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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'.

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.