Description: "Housing Redux presents the design projects created by students of Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Architecture Fellowship in a studio at the Yale School of Architecture. This edition was led by Nnenna Lynch, Bass Fellow and founder of Xlyem Projects; James von Klemperer and Hana Kassem, principals at Kohn Pedersen Fox; and Andrei Harwell, senior critic in architecture at Yale. The students investigated the New York City Housing Authority typology, specifically Washington Houses, in East Harlem, with the intent of proposing new architectural solutions "addressing the city's affordable-housing shortage while tackling questions of urban fabric and context, public and private space, and mixed-use development as a tool for connectivity." The ultimate aim of the projects was the rethink the affordable-housing formula while addressing equity challenges"--
Review Quotes: "A recent studio at Yale School of Architecture had students proposing affordable housing solutions for NYCHA's Washington Houses in East Harlem; the public housing project consists of more than a dozen towers on three superblocks that are the equivalent of seven city blocks, with open space comprising more than 85% of the site. The students developed master plans and then designed schemes ranging from reimagined brownstones to terraced housing and other ways of weaving more units between the existing buildings. It's refreshing to see architecture students tackling affordable housing in creative ways." --A Weekly Dose of Architecture