STUDENT
Ryan Britain
PROFESSORS
Adam Fure, Tess Clancy
"Forms of Refuge" creates a variety of elevated and sunken sanctuary spaces that perch above and connect between the existing mixed-use residential/commercial site. The project's early stages involved extensive form-finding and model-making exercises, resulting in the accompanying parti diagram used to guide the collective living intervention. Shared housing units are lifted above the existing structures and arranged with a spatial proximity that echoes the familiar neighborhood arrangement. These units feature overhanging pitched roofs, central stairs, and sunken patios that penetrate through a buffer zone—a lifted interior space containing shared amenities and enabling movement between units.