• Transitional Housing

    New York, NY, 1987-1989

    Client
    City of New York
    Occupier
    Single Homeless People
    Architect
    Skidmore Ownings and Merrill
    Senior Designer
    David Walker
    Structural Engineer
    Skidmore Ownings and Merrill
    Services Engineer
    Cosintini

  • Description

    Following a dramatic rise in homelessness in New York in the mid eighties, the City of New York inaugurated an innovative programme of prototype buildings to take single adults and families out of shelters and place them in supportive housing. The buildings were designed by David Walker while working as a senior designer for Skidmore Owings and Merrill.

    The scheme is organised into 'houses' consisting of eight bedrooms arranged into pairs sharing a toilet and shower room with four pairs grouped around a shared kitchen/dining room and double height living room. In section, the house units ‘stack’, with the living space alternating ‘front to back’, while the upper portion of each living room slides behind the kitchen above.

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