This project was assigned in correlation with the Timber in The City competition prompt and the site was located on the waterfront in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC.  This project was designed and completed with my partner, Joseph Skrocki.  The intention of our design was to create a fully integrated and efficient building prototype, thus accounting for the ambiguity of future use. Our design process was driven by a simple structural system that allowed us to explore the possibilities of building with timber.  This was done by implementing the structurally advantageous nature of cross-laminated timber in shear walls and floor slabs.  Through utilizing this rigorous design technique we were able to create flexibility in order to integrate the necessary building systems.  With this integrated system, the building itself had the capability to adapt and change  with differing programmatic functions.  The flexibility that is offered within the structural system allows the transmission of air, water, and energy both horizontally and vertically.  This fulfills the needs of individual spaces regardless of program and size.  This flexibility of program is offered through the permanent chases that are built out to act as structural shear walls.  The systems can also be transmitted through integrated raised floor systems that occur on every other floor.