Project by Yiran Li and Kaimin Wang
Line of Neighborhoods is a renovation and extension project for four East Village buildings explored through three territorial axes—ecology, community, and infrastructure.
The X-line studies how street trees run across the block and how the same species takes on different territorial identities—public on the street, private in the backyard, and communal in the community garden.
The Y-line connects the four adjacent apartment buildings into one continuous spatial sequence and extends this linkage with a new corridor that stitches the buildings into a unified community.
The Z-line examines the block’s piping systems—and repositions them from hidden underground infrastructure to an above-ground and upgrading the system for future use.
Those three lines reframes the four tenements as a single line of neighborly connections — a place where public and private territories overlap, support each other, and form the cultural fabric of the community.
