Project Statment:

The project's operates at a micro/macro scale of a city based off the relationship between how infrastructure, domesticity, and circulation can be contained as a whole. A series of surfaces fold down to connect multiple levels between vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Situated in Boyle Heights, CA, the program consist of multiple housing units, that are loosely arranged along a series of surfaces that primarily act as an extension of the urban fabric. By destabilizing the typical housing typology, through the use of ground and posture, we start registering the new relationships between the existing and the new. The use of materiality becomes hyper-specific by indexing the relationship between typical architectural elements-roofs, walls, and windows by re-establishing their order. These typologies serve as an open framework for events to take place that are current in a typical residential neighborhood. These systems of operations break the conventional notions of property lines and lots, by creating new boundaries within the given site. The projects addresses how can we view something such as a city at an micro scale and connect it back to its macro fabric.