Housing for Medical Professionals
Rockefeller University, New York City Short and Long Term Housing
Studio Critic: Matthew Jull University of Virginia - Fall 2021
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Drawings

The project offers communal spaces oriented around health, hygiene, and leisure to give the residents a respite from their intense, tiring, and dangerous jobs working in hospitals during a pandemic. The residents share pools, steam rooms, a gym, and a solar lounge to cleanse themselves, meditate, exercise, and relax. The residents enter the building through the chiller plant, the most visible piece of the energy infrastructure of the university, providing energy, water, and steam. This critical infrastructure is the first thing seen by the residents as the elevator brings them up to their unit or to the shared amenity floors. Within the units themselves, the bathing facilities are open and exposed to challenge the expected norms of separation of program in apartments and stigmatization of the body and health.