The conflict between city and suburb is in many ways perceived as a series of opposites: individual and collective, garden and machine, tranquility and chaos. This project, situated on the boundary of city and suburb, seeks to mediate those conditions. The architecture operates at four distinct scales of engagement. The smallest scale–the unit–represents an adaptation of a modular suburban home, with two levels and a backyard. Twelve units comprise the next scale–the subdivision–which consumes two floors and includes at least one communal patio. The third scale–the site–consists of a series of vertically stacked subdivisions resting in an urban plaza that proposes an alternative to the typical “base-tower” condition. The fourth scale, the city, mediates the individual project with the systems of transportation and commerce that intersect at the site.
