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Student Works: Resilient Public Housing from Parsons

Jenny Hindelang, Emanuela Martini, and Silvia Mazzarri.

Ayesha Ghosh and Alex Stewart, 'City Flip'.

Derick Brown and Whitney Shanks | Brown and Shanks employ an outer skin of porous metal, detached from the envelope of the building and creating a light, cloud-like presence.

Derick Brown and Whitney Shanks | Brown and Shanks employ an outer skin of porous metal, detached from the envelope of the building and creating a light, cloud-like presence.

Danielle Bowler and Catherine Carter Sims | Bowler and Sims' scheme stacks trays accessed by long, winding public pathways in a timber-framed structure.

Danielle Bowler and Catherine Carter Sims | Bowler and Sims' scheme stacks trays accessed by long, winding public pathways in a timber-framed structure.

Krithika Iyengar and Sabrina Plum; Iyengar and Plum confront the East River with a tower anchored off-shore, to serve as a place of recreation as well as a space of refuge, drawing people out to the edge in lieu of demanding a retreat from that edge.

'Block Party', Mariam Alshamali and Yuliya Savelyeva.

Joseph Baisch and Jo Garst | Baisch and Garst's scheme voids a layer of space mid-tower block for use as an outdoor common element for the populations of the building.

Joseph Baisch and Jo Garst | Baisch and Garst's scheme voids a layer of space mid-tower block for use as an outdoor common element for the populations of the building.

Abraham Chandler and Rebecca Smith, 'City Deck'.

Felipe Colin Jr. and Jessica Hartwig | A long, horizontal bar of social/common space functions as a space of refuge at the base of Colin and Hartwig's tower scheme.

Kristina Cowger | Cowger manipulates and stretches the shape of the NYCHA towers, extruding them into long, single-loaded bars that its on an excavated surface that fills with water during inundation.

Kristina Cowger | Cowger manipulates and stretches the shape of the NYCHA towers, extruding them into long, single-loaded bars that its on an excavated surface that fills with water during inundation.

Jordan Goot and Mochi Liu, 'Look-Alike'.

Krithika Iyengar and Sabrina Plum; Iyengar and Plum confront the East River with a tower anchored off-shore, to serve as a place of recreation as well as a space of refuge, drawing people out to the edge in lieu of demanding a retreat from that edge.

Krithika Iyengar and Sabrina Plum; Iyengar and Plum confront the East River with a tower anchored off-shore, to serve as a place of recreation as well as a space of refuge, drawing people out to the edge in lieu of demanding a retreat from that edge.