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This project is designed for New Housing, New YorkDesign Ideas Competition by GAD Architecture and SU11 architecture.

In contemporary urban life, the notion of dwelling has undergone a series of transformations. Our culture of everyday-life has long broken down the stricter separations between public and private domains and started to blur live, work and leisure activities into a series of complex relationships and mutually dependant conditions.

Home has become a hub for information, exchange, communication and connectivity in addition to remaining a place for retreat, calmness, security and containment. Existing building types, like the ‘Brownstone row-house’ do provide the former while all the issues of information, exchange and interaction are separately provided by added (and often hidden) technology rather than being a more integral part of the design concept.
This building aims to provide a large amount of flexibility on a programmatic level while also engaging the inspiring street life into its concept.