Micro-Unit Gowanus

A multi-residence building located along along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. Intended to serve as a new hub of local small-scale production, the building also looks to incorporate new ideas of small-unit or micro-unit (500 sq ft or less) apartment models. The design is intended to fuse local and small-scale craftsman-oriented professions with a new model for housing. Included are a range of amenity spaces every floor to facilitate resident interaction, communal workshop spaces designed to lower cost-of-production for working professionals and foster a 'working community', exterior sub-spaces designed to further strengthen the relationship between resident/worker/visitor. By providing for a diverse range of potential occupants, the site becomes transformed into a place of gathering and collection of local or regional social capital.

LOOKING DOWN INTO PRIMARY COURTYARD
DIAGRAM DETAILING GEOMETRIC DEVELOPMENT
NORTHEAST VECTOR RENDERING
DEVELOPMENTAL DIAGRAMS
SITE PLAN
 
 VIEW OF SOUTHEAST EDGE OF PROJECT + SECONDARY ENTRANCE
SECTION DETAILING PROGRAM LAYOUT
SECTION + WALL DETAIL
SECTION
LOOKING UP FROM WITHIN PRIMARY COURTYARD
 
GROUND FLOOR
FLOORS 2/3 + 4/5  AND DIAGRAMS DETAILING PROGRAM DISPLACEMENT, SHARED SPACE LOCATIONS AND EASE OF ACCESS. 
PRIMARY GEOMETRIC OPERATION OF FACADE, PLANAR SHIFTING + OFFSETTING
DIAGRAM DETAILING FACADE DEVELOPMENT
PROPOSED MICRO-UNIT CONFIGUARTIONS 
INTENTIONAL DISRUPTION OF FACADE SYSTEM TO FURTHER EMPHASIZE DIFFERENCE. 
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