YORK STUDENT RESIDENCE
2019 / Academic
In collaboration with Phil Carr-Harris and Nick Lupescu
The student residence is reimagined as a stage for daily life, where transparency and casual visibility turn everyday interactions into acts of performance. By fostering a culture of self-presentation, emotional connection, and creative exchange, the design transforms communal living into a platform for personal growth, collaboration, and societal engagement.
We begin by imposing a rigid grid of structures on the site as a departure point
Then, we identify paths for mixed pedestrian and car circulation corridors
Next, we identify shared pedestrian and active mobility circulation
And we create pedestrian only paths on an intimate scale creating access to a residential back-yard condition
Then we disrupt this functionalist grid with a major pedestrian corridor on the North-South axis and bring greenery to the entire site
We connect a series of cultural amenity spaces with an elevated pathway that acts as a raised cultural corridor above the site
The building geometries are redefined by the circulation corridors to generate a variety of spaces
Cultural amenities are located at the intersections of the base grid and elevated cultural corridor