Student Housing Building - Brooklyn, New York
Design 301: Comprehensive Design, Pratt Institute School of Architecture (3rd Year, Fall 2002)
Critic: Professor Donald Cromley
This third-year comprehensive design project explored the programming and formal development of a student housing complex. The scheme is organized around a double-cruciform plan that serves as the guiding principle for circulation and program distribution. Rising from a block base, the design features two bold rectangular towers that rotate 90 degrees as they ascend, creating a dynamic yet functional architectural form that emphasizes rhythm, massing, and inhabitable order.
About Professor Donald Cromley
Professor Donald Cromley (B.Arch, MIT; M.Arch, University of Pennsylvania) is an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture, specializing in housing and urban design. In his comprehensive design studio, he emphasized precedent study and firsthand observation, bringing students to exemplary university housing projects to inform their work. His approach directly shaped the development of this student housing project.
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Design 301 | Comprehensive Design - Critic: Professor Donald Cromley (3rd Year, Fall 2002) - Hand-drawn, Building (pencil on vellum)
Design 301 | Comprehensive Design - Critic: Professor Donald Cromley (3rd Year, Fall 2002) - Hand-drawn plans, 1st floors (pencil on vellum)
Design 301 | Comprehensive Design - Critic: Professor Donald Cromley (3rd Year, Fall 2002) - Hand-drawn Exploded Axonometric (pencil on vellum)
Design 301 | Comprehensive Design - Critic: Professor Donald Cromley (3rd Year, Fall 2002) - 4 hand-drawn plans, upper floors (pencil on vellum)
Design 301 | Comprehensive Design - Critic: Professor Donald Cromley (3rd Year, Fall 2002) - Hand-drawn, Building on site (pencil on vellum)
Design 301 | Comprehensive Design - Critic: Professor Donald Cromley (3rd Year, Fall 2002) - Curtainwall Elevation, 2 Sections & Stairwell Plan (pencil on vellum)
Design 301 | Comprehensive Design - Critic: Professor Donald Cromley (3rd Year, Fall 2002) - Stairwell Plan (pencil on vellum)
Design 301 | Comprehensive Design - Critic: Professor Donald Cromley (3rd Year, Fall 2002) - Hand-drawn Axonometric & sections, pinwheel concept (pencil on vellum)