Irina Rouby Apelbaum

Damn, You Live Like This?

This thesis looks at the repurposing of a decommissioned hospital in North York as a site for the building of neighbourhood relationships between gossip and loneliness. Drawing from morphological, tectonic, and narrative research into the commons of 14 houses across three cities, this project invents a series of interstitial spaces of encounter in existing and new buildings. Design interventions include housing, public routes, and common spaces created via additions, removals, maintenance, and bricolage. Thresholds and fluid boundaries negotiate connections among agents and neighbours that are based on frankness, and which facilitate mutual aid.

Advisor: Petros Babasikas