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Reconciling the typical Manhattan Grid & the Tower in Park typology: New socio-spatial and programmatic possibilities for a living community at NYC’s former industrial edge.

The proposal envisions a new collective urban housing typology in order to reconstruct NYC on both programmatic and social level, which more adequately synthesizes the scales and the lifestyles between the two dominant urbanism typologies: the typical Manhattan grid and the Towers in Park typology.
The proposal consists of three systems weaved together: the rescaled courtyard block that explores the synthesis between infrastructures and basic housing typologies, the public artifacts that provide civic amenities and multiple housing options and the connective landscape in-between that weaves the two former systems together as well as with the city nearby.
The new spatial arrangements accommodate varied domesticity options for multi-family while the new programmatic amenities and the connective landscapes set the base for a new vibrant, healthy and inclusive place at the city’s edge.
Live, work & enjoy nature: The plug-in balcony system tackles the conventional homogenous and monofunctional office-space design by envisioning shared-space plug-in modules to celebrate life, work, and nature. Thus, employees are motivated and encouraged to work effectively, healthy, creatively.

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Eleni Stefania is a New York-based architect-engineer and urban designer (AIA Associate, LEED Green Associate, ENVSP) focused on designing and building more efficient, intelligent, sustainable buildings and cities.
She graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) with a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design (Class 2020) after having previously completed a five-year degree in Architectural Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. Her work is driven by a people-first approach, tailored to the diverse social, cultural, and economic urban contexts, environmentally responsible, and flexible to adapt to long-term future growth. She has served as a reviewer and contributor for several academic magazines and professional architectural and planning conferences, such as the Urban Economy Forum’s (UEF 5) & ISOCARP’s (WPC59) World Planning Congress 2023, Columbia GSAPP”s “Managed Retreat 2023”, USGBC’s Greenbuild 2023 International Conference and Expo, and UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023, peer-reviewing publications on building technology and climate adaptation for Professor Billie Faircloth & Maibritt Pedersen Zari scientific panel.
Eleni Kalapoda is an interdisciplinary designer on civic, cultural, institutional, and infrastructural projects that integrate systems of economies and ecologies that reimagine the flows of people and resources throughout our cities and buildings, sustaining a holistic and future-responsive strategic framework for resilient urban development that is more equitable, just, livable, and committed to restoring the balance between the Earth’s resources, ecosystems, and the communities that thrive in them.
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