Abstract:

How can housing facilitate coexistence between industry, landscape, and everyday life?

The project explores how collective housing can enable coexistence within an active industrial landscape. Located in Hunters Point, New York, the site is embedded within an industrial zone where large-scale infrastructure dominates the ground and limits everyday public life. Rather than isolating residential space, the project introduces housing as a connective fabric that reclaims residual industrial ground, reactivates abandoned infrastructure, and weaves collective daily life back into the railway green corridor.

The massing strategy selectively demolishes portions of the existing warehouse to release the ground plane as a series of inclusive public plazas. Two housing blocks—one embedded within the warehouse and the other positioned across the Montauk Cutoff—are oriented toward the railway greenscape. Large shear walls structure the buildings, echoing the tectonic logic of surrounding industrial architecture while accommodating diverse housing types.

The spatial organization establishes a clear gradient from public to private, moving from ground-level plazas to shared housing commons and individual units. Together, these layers frame coexistence as an everyday condition, forming an architecture that nurtures living together across industrial, ecological, and domestic realms.