slow water

Columbia GSAPP Core III | Fall 2019
Studio Critic: Daisy Ames

Project in collaboration with Alice Fang

Due to the lack of access to regular maintenance and inability for water infrastructure to adapt to increased population growth and climate change, “Slow Water” puts forth a new model for collecting, cleaning and delivering water to residents in the South Bronx.

According to the 2017 New York Census data, 30% of households are single mothers taking care of children under the age of 18. In addition, hearing firsthand from families there are a lack of safe spaces for kids to as well. This proposal for future living provides housing for single mothers who share similar lifestyles and goals of raising their children within a supportive community and pushes for parent-child and parent-community interpersonal relationships guided by a spectrum of individual and shared water experiences to improve livelihood.

Slow Water hopes to bridge something beyond an economic model of housing sustainability, striving for human driven empathetic spaces. Instead of a hard line distinctions between spaces, the programs are interspersed among the living units, weaving in and out between spaces as a way to connect public and private, wet and dry, shared and individual