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Interwoven: A Co-Living Community Utopia
@columbiagsapp Studio V
Professor: Phu Hoang @moduarchitecture
Design Team: @yake.w @hongan.nan

Interwoven proposes an adaptive reuse framework that repositions a former distribution factory in Sunset Park as a culturally grounded co-living and health infrastructure. Rather than imposing a fixed typology, the project establishes a flexible architectural armature that supports bottom-up practices rooted in immigrant communities, particularly Asian and Hispanic traditions of herbal healing. Observing how residents appropriate in-between spaces beyond regulatory boundaries, the design rethinks “health” as embedded in daily rituals, collective knowledge, and spatial negotiation.

Adaptive reuse operates across structure, façade, and material. Two inner buildings retain their pitched roofs, preserving natural ventilation logics and extending this language through lightweight additions atop the remaining structures. Existing red brick façades are conserved, while polycarbonate layers introduce permeability and urban openness. Reclaimed bricks from selective demolition are reassembled as cores within adjacent buildings, transforming subtraction into continuity.

Programmatically, the project foregrounds the in-between as an active field. Angularly placed cores organize “book knowledge” spaces—community kitchen, herbal research, and collaboration with NYU Langone—and “tacit knowledge” spaces for embodied learning. Short-term residences encircle these hubs, fostering exchange among residents, researchers, and visitors. Through layered circulation and porous corridors, architecture becomes a mediator of airflow, culture, and care—an interwoven system where community health evolves through shared space and lived practice.

Interwoven: A Co-Living Community Utopia
@columbiagsapp Studio V
Professor: Phu Hoang @moduarchitecture
Design Team: @yake.w @hongan.nan

Interwoven proposes an adaptive reuse framework that repositions a former distribution factory in Sunset Park as a culturally grounded co-living and health infrastructure. Rather than imposing a fixed typology, the project establishes a flexible architectural armature that supports bottom-up practices rooted in immigrant communities, particularly Asian and Hispanic traditions of herbal healing. Observing how residents appropriate in-between spaces beyond regulatory boundaries, the design rethinks “health” as embedded in daily rituals, collective knowledge, and spatial negotiation.

Adaptive reuse operates across structure, façade, and material. Two inner buildings retain their pitched roofs, preserving natural ventilation logics and extending this language through lightweight additions atop the remaining structures. Existing red brick façades are conserved, while polycarbonate layers introduce permeability and urban openness. Reclaimed bricks from selective demolition are reassembled as cores within adjacent buildings, transforming subtraction into continuity.

Programmatically, the project foregrounds the in-between as an active field. Angularly placed cores organize “book knowledge” spaces—community kitchen, herbal research, and collaboration with NYU Langone—and “tacit knowledge” spaces for embodied learning. Short-term residences encircle these hubs, fostering exchange among residents, researchers, and visitors. Through layered circulation and porous corridors, architecture becomes a mediator of airflow, culture, and care—an interwoven system where community health evolves through shared space and lived practice.

Interwoven: A Co-Living Community Utopia
@columbiagsapp Studio V
Professor: Phu Hoang @moduarchitecture
Design Team: @yake.w @hongan.nan

Interwoven proposes an adaptive reuse framework that repositions a former distribution factory in Sunset Park as a culturally grounded co-living and health infrastructure. Rather than imposing a fixed typology, the project establishes a flexible architectural armature that supports bottom-up practices rooted in immigrant communities, particularly Asian and Hispanic traditions of herbal healing. Observing how residents appropriate in-between spaces beyond regulatory boundaries, the design rethinks “health” as embedded in daily rituals, collective knowledge, and spatial negotiation.

Adaptive reuse operates across structure, façade, and material. Two inner buildings retain their pitched roofs, preserving natural ventilation logics and extending this language through lightweight additions atop the remaining structures. Existing red brick façades are conserved, while polycarbonate layers introduce permeability and urban openness. Reclaimed bricks from selective demolition are reassembled as cores within adjacent buildings, transforming subtraction into continuity.

Programmatically, the project foregrounds the in-between as an active field. Angularly placed cores organize “book knowledge” spaces—community kitchen, herbal research, and collaboration with NYU Langone—and “tacit knowledge” spaces for embodied learning. Short-term residences encircle these hubs, fostering exchange among residents, researchers, and visitors. Through layered circulation and porous corridors, architecture becomes a mediator of airflow, culture, and care—an interwoven system where community health evolves through shared space and lived practice.

Interwoven: A Co-Living Community Utopia
@columbiagsapp Studio V
Professor: Phu Hoang @moduarchitecture
Design Team: @yake.w @hongan.nan

Interwoven proposes an adaptive reuse framework that repositions a former distribution factory in Sunset Park as a culturally grounded co-living and health infrastructure. Rather than imposing a fixed typology, the project establishes a flexible architectural armature that supports bottom-up practices rooted in immigrant communities, particularly Asian and Hispanic traditions of herbal healing. Observing how residents appropriate in-between spaces beyond regulatory boundaries, the design rethinks “health” as embedded in daily rituals, collective knowledge, and spatial negotiation.

Adaptive reuse operates across structure, façade, and material. Two inner buildings retain their pitched roofs, preserving natural ventilation logics and extending this language through lightweight additions atop the remaining structures. Existing red brick façades are conserved, while polycarbonate layers introduce permeability and urban openness. Reclaimed bricks from selective demolition are reassembled as cores within adjacent buildings, transforming subtraction into continuity.

Programmatically, the project foregrounds the in-between as an active field. Angularly placed cores organize “book knowledge” spaces—community kitchen, herbal research, and collaboration with NYU Langone—and “tacit knowledge” spaces for embodied learning. Short-term residences encircle these hubs, fostering exchange among residents, researchers, and visitors. Through layered circulation and porous corridors, architecture becomes a mediator of airflow, culture, and care—an interwoven system where community health evolves through shared space and lived practice.

Interwoven: A Co-Living Community Utopia
@columbiagsapp Studio V
Professor: Phu Hoang @moduarchitecture
Design Team: @yake.w @hongan.nan

Interwoven proposes an adaptive reuse framework that repositions a former distribution factory in Sunset Park as a culturally grounded co-living and health infrastructure. Rather than imposing a fixed typology, the project establishes a flexible architectural armature that supports bottom-up practices rooted in immigrant communities, particularly Asian and Hispanic traditions of herbal healing. Observing how residents appropriate in-between spaces beyond regulatory boundaries, the design rethinks “health” as embedded in daily rituals, collective knowledge, and spatial negotiation.

Adaptive reuse operates across structure, façade, and material. Two inner buildings retain their pitched roofs, preserving natural ventilation logics and extending this language through lightweight additions atop the remaining structures. Existing red brick façades are conserved, while polycarbonate layers introduce permeability and urban openness. Reclaimed bricks from selective demolition are reassembled as cores within adjacent buildings, transforming subtraction into continuity.

Programmatically, the project foregrounds the in-between as an active field. Angularly placed cores organize “book knowledge” spaces—community kitchen, herbal research, and collaboration with NYU Langone—and “tacit knowledge” spaces for embodied learning. Short-term residences encircle these hubs, fostering exchange among residents, researchers, and visitors. Through layered circulation and porous corridors, architecture becomes a mediator of airflow, culture, and care—an interwoven system where community health evolves through shared space and lived practice.

Interwoven: A Co-Living Community Utopia
@columbiagsapp Studio V
Professor: Phu Hoang @moduarchitecture
Design Team: @yake.w @hongan.nan

Interwoven proposes an adaptive reuse framework that repositions a former distribution factory in Sunset Park as a culturally grounded co-living and health infrastructure. Rather than imposing a fixed typology, the project establishes a flexible architectural armature that supports bottom-up practices rooted in immigrant communities, particularly Asian and Hispanic traditions of herbal healing. Observing how residents appropriate in-between spaces beyond regulatory boundaries, the design rethinks “health” as embedded in daily rituals, collective knowledge, and spatial negotiation.

Adaptive reuse operates across structure, façade, and material. Two inner buildings retain their pitched roofs, preserving natural ventilation logics and extending this language through lightweight additions atop the remaining structures. Existing red brick façades are conserved, while polycarbonate layers introduce permeability and urban openness. Reclaimed bricks from selective demolition are reassembled as cores within adjacent buildings, transforming subtraction into continuity.

Programmatically, the project foregrounds the in-between as an active field. Angularly placed cores organize “book knowledge” spaces—community kitchen, herbal research, and collaboration with NYU Langone—and “tacit knowledge” spaces for embodied learning. Short-term residences encircle these hubs, fostering exchange among residents, researchers, and visitors. Through layered circulation and porous corridors, architecture becomes a mediator of airflow, culture, and care—an interwoven system where community health evolves through shared space and lived practice.

Interwoven: A Co-Living Community Utopia
@columbiagsapp Studio V
Professor: Phu Hoang @moduarchitecture
Design Team: @yake.w @hongan.nan

Interwoven proposes an adaptive reuse framework that repositions a former distribution factory in Sunset Park as a culturally grounded co-living and health infrastructure. Rather than imposing a fixed typology, the project establishes a flexible architectural armature that supports bottom-up practices rooted in immigrant communities, particularly Asian and Hispanic traditions of herbal healing. Observing how residents appropriate in-between spaces beyond regulatory boundaries, the design rethinks “health” as embedded in daily rituals, collective knowledge, and spatial negotiation.

Adaptive reuse operates across structure, façade, and material. Two inner buildings retain their pitched roofs, preserving natural ventilation logics and extending this language through lightweight additions atop the remaining structures. Existing red brick façades are conserved, while polycarbonate layers introduce permeability and urban openness. Reclaimed bricks from selective demolition are reassembled as cores within adjacent buildings, transforming subtraction into continuity.

Programmatically, the project foregrounds the in-between as an active field. Angularly placed cores organize “book knowledge” spaces—community kitchen, herbal research, and collaboration with NYU Langone—and “tacit knowledge” spaces for embodied learning. Short-term residences encircle these hubs, fostering exchange among residents, researchers, and visitors. Through layered circulation and porous corridors, architecture becomes a mediator of airflow, culture, and care—an interwoven system where community health evolves through shared space and lived practice.

Interwoven: A Co-Living Community Utopia
@columbiagsapp Studio V
Professor: Phu Hoang @moduarchitecture
Design Team: @yake.w @hongan.nan

Interwoven proposes an adaptive reuse framework that repositions a former distribution factory in Sunset Park as a culturally grounded co-living and health infrastructure. Rather than imposing a fixed typology, the project establishes a flexible architectural armature that supports bottom-up practices rooted in immigrant communities, particularly Asian and Hispanic traditions of herbal healing. Observing how residents appropriate in-between spaces beyond regulatory boundaries, the design rethinks “health” as embedded in daily rituals, collective knowledge, and spatial negotiation.

Adaptive reuse operates across structure, façade, and material. Two inner buildings retain their pitched roofs, preserving natural ventilation logics and extending this language through lightweight additions atop the remaining structures. Existing red brick façades are conserved, while polycarbonate layers introduce permeability and urban openness. Reclaimed bricks from selective demolition are reassembled as cores within adjacent buildings, transforming subtraction into continuity.

Programmatically, the project foregrounds the in-between as an active field. Angularly placed cores organize “book knowledge” spaces—community kitchen, herbal research, and collaboration with NYU Langone—and “tacit knowledge” spaces for embodied learning. Short-term residences encircle these hubs, fostering exchange among residents, researchers, and visitors. Through layered circulation and porous corridors, architecture becomes a mediator of airflow, culture, and care—an interwoven system where community health evolves through shared space and lived practice.