Newark Deserves Better. . . Containers for Living
Rather than proposing another housing complex, architects aspire to design new types of urban space-
If events occur here and people arrive here…
‘Here’ should change from visit to visit.
This project proposes an ever-changing commercial fabric.
A unique courtyard market- where ‘shipping container stores’ and attractions are continually deposited via truck bed and rail, and later relocated to other parts of the city.
Thus, raising the housing element is an important gesture: the public is invited to explore.
The ‘living boxes’ are articulated so as to call to mind the spectacle and disjunction that resulted from the collapse of Westinghouse- reminding us of the opportunity that exists even within adversity.
Broad Street railway platform has been integrated into the design such that visitors’ first impression
of Newark may well be this civic center with its lively exposition, vivid film screens, and monumental
industrial aesthetic.
Resisting the inclination to directly adapt storage freights into model homes,
They are treated as a source of material.
Each unit begins with a trussed frame which is sheathed in corrugated steel, giving it the rigidity needed
to perform the cantilevering that enlivens the façade and allowing for window walls
to draw in light, air, and views.
Forward-looking public projects sew up the wounds inflicted by the belief that people need to be separated from their city. It is futile to try to build a suburb within a metropolis.
Now is the time to embrace
Urban Domesticity. |
