
granular happenings
LoLux Care
Adaptive Reuse Housing
Fall 2023
Critic Jonas Coersmeier
Brooklyn, NYC
Located in Downtown Brooklyn, Farragut is a public housing facility funded by the New York City Housing Authority. In response to existing site conditions and the multi-generational care that exists between current residents, this project spatially and programmatically proposes a forward-thinking economic model that prioritizes a culture of care through three scalar interventions that alleviate dependence and encourage communal exchange through food. Materiality sits at the forefront of this proposal. Initial analog studies done with plastic and concrete fundamentally shape core underpinnings of the overall design and inform speculative spatial, structural, and programmatic solutions. Drawing from the interactions and blurred thresholds of these material blends, this project proposes a model that promotes support and interaction literally from the ground up. These scalar interventions include estate, courtyard, and building - all of which intervene at their own autonomous scale and integrate to form a unique response to the need for site densification and spatial cultivation. Combining both tower and bar typologies, the formal intervention at the building scale abides by the original pinwheel form of the existing buildings, yet introduces new means of circulation and visual connectivity between varying scalar interventions.