QUEER VILLAGE NEW YORK CITY, NY | 2013

Advanced Studio: Sweet Home Urbanism

Columbia University GSAPP

Critic: Andres Jaque

The notion of a home is no longer confined to the four walls of our dwelling. A home is performed in the city and consists of a series of points that cater to our unique lifestyles. New York City contains approximately three shelters to serve the estimated 3,000 LGBTQ homeless youth. Combined these shelters offer a mere 200 beds which leads many at risk youth to rely on alternative spaces for recreation and shelter. Many of these spaces are contested as other more privileged members of society aim to displace the youth from the few spaces where they are able to express themselves. Queer Village presents a spatial mapping of the streets, piers, churches, and parks that house this community and explores the potential for alternative forms of development within a gentrifying metropolis.

Queer Village re-envisioned alternative development: youth housing LGBTQ Neighborhoods in