#Affordable housing # Transit-oriented development #Street-level community space # Supportive services #Shared localised fresh food hub #Design for social equity #health # well-being #Forested courtyard #Pocket Atrium-Park #Rooftop farm #Edible balcony-garden #Fresh food # Air filtering # Passive cooling

The project envisions a mixed-use housing scheme synthesizing two architectural typologies the residential tower and the double-loaded corridor building in order to establish a diverse and programmatically dense multilayer manmade landscape while connecting the rest of the City College’s site to Hudson’s river waterfront recreational infrastructure.
The proposal responds to the existing surroundings on all four faces of the urban block: To the north side( high density collective residential neighborhood) by establishing more private and local programs, to the south ( high-end neighborhood with vibrant commercial activity and easily accessible by subway line 1)  by creating a more metropolitan and public front, to the Hudson River (artificial recreational waterfront) by connecting to the water and by extending the recreational program towards the city and finally, to the east( Campus buildings) by promoting student-oriented programs so as to better integrate with the adjacent college campus.

This project investigates the Kifisos river through an urban and ecological analysis and proposes measures for restoring the river, creating public space, and enhancing the cultural infrastructure along the two banks. The overall strategy posits the Kifisos river as a new cultural and ecological spine in the city, which mediates its infrastructural functions with its civic and environmental roles. An overall strategy is formed which addresses the ecological continuity of the river, flood mitigation, reconnection of the two banks, and construction of new buildings along the edges. In particular, new navigational and athletic paths are proposed along the restored river as well as sequences of public instances that respond to specific physical, infrastructural, and urban conditions. Smaller-scale proposals include a series of land formation strategies that respond to environmental and infrastructural situations. Last, four new institutional buildings are weaved at the edge of the river, on the basis of which public spaces are redesigned, thus redefining the relationship between urban and ground-topography, water, and vegetation.