︎︎︎ Perspective of public arrival to the building from a boardwalk which connects the site to the ferry and shoreline.

This project seeks to move the pre-occupation of architecture beyond human-centered design by addressing the evolving coastline, prioritizing the lives of plants and animals, and imagining the enduring function of a building (before and) after human occupation. Concrete shell structures emerge from Hallet’s Cove, acting together as a wave break and an underwater habitat for fish and other wetland fauna. The proposal depicts the current adaptation of the "building" as housing through the adherance of contrasting, barnacle-like structures. These housing structures imagine a new type of cooperative living, where typically private programs are inverted as shared and celebrated spaces of collectivity.

︎︎︎ Axon revealing the composition of the project, suggesting the variable duration of both use and materiality.

Context

Site Strategy

Co-Housing Typology

︎︎︎ Plan of overall site system which infills the missing shoreline and offers a connective park that serves as a protective sponge against rising tides. 

Views of new adjacencies which blur the boundaries of public and private space; from the open kitchen and bathrooms, to the personal dormitories, and the collective central courtyard.