Unpacking the Home: Urban Cabins

 

Distributed living units creates new model for shared living in upper Manhattan
Distributed living units creates new model for shared living in upper Manhattan
 
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Site photo: former Packard car showroom, Sherman Avenue
Site photo: former Packard car showroom, Sherman Avenue
 
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Massing model
Massing model
 
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Garden level and green roof are connected by continuous green voids
Garden level and green roof are connected by continuous green voids
 
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Typical residential floor plan
Typical residential floor plan
 
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The Luxe: 142 sf
The Luxe: 142 sf
 
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The Snug: 92 sf
The Snug: 92 sf
 
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Shared space for dining and relaxing between private units
Shared space for dining and relaxing between private units
 
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Unpacking the Home: Urban Cabins

Stan Allen ArchitectRafi Segal A+U

Design team:

Chris Oliver, Jessie Turnbull

Research:

Alix Beranger, Whitney Brooks

Models:

Jesus Yepez Mendoza

Inwood

A new model for single room occupancy and shared loft spaces

The Urban Cabin (or Urban Kibbutz) combines an existing parking garage base with five additional levels of new-build housing. The housing levels are sandwiched between a greened roof and a garden level on the roof of the existing structure, which becomes commercial and public space – supermarket, gym, farmers market, shared car station and shopping arcade.

The housing unit here is a single room which is leased by an individual or couple and informally arranged according to the inhabitants will within the large floor plates. Shared amenities such as kitchens, sitting areas, working area, bathrooms, library, home cinema, are dispersed throughout the remaining large floor plate. Abundant space and shared amenities are available, in addition to large open court yards which connect between all floors, while maintaining the privacy of the home unit.

Singles and newly arrived tenants to New York City can find here an affordable room without compromising on living space which in parts becomes a social spaces for meeting people.

Watch video of the team's full presentation

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