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Charles J Thomas

Charles J Thomas

New York, NY, US

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mixed-use residential
mixed-use residential
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Overlap

What does it mean to dwell in single living unit within the massive housing project scheme? How can the basic necessity of shelter become one of experience and wonder? In this instance, an idiosyncratic housing condition was investigated and exploited.


Five separate units -- interlocking, twisting, contracting, expanding -- originate from a ground-level entry point. All contained within a standard housing block footprint, these units create authentic adjacencies and apertures. A shelter is now an event of extreme concealment and exposure.


CRITIC _KAREL KLEIN with ELLIOT WHITE

SITE _WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

 
industrial living
industrial living
interlock, twist, contract, expand