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Stair-Well Housing
Stair-Well Housing represents a concept for modular housing design intended to address NYC's dire need to bring low cost, efficient affordable housing to the five boroughs. Through the integration of private interior and exterior spaces, and the use of a sun-filled common stairwell as the heart of the shared community spaces, Stair-Well Housing marries efficient and adaptable modular construction with the power of design, bringing dignity and joy to its residents.
Stair-Well Housing is designed to take advantage of the many vacant infill lots located in developing, low-rise neighborhoods in the 5 boroughs. The building grows through the repeated stacking of an apartment module in a prescribed pattern. The invention is not in the use of modular construction, but in the single stair run integrated into each module, thus integrating egress pathways into the stack. The accumulated stacking, rotating, and mirroring units results in two continuous egress stairways threading through the network. These exterior stairs serve double duty as a link to communal programs generated by the void spaces between modules - providing common amenities such as laundry facilities, community rooms and roof gardens, while providing healthy ventilation throughout.
Hyper-efficient and operable 216 sf micro-units allow for prioritizing shared spaces, including the space of the stair itself. The multiple pathways through the building recreates the shared urban conditions more typically found at a courtyard or urban sidewalk.
The units themselves are decidedly private, but their position within the system ties into a shared public experience. The resident's sense of ownership is emphasized by the legibility of their module, acknowledging the threshold where each unit meets the common space on all sides. The private exterior spaces accessed from the units expand both the physical and experiential space of these micro-units, as well as each individual's sense of responsibility, ownership and privilege.
Stair-Well Housing is designed to take advantage of the many vacant infill lots located in developing, low-rise neighborhoods in the 5 boroughs. The building grows through the repeated stacking of an apartment module in a prescribed pattern. The invention is not in the use of modular construction, but in the single stair run integrated into each module, thus integrating egress pathways into the stack. The accumulated stacking, rotating, and mirroring units results in two continuous egress stairways threading through the network. These exterior stairs serve double duty as a link to communal programs generated by the void spaces between modules - providing common amenities such as laundry facilities, community rooms and roof gardens, while providing healthy ventilation throughout.
Hyper-efficient and operable 216 sf micro-units allow for prioritizing shared spaces, including the space of the stair itself. The multiple pathways through the building recreates the shared urban conditions more typically found at a courtyard or urban sidewalk.
The units themselves are decidedly private, but their position within the system ties into a shared public experience. The resident's sense of ownership is emphasized by the legibility of their module, acknowledging the threshold where each unit meets the common space on all sides. The private exterior spaces accessed from the units expand both the physical and experiential space of these micro-units, as well as each individual's sense of responsibility, ownership and privilege.
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