Common Assets

TIMBER TOWER IN PHILADELPHIA

An Asset tower in Old City that reconfigures its private-public relationship and misreads familiar typology to optimistically reimagine a Philadelphian Market Street wiser with age. The site’s “missing corner” is designed in the lineage of old Gimbels department store through the reappropriation of familiar facades made strange by a contemporary paradigm of program, construction, and surface quality. Rising above, a mass timber tower reframes the luxury pencil typology as an urban asset interlaced with public floors, a plausible fantasy made tactile and functional for the future of Philadelphia.

Collaboration with Matthew Kohman | HOK Futures 2020: Third Place