Our project centers on the integration of phytophilia, also known as plant lovers. a deep connect…
Every Room is a Garden Room
Our project begins with the Garden Room Book, a multi-media exploration of the site, 128th St. an…
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Perforated Living: Where Does The Home End
Recognizing the unique conditions of social and physical barriers and encroachments around our pr…
Growing Futures
This project envisions growth of people and plants as the cornerstone of urban regeneration, cent…
Living as Learning: The School Without Walls
“Each teacher can be a learner, each learner can be a teacher” forms the core philosophy of the S…
Wavy
This project envisions a vibrant, sustainable, and culturally rooted community in West Harlem, ad…
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Stoopscape
This project reimagines housing for small households of 1-2 people, focusing on fostering communi…
Living in Bloom
Living in Bloom is a housing concept designed to support aging residents, their families, and car…
Convent Archways: the intersection of community and multigenerational living
This housing project is focused on supporting diverse family structures, particularly multi-gener…
Interplay
This housing project is intended to serve individuals estranged from the traditional family struc…
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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, violent …
9 Convent Ave
This housing project is a mixed-use residential complex that is designed to support and empower i…
Layered living
We believe architecture transcends boundaries—public and private, individual and collective, func…
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Tapestry Housing
Tapestry Housing began with an analysis of the immigrant population in Harlem and Manhattan, foc…
Ndimbellante Housing
In the heart of Little Senegal, New York City, a new affordable housing complex is designed to se…
Teranga Sanctuary
The driving factor of this project centered around the idea of Hospitality. Terenga (meaning Hosp…
Informal Economies of Living
This project articulates a relationship between housing and informal economies of labor present w…
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Habitat 1:1618
Our housing project in West Harlem, New York, serves as an affordable artists’ retreat and is tho…
Eggtree
Our project reimagines urban living by addressing complex social dynamics and spatial challenges …
P-Block Apartments
The P-Block Apartments (Pond Block Apartments) were designed to make the most of the space and pr…
Intermediate
The project aims to discuss intimacy and communication between different generations of family me…
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Closing the Loop
“Closing the Loop” is a mixed-use housing development in West Harlem that reimagines urban living…
Adaptive Factory Housing: A Prototype for Regenerative Biogenic Living
Located in a mixed-use district characterized by small manufacturers and residential buildings, t…
“PARTY WALL”- Familial Dynamics
“Party Walls,” an affordable housing project at 128th Street and Convent Avenue in Harlem, redefi…
Bring Street, Adding Layers
The ‘Bring Street, Adding Layers’ is a housing project in Harlem. In the city, many construction …
Collective Courtyard
Sharon and her son needed a new home. Grandma Victoria and her daughter Sarah moved to the unit n…
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“In a Pocket”
An underexamined tenet for which modernist sensibilities become instilled through the built envir…
Lobbymat
The clothesline represents a site where labor, class, gender, scheduling, and communal life inter…
Tile, Tiling, Tilling
The project starts from the scale of a sink, a drying rack, a toolbox, a tile.
The project e…