Apartment Stack I-16

This stack of independent residences wishes to address two deficiencies of the modern urban row house: detachment from nature and disconnect from community.
The residential spaces ensconced in a structural exo-skeleton zigzag between the two introverted vegetal facades irrigated by harvested rainwater. Incongruent parts of independent urban lives housed in them are shared by being projected in glazed cantilevers into the interstitial community volumes, between house and façade. The vegetal walls are a community resource that intrinsically links, even visually divorced, spaces of the apartment block. The landscape design of the vertical garden intimately engages with and activates the living spaces by strategically locating seasonal and perennial angiosperms, air-purifying foliage, kitchen herb and gabion patches.