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The project is a housing proposal for the Hudson Yards area of New York. Occupied by a train
depot, the site forms a recess in the continuity of the ground plane, while acting both as a
physical division that prohibits any connections of the Midtown part of Manhattan to the Hudson
River as well as a programmatic boundary with transportation and industrial uses bordering the
adjacent residential and commercial areas.
Urban Reef addresses these problems of localized ground discontinuity and programmatic and
physical isolation within a larger urban area, by proposing a highly connected three dimensional
network of housing integrated with commercial as well as recreational uses. Working to a brief
of 3,000 housing units, the normative isolated high-rise building type found in New York, is
replaced by a series of mid rise buildings that incline to minimize structural spans and
interconnect in order to maximize the area available for housing and communal space
development, effectively enhancing social integration.
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