MEMORY OF WATER

academic, in-progress // GSAPP // CORE III

This in-progress housing project seeks to design novel housing units on a flood-prone site in the Bronx, New York, leveraging rituals and routines found in former habitats to yield flexible spaces for future tenants. Render was the result of a collaborative process.

“Occasionally the river floods these places. “Floods” is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” -Toni

Morrison

Chase walls supply water for daily routines.

Isometric Section

The section shows how units have exposed plumbing that allows the inhabitants to form their rituals and routines as they please, allowing flexibility and interchangability of spaces and program.

Selected Photography Work