New Lifestyle Street

We are laying witness to some of the most fundamental shifts to the academic landscape in generations. There is a blurring between the didactic institutional facilities we utilize for study and the dwellings we otherwise take residence in. At the same time, our cities are urbanizing, educational facilities are needing to expand vertically and, on another front, residential affordability for young people is growing more out of reach and becoming less and less unappealing.

New Lifestyle Street is a reaction to these changes. The project converges academic and lifestyle spaces into the one architectural condition to halve the spatial resources required by students. In doing so it creates a single space that thoughtfully reconciles our changing lifestyle needs with our altering attitudes towards pedagogies.

This mashing of architectural typologies is choreographed to break down the spatial separation between young people with sweeping horizontality and interconnection if its vibrant spaces all while encouraging students to take greater ownership of their campus that while looking like a university building is no longer characterized by transient occupation, breathing new life into university resources that may otherwise become less and less relevant.