ARCH 412 (3G2) 12

A New Urban Paradigm

David Vega
Leah Wulfman
“A New Urban Paradigm” aims to implement the overall story embedded within the built environment of the preceding group project founded in the re-densification of a single-family housing plot. This deployed a challenge not only to the paradigm and issues related to today’s low-income public housing but an urban typology of the “Tower and Park.” The project focuses on translating within an urban context, a design of a plinth becoming a building form utilized by the community to engage within a larger community. The Plinth Becomes this form of an activated ground plain in which community can engage above and…