I was part of a four person team that joined the BeeBreeders New York City Affordable Housing Challenge representing Blackney Hayes Architects. We designed a prototypical strategy of microhousing units for people who needed affordable housing. Instead of designing the mid-rise tower for a specific site in mind, the team’s goal was to create a set of rules for site design, and typologies for units to be assembled like building blocks at any site (for this competition, or anywhere else).

Through new age structural design, The Grove at Hudson Yards brings a homely touch of timber to the industrial neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen. On the cusp of cultural explosion, the area between the rapidly developing Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project and the bustling Hell’s Kitchen, is ripe for the taking. The subsidized housing tower proposed at 545 W 37th Street strives to bring the community into the conversation as so many other installments have failed. By integrating necessary public program in the first two floors of The Grove, residents and the public get to mingle through common interests and needs; this cultivates a relationship that before was centered on alienation of subsidized residents, and intrusion to the community members.

My personal contributions to the project were as team leader, creating one of the unit typologies, graphical standards, project texts, site plan, exploded axonometric, configuration diagram, and an exterior rendering.

Programs: Revit, Sketchup, Photoshop, Illustrator, Rhino

Images Courtesy of Blackney Hayes Architects