The site contains an existing tower senior house that will be demolished and a pre-K to 8 school across the street. The generation gap between the two age groups is prominent as there are few spaces and media allowing interactions. Could we provide housing that helps to create memories shared by both the young and the old? 

The proposed 92-unit housing project is located within Melrose, Bronx, which has a unique demographic composition of 30% under-18 population and a majority of single households. The site also houses a major local senior home that suffers from its outdated design and will be replaced. The new building's architectural layout provides many scales of communal spaces that lace throughout the building: each apartment extends beyond its own walls into a mesa-spatial zone which not only provides a thermal buffer to the exterior climate in either cold days or warm conditions but also creates a layered interior that extends as well as reconfigures inhabitants' living spaces depending on the season and time of day.