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the volumes outlined by the parentheses also define paths
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programmatic areas (kitchen, dining, living) can either be separated or combined
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through the way lighting reflects against the mesh curtains, varying degrees of privacy can be created
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HBNY (Parenthetical Space)
New York, NY | 2006
[AIA/BSA Interior Architecture Honor Award]
The density of today's urban environments is deceptive: while physically substantial, cities can be quite vacant in terms of actual occupancy. Transactions between peoples, places, and events accelerated by the internet have lent themselves to a nomadic residency that not only contributes to material, space, and energy waste but also to the spiraling cost of housing as stock is artificially diminished. HBNY posits a human-scale solution for this urban-scale phenomenon: operable parenthesis-like divisions allow 12 on-the-go users to territorialize their changing patterns of inhabitation and share the spatial resources of a single apartment.
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