Type: Visualization

Company: GSAPP (Educational Institution)

Service: Graphic Design

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Winner Center of the Buell Paris Prize

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In the South Bronx, 72.4% of households are families, and 41.9% are led by single women caring for children under 18. Conversations with parents and children revealed a lack of safe spaces for kids and limited access to clean water infrastructure. This project visualizes and celebrates water as both essential infrastructure and a social connector, showing how it permeates the macro scale of the city, the building, and the daily lives of its residents. The design is organized through a three-part water system diagram: a rainwater harvesting layer, a fixed “wet band” distributing potable and non-potable water throughout the building, and a “living machine” that purifies wastewater through ecological basins. The drawing emphasizes open social connectors and play spaces formed by corridors and bridges that link apartments to communal baths. The result is a networked environment where water infrastructure, social interaction, and spatial design support single mothers raising children within a supportive community.

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