9x18

 

New York City currently requires housing developers to build parking spaces in proportion to a development’s number of apartments, each space measuring nine by 18 feet. Where existing requirements can result in underutilized spaces, the research and design project “9x18” explores how updated parking rules could create new potentials for affordable housing.

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Sagi Golan is an architect and urban designer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Tel Aviv University (2011) and an M.S. in architecture and urban design from Columbia University (2013). 

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Miriam Peterson’s interest in architecture grew from her studies in Urban Economics at Cornell University, and was continued in her graduate work at Yale University School of Architecture.

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Nathan Rich received his BA from Wesleyan University and his Master of Architecture from Yale University where he was awarded the James Gamble Rogers Memorial Fellowship.

ShareWhat?!

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ShareWhat?! is an open platform that looks at housing outside of the individual unit, the Historical Context of sharing spaces and services in New York City, the Current Practices of housing collectives, cooperatives and unions. The spatial configurations and processes of decision-making and conflict resolution that help these projects work is of especial interest. After those processes – and the spaces in which they occur – are documented and diagrammed we will begin to postulate Future Visions on how sharing and solidarity practices can affect future architectural and urban design of housing.

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Quilian Riano is the founder and principal of DSGN AGNC, a collaborative design/research studio exploring political engagement through architecture, urbanism, art and activism.

Journal of a Houser: Holistic Neighborhoods

 

A “houser” explores the everyday stories behind the affordable housing she creates. Nadine Maleh brings together design, operations, finance, and neighborhood engagement to develop housing centered on human well-being.

 

Nadine has been responsible for overseeing the design and development of over 1000 units of sustainable affordable housing. She is a member of the Architectural League of New York and Architecture for Humanity, and has been a visiting critic and lecturer at Columbia University, Pratt School of Architecture, Parsons School of Design, and Yale University. Nadine earned her B.A. in architectural studies from Tufts University, and her Master of Architecture with Honors from Illinois Institute of Technology.

New York is My Home

 

An exhibition of “Postcards from Home,” sent by New Yorkers, documents what we value about our houses, our blocks, our neighborhoods, and the city we live in.

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Kaja Kühl was selected along with her the 5 Borough Studio. The 5 Borough Studio is the first studio in a three-semester sequence in the Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design Program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. It is held each summer from June to August. Three ambitions guide the first Urban Design Studio: to nurture a design process specific to existing urban environments; to critically consider site and program; and to interrogate the role of Urban Design as serving the public as a client.