CART
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Cart City
Food Truck Housing

Cart City

Create a multi-use building and space that acts as an attractor for redevelopment in one of New Haven's up-and-coming nine square blocks. Define a work program that requires the response of a new architectural strategy. Insert a live/work housing prototype that adds a vertical profile to downtown while converting an underutilized public path into an urban gesture.

PROGRAM: The introduction of a third food cart zone in New Haven. The site becomes a destination on New Haven’s busiest food streets (Orange St + Crown St) while establishing a new user-base and locale. The linking and fostering of networks becomes a strategy for developing the relationship between LIVING space and WORKING space and also the overlap between units within the building.

MOVING ROOM: Add a shared and negotiated live/work space. Residents would rent and appropriate the space as a means of expanding their environment. This space can be communal if used on the shared floors or private if attached to living units. The greater community sees the space as a spectacle and interfaces with it when it services the park. The position of the room in profile would be synonymous with certain activities. Common living/working clusters can negotiate the borrowing of the room as a shared common space for multiple residents. It becomes a discussion among the complex and its desirability keeps it active.

PROGRAM: Live-work Housing

CONTEXT: New Haven, CT, USA

SITE: Art Space, Chapel St. + Orange St

CRITIC: Joel Sanders

YEAR:
2012
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Infill

Housing

Urbanism

Infrastructure

Diagram showing the infill site for the CART project within the skyline of New HavenDiagram showing the infill site for the CART project within the skyline of New HavenDiagram showing the infill site for the CART project within the skyline of New HavenDiagram showing the infill site for the CART project within the skyline of New Haven

SITE: The building is set in back of the local Art Space park. Installations rotate throughout the year, but the most active element remains the bus stop which services downtown from the outlying neighborhoods. Hundreds of people land and linger on the site throughout the day. Insert a live/work housing prototype that adds a vertical profile to downtown while converting an underutilized public path into an urban gesture.

Diagram showing the infill site for the CART project within the skyline of New Haven
Diagram showing the infill site for the CART project within the skyline of New Haven

PROJECT IMAGES

Section drawing of the CART project showing the housing lifted above the public alleyway and the shared communal spacesSection drawing of the CART project showing the housing lifted above the public alleyway and the shared communal spacesSection drawing of the CART project showing the housing lifted above the public alleyway and the shared communal spacesSection drawing of the CART project showing the housing lifted above the public alleyway and the shared communal spaces
Model images of the CART proposal showing the front and back structures without facades to emphasize the internal functionsModel images of the CART proposal showing the front and back structures without facades to emphasize the internal functionsModel images of the CART proposal showing the front and back structures without facades to emphasize the internal functionsModel images of the CART proposal showing the front and back structures without facades to emphasize the internal functions
Diagrams of the possible variations of the moving room at various levels of the CART projectDiagrams of the possible variations of the moving room at various levels of the CART projectDiagrams of the possible variations of the moving room at various levels of the CART projectDiagrams of the possible variations of the moving room at various levels of the CART project
Study model of a staggered unit concept for the CART tower weaving shared space and private space for communal cookingStudy model of a staggered unit concept for the CART tower weaving shared space and private space for communal cookingStudy model of a staggered unit concept for the CART tower weaving shared space and private space for communal cookingStudy model of a staggered unit concept for the CART tower weaving shared space and private space for communal cooking
Diagram series showing the various functions and spaces connected throughout the CART housing projectDiagram series showing the various functions and spaces connected throughout the CART housing projectDiagram series showing the various functions and spaces connected throughout the CART housing projectDiagram series showing the various functions and spaces connected throughout the CART housing project
Study model of the CART tower with two scales of elevators for moving food carts and people to the communal spacesStudy model of the CART tower with two scales of elevators for moving food carts and people to the communal spacesStudy model of the CART tower with two scales of elevators for moving food carts and people to the communal spacesStudy model of the CART tower with two scales of elevators for moving food carts and people to the communal spaces
Section of the thin 16' alleyway profile infilled by the CART project revealing the relationship to the adjacent rooflinesSection of the thin 16' alleyway profile infilled by the CART project revealing the relationship to the adjacent rooflinesSection of the thin 16' alleyway profile infilled by the CART project revealing the relationship to the adjacent rooflinesSection of the thin 16' alleyway profile infilled by the CART project revealing the relationship to the adjacent rooflines
CART study model with an angled profile that pulls down to the intersection of the alley and the parkCART study model with an angled profile that pulls down to the intersection of the alley and the parkCART study model with an angled profile that pulls down to the intersection of the alley and the parkCART study model with an angled profile that pulls down to the intersection of the alley and the park
Section perspective diagram of interaction with the CART moving room lift that extends the main living spaceSection perspective diagram of interaction with the CART moving room lift that extends the main living spaceSection perspective diagram of interaction with the CART moving room lift that extends the main living spaceSection perspective diagram of interaction with the CART moving room lift that extends the main living space
Section sketch of the concept for a moving room that extends the CART shared spaces and links to the park belowSection sketch of the concept for a moving room that extends the CART shared spaces and links to the park belowSection sketch of the concept for a moving room that extends the CART shared spaces and links to the park belowSection sketch of the concept for a moving room that extends the CART shared spaces and links to the park below
Collection of study models for CART looking at variations of shared and private space throughout the towerCollection of study models for CART looking at variations of shared and private space throughout the towerCollection of study models for CART looking at variations of shared and private space throughout the towerCollection of study models for CART looking at variations of shared and private space throughout the tower
Plan animation showing the various levels and interactions between various spaces and CART's moving room extension spacePlan animation showing the various levels and interactions between various spaces and CART's moving room extension spacePlan animation showing the various levels and interactions between various spaces and CART's moving room extension spacePlan animation showing the various levels and interactions between various spaces and CART's moving room extension space
Diagram showing the infill site for the CART project within the skyline of New HavenDiagram showing the infill site for the CART project within the skyline of New HavenDiagram showing the infill site for the CART project within the skyline of New HavenDiagram showing the infill site for the CART project within the skyline of New Haven
Series of sectional sketches looking at the distribution of private and shared spaces in the CART infill towerSeries of sectional sketches looking at the distribution of private and shared spaces in the CART infill towerSeries of sectional sketches looking at the distribution of private and shared spaces in the CART infill towerSeries of sectional sketches looking at the distribution of private and shared spaces in the CART infill tower
Site plan diagramming public and private circulation around the alleyway infill site of the CART food cart housing projectSite plan diagramming public and private circulation around the alleyway infill site of the CART food cart housing projectSite plan diagramming public and private circulation around the alleyway infill site of the CART food cart housing projectSite plan diagramming public and private circulation around the alleyway infill site of the CART food cart housing project
Section studies for the interaction of various share spaces for food cart lifestyles in the CART housing projectSection studies for the interaction of various share spaces for food cart lifestyles in the CART housing projectSection studies for the interaction of various share spaces for food cart lifestyles in the CART housing projectSection studies for the interaction of various share spaces for food cart lifestyles in the CART housing project

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