Cooper Union Architecture Archive : Student Project : Levittown Project: House of Things [ARCH_121_GanchrowRaviv

Abstract

The house seeks to update the shifting communal notions on the backdrop of the original Levittown municipality. under these guidelines the house is transformed from a place of permanency to a place of transit, where the tenant arrives via a mode of transportation in order to either places/receives/or exchanges items in their house of things.

Title

Levittown Project: House of Things

Author

Ganchrow, Raviv

Course

Design II

Academic Year

1996–97

Semester

Spring

Faculty

Douglis, Evan
Scofidio, Ricardo
Webb, Michael

Problem Type

Levittown House

Program Types

House

Architectural Elements

N/A

Site

Levittown, New York, United States

Photographer

Guerra, Lorna
Pro-Lab

Subjects

domesticity
Planned communities
Privacy
Housing
Nuclear families
Storage
renovation
residential mobility

Author Text

Author text, Raviv Ganchrow, ARCH 121 Design II, 1996-97, spring.

Faculty Text

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