This project is in hypothetical partnership with the squatters movement that fight for the right to housing. A response to the lack of public housing in the city center of Rio de Janeiro along with the current development of Porto Maravilha in the Port Zone, the housing tower project acts as both an alternative public forum and a platform of communication for squatter movements. 

Enveloped by a lightweight membrane, the structure creates an interiority for the residents and acts as protection from outside forces, while still acting as a symbolic beacon in the city. At the street level, the tower preserves both the exterior and interior layout of the existing warehouse, and the new structure is offset from the existing perimeter 

By combining domesticity with communal assembly, the project provides a variety of scales of communal space for determinate and indeterminate social interaction, from flexible, communal living units to interstitial gathering spaces at each level, all of which are directly connected to the internal public forum courtyard.

Project presented at studio exhibition at the 2016 End of the Year Show, Columbia GSAPP, conceptualized as a 160' long 18"x18" accordion book on a floating chevron shelf, each "V" a chapter.