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CO: Micro Apartments

New York, NY

The Co: is designed with a focus on contemporary, compact apartments that connect residents to the natural environment and a rich sense of community. Through elegant, sustainable architecture, The Co: demonstrates that well designed micro-units, when combined with thoughtfully programmed amenities and common areas, offer a high-quality, affordable, and sustainable solution to the housing needs of many New Yorkers. This proposal was assembled in response to the NYC HPD pilot program to develop an entirely new model of housing. Our team included Grimshaw Architects, Jonathan Rose Companies, Scape and Life-edited with whom we rethought urban dwelling in order to create a new model that is compact, connected and complete. While our response creates light-filled, highly functional apartments, it is equally focused on providing communal spaces and amenities that extend the living area beyond the units themselves and create a sense of community that will enrich the human spirit. The micro-units celebrate an urban, clutter-free life that is balanced by ample opportunities for exercising, eating, relaxing, cooking, collaborating, working, and living.

 

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