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Professor | Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Principal | GRAFTWORKS Design Research
@domestic_mutations

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"Multigenerational Housing"

Students: Gabriel Hambrick @gabrielhambrick_art, Mikah Liu @mikahliu_arch

Pratt School of Architecture @prattsoa
Prof. Lawrence Blough @lawrenceblough

Final model
Scale 1:8
Materials: Basswood, acrylic, bristol, PLA

The project begins at the individual housing unit, where hinges create shared spaces that expand into larger "eddies", cloister like areas that connect personal living with communal environments.

A core idea is "pushing and pulling away." Parts of the building push outward to engage the community, while others pull back to form entrances and shared spaces like a market and public daycare. Cuts in the facade mark these moments, and a vertical social network guides movement through the building, bringing the neighborhood in while maintaining a clear range from public to private.

Two typologies define the project: a tower and a slab. In the tower, sharing happens at the unit level, workspaces push toward the neighborhood while social spaces move vertically inside. The slab, closer to the street, is more private, with shared outdoor balconies and a rooftop garden connecting residents to the wider Red Hook community. At ground level, a market and daycare pull back from the street to welcome people in, with overlapping circulation systems that balance separation and interaction.

#models_architecture #architecturemodel #modelmaking #scalemodel #sitemodel #facademodel #sectionmodel #architecturemodelphotography #architecturestudent #architectureproject #multigenerationalhousing #housing #prattsoa

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ARCH 302 | SP26 | Multi-generational Housing
Chunk Model | 1/8” = 1’-0”

The project begins at the individual housing unit, where hinges create shared spaces that expand into larger “eddies”, cloister like areas that connect personal living with communal environments.

A core idea is “pushing and pulling away.” Parts of the building push outward to engage the community, while others pull back to form entrances and shared spaces like a market and public daycare. Cuts in the facade mark these moments, and a vertical social network guides movement through the building, bringing the neighborhood in while maintaining a clear range from public to private.

Two typologies define the project: a tower and a slab. In the tower, sharing happens at the unit level, workspaces push toward the neighborhood while social spaces move vertically inside. The slab, closer to the street, is more private, with shared outdoor balconies and a rooftop garden connecting residents to the wider Red Hook community. At ground level, a market and daycare pull back from the street to welcome people in, with overlapping circulation systems that balance separation and interaction.

Professor: lawrenceblough

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PlugIn-Clip-on investigates the possibility for urban life to unfold on residential, commercial and institutional rooftops in New York City while incorporating ecological responsible spatial designs that acknowledge the Climate Mobilization Act enacted in 2019 by the New York City Council.

Option Studio, Initiated by Petra Kempf, Phd with Andrea Yao, Afomia Tesfaye, Harry Park, Oscar Kreft, Lauren Ferrari, Oleg Ivlev, Katherine Xiao, Holy Kim, Claudine Noel, Ella Tsonton, Grace Choi, Jordana Brenes Vega

A big thank you to: Professor Lawrence Blough: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY.; Associate Professor Wyly Brown: Washington University in St Louis; Media Professor Matthew Allen: Washington University in St Louis; Professor Stephen Leet, Washington University in St Louis; Professor Robert McCarter, Washington University in St Louis, and Michelle Hauk, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St Louis

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Case Studies in Design is a collective writing project led by PennPraxis aimed at stimulating culture-shifting dialogue between public agencies, funders, community leaders, schools, and the architecture, landscape, planning, heritage and art fields through a public library of 15 case studies and a summit meeting in January 2027.

Deborah Gans and Lawrence Blough are professors at Pratt Institute and co-directors of the Housing Futures Lab. Together they studied the Church Grove collaboratively-built housing project designed by Architype and Shepheard Epstein Hunter for the Rural Urban Synthesis Society (RUSS) Community Land Trust, inspired by architect Walter Segal’s earlier self-built community in London, Walter’s Way.

Visit the link in our bio to read this and other recently published case studies from our first cohort of authors.

Images:

1. Church Grove Courtyard. [Photo by RUSS]

2. Church Grove Self-builders. [Photo by Ellie Koepke]

3. A Church Grove porch. [Photo by Lawrence Blow and Deborah Gans]

4. Church Gove exterior. [Photo by Lawrence Blow and Deborah Gans]

5. Church Grove Co-design Process—Member Aspirations. [Photo by RUSS]

6. Church Grove Aerial. [Photo by RUSS]

#pennpraxis
#selfbuild #codesign

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Delighted to have our project, Sogovia’s Loop a possible future renewable energy masterplan for Yellowstone National Park, on display in the exhibition Making Energy Visible, curated by Tulay Atak with design by @cloudsao at AIANY Center for Architecture @centerforarch. The exhibition gathers interpretations, representations, and visualizations of energy in architecture. The exhibition unfolds in six partsâ€”Bodies at Work, Sources of Energy, Conserving Energy, Systems of Conversion, Distribution of Power, and Consumption to Expenditureâ€”each presented through a timeline of architectural, infrastructural, and environmental projects. Alongside these timelines, invited artists and practitioners explore how architecture today can make energy perceptible, debatable, and public.

Over the next weeks, we will release more information around this speculative energy masterplan for #yellowstonenationalpark. In the meantime we are simply thrilled to be exhibiting alongside our esteemed colleagues and friends: Karen Bausman, Lawrence Blough @lawrenceblough and Simone Giostra, Exikon (Bernhard Sommer and Malgorzata Nawara Sommer), Judith Fegerl @judithfegerl, Matthias Kessler, CASE @case_rpi, (Fengqi Li, Alexandros Tsamis, Kristen R. Schell), Mosbach Paysagistes @mosbachen, jose sanchez @jomasan, Emmet Sutton @work.in_process, and Michael Wang @mbwang
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Sogovia’s Loop Team : @oparchland Jonathan A. Scelsa, Jennifer Birkeland @jennibbb, Abraham_amelia @abraham_amelia, Antoine Casado @antoine_Casado with Heet Desai @_h.e.e.t_,
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#infrastructure #nps #nationalParks #chemicalarchitecture #methane #pyrolysis #architecturalmachhines #Digging #frombelow #lookingup #detailsmatter #architecturedrawing #drawing #representation #architecturelovers #biochar #newmachines #oblique #imadethat #illustration #superarchitects #critday #thearchiologist

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Opening on October 3rd at AIA Center for Architecture, ‘Making Energy Visible’ exhibition

Curator: Tulay Atak
Graphic design: Annika Ceska
Exhibition design: Clouds AO

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301 Midterm Review at @prattsoa #wip #pratt_ua #comprehensivedesign #newyorkarchitecture

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17 - Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate
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Edited by Tülay Atak; Luis Callejas; Jonathan A. Scelsa; Jørgen Johan Tandberg.
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Routledge, 2024
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“This book presents a series of pedagogical experiments translating climate science research into the architectural curriculum. Attempting to reach balance between science and speculation, it provides practical , demonstrated experiments while also interrogating a designer’s agency in the face of climate uncertainty.”
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#design #architecture #darchbooks #architecturebooks #bookstagram #booklover #bookclub #climate #pedagogy

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Was an honor and privilege to have the book launch of Pedagogical Experiments for Architecture in a Changing Climate this past Monday at the Center For Architecture AIA NY @centerforarch . Thankful for our exhilarating roundtable of contributors and editors focusing on the questions, “What are the impediments that architectural education faces for addressing the changing climate and what must change in our curricula in order to develop an experimental environment of climatism?” With compelling provocations provided by @lawrenceblough, @holesofmatter @it_urbe , @naturalmaterialslab , @petrszko, @asensiomah , @lcla_office, #tülayatak and thank you to @quilianriano and @prattsoa for sponsoring this event. Special thanks to Julian Barroso and @dzoric for the photography. Next stop @aho_architecture_design next Wednesday!
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#architecturalpedagogy #educationofanarchitect
#climatism @routledgearchitecture

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Events this week, through Monday, May 20. More details are always available at nyra.nyc/events

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Representing with Brooklyn’s finest…

Fantastically provocative, strange, and thoughtful student work alongside insightful and compelling conversations with talented design thinkers at the @prattsoa Undergraduate Degree Project Award presentations. Many thanks to @quilianriano @stephenslaughters @farzam.yazdanseta.architecture for the kind invitation.

1. Critics in the wild…
2. @pkulper & @mario_gooden_thisishowwework getting up close and personal w/ Prosthetic Mountain by David Paraschiv @archiifruiit + Oriol Grana Garriga, advised by Jason Vigneri-Beane @jcvb_split + Jonathan Scelsa + Sacha Frey
3. Saltbound Nomad by Megan Ju @mmm_jzy + Beverly Qin @beverly.qin, advised by Jason Vigneri-Beane + Jonathan Scelsa + Sacha Frey
4. Biospheric Tapestry By Emerald Liang + Xinyu Liang, advised by Eva Perez de Vega @eva.perezdevega2023 + Gonzalo Carbajo + Carrie Eastman
5. The Intragames: Shaping the Olympics for Local Publics by Weilin Berkey + Valentine Batteur, advised by Cathryn Dwyre @pneumacat + Evan Tribus @pressg5 + Pierre de Looz
6. Life, Death, and the Eternal Recurrence of Architecture by Roa Kim @g.eroaii + Kelvin Hu @kelvn.hu advised by Adam Elstein @adamelstein + Frank Gesualdi + Ashley Simone
7. SLO: Where a Flight Delay is the Best Thing That Could Happen by Lucien Mount + Martin Restrepo, advised by Ostap Rudakevych + Yetunde Olaiya + Molly Davy
8. Rollin’ Together: Building Bonds Beyond the Highway by Sam Miller + Gahye (Lia) Lee, advised by Ostap Rudakevych + Yetunde Olaiya + Molly Davy
9. Closing remarks and mic drop by the OG @pkulper

#prattsoa #critday #thearchiologist #superarchitects #architecturestudent #architectureschool #archstudent #archschool #archstagram #koozarch

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