Initial concepts focused on maintaining the walking cadence of the street by retaining the 25' allotment spacing and commercial frontage. Apartments would be lifted off the street.
Care was taken to reduce mimicry (left) by abstracting the forms (right)
Set behind the street frontage shops would be an internal market. Taino culture was built around a communal gathering space
Initial conceptual peering on the central courtyard and the market skylight
