NATURAL DICHOTOMY

Design 03 (Fall 2021) Brooklyn, Ny

In Collaboration with Diana Azbenova

Professor: Stephanie Bayard

With the increasing need of affordable dwellings, many large public projects were built over multiple city blocks, interrupting the local grid. Farragut Houses, site of our studio project, instead organized the towers according to sunlight and the desire to create public green spaces. The large strict fences surrounding the green spaces reinforces the feelings of boundaries and isolation.

Our proposal to design a housing project that reconfigures the landscape, redefines community and education through Greenhouses and biological labs, reshapes the connection to the nearby Farragut Tower and overall, through the use of landscape, blurs the boundaries between different communities in order to bring people together.