This project takes as its model a city described by Jane Jacobs in 1961, one that has always thrived, a city that is highly mixed, dense, cut up with redundant and active streets, and authentic, a city with a sense of identity and that fosters interaction. If these conditions are an ideal at the scale of the city, I contend they should also be considered an ideal at the scale of the high-rise. The result is an emergent as well as a dynamic morphology continuously changing in response to user needs.Winner of AIA Chicago's Benn Johnck Student Award