Affordable Housing Challenge
New York City

URBAN MODULARITY

a. The basic morphology lends to the effective Urban restoration and repair of the: 1) a single wide lot; 2) offset open lots 3) largely disrupted or dysfunctional City blocks.

b. Whether isolated or incremental, sporadic or broadly reaching, the proposed typology acts in an urbanistically “modular” fashion. Intact City blocks can have minor breaks repaired. Desolate blocks can remake and define levels of autonomous properties or, degrees of communal space, defined by the adjacency of common courtyard/ garden areas formed; passage allowed or restricted and, cross block and street intervals formed.

c. The proposed typology responds to the scale, block, and building forms of New York City.