Eileen Welzel & Noah Kaiser

At the center of the project lies the pathway. As a way of knitting together old and new, working and living as well as two different plots. It takes up the forms of the existing and looks for an answer through shape. Conceived as a loop, it connects a series of activity pockets along the new and the existing building edge, creating a series of spaces, that take into account the orientation, topography and existing forms on the site. In the ground floor ateliers and a communal workshop find their place along the pathway and look for an opening to the public side. Sheltering roofs and cantilevering balconies, make a second layer over top the pathway and give shape to outdoor rooms together with the building edges. The Pathway connects important entrances and works as the main circulation system on the plots. Added stairs and walkways close the loop over multiple levels. Three volumes close the plot toward the street and continue the buildings complex’s formal language, also enclosing small semi-private outdoor space for the mixed household types dwelling on the site. The public functions along either edge of the path suggest a program for the space, however also leave gaps for people to adapt in the same way these interventions on the existing sometimes speak a rude language of haphazard additions, that adapt (to) the existing.