Year: Fall 2022
Critic: Christopher Leong
Collaboration: Kelvin Lee
Size: 258,000 SF
Our project aims to create connections at multiple scales through affordable and collective housing. At an urban scale, the housing collective connects to La Finca Del Sur community garden to expand their footprint, programming, and outreach as well as reconnect pedestrian access across Major Deegan Expressway. At the unit scale, the project eliminates traditional corridors by introducing the joint: a central form of vertical programming and circulation that serves as residential egress while encouraging overlaps of intimate interactions. Through alternative systems of collective land ownership, long-term affordability and stability allows South Bronx residents to connect to their neighborhood.
Our new housing framework is social connection at multiple scales.