A

AIA CES Credits
AV Office
Abstract Publication
Academic Affairs
Academic Calendar, Columbia University
Academic Calendar, GSAPP
Admissions Office
Advanced Standing Waiver Form
Alumni Board
Alumni Office
Anti-Racism Curriculum Development Award
Architecture Studio Lottery
Assistantships
Avery Library
Avery Review
Avery Shorts

S

STEM Designation
Satisfactory Academic Progress
Scholarships
Skill Trails
Student Affairs
Student Awards
Student Conduct
Student Council (All Programs)
Student Financial Services
Student Health Services at Columbia
Student Organization Handbook
Student Organizations
Student Services Center
Student Services Online (SSOL)
Student Work Online
Studio Culture Policy
Studio Procedures
Summer Workshops
Support GSAPP
Close
This website uses cookies as well as similar tools and technologies to understand visitors' experiences. By continuing to use this website, you consent to Columbia University's usage of cookies and similar technologies, in accordance with the Columbia University Website Cookie Notice Group 6
Arch herreros haoranxu fa21 01 image

Once upon a time in East Harlem

The project focuses on rethinking New York City’s social housing projects, and the specific site is East River Houses in East Harlem. Gentrification is colonialism to both the district and its residents. The social housing project intended to create a single functioned area for dwelling, which represented the initial intention of living together, building up a new order, a heterotopia place. The current image of buildings does not lead to the association of living and accommodation: it’s more or less a frivolous overlap of modern-style boxes. To add a more explicit sense of uniting and living, the indication should deliver stronger new symbols.

In this proposal, the symbolic house modules revoke the sense of living together. Various types of modules function as diversified programs to be shared by a group of NYCHA residents. Several floors of the building will be reconstructed into platforms on which groups of houses will be inserted that can activate a provocative mode of life. In the newly generated space, daily activities are provided with the implication and association of montaging.

Arch herreros haoranxu fa21 02 model