As part of the 2025 Workshop, our group collaborated with the NO Office to analyze and interpret a key architectural precedent: the 85 Social Housing Complex. Focusing on the building’s sectional logic, we developed a detailed section model that explored the relationships between building panels, vertical circulation, and materiality.
This exercise not only highlighted the structural and spatial strategies used in the project but also opened discussions on how such design decisions respond to broader issues of density, affordability, and livability in the context of Southern housing challenges.
Our work contributed to a broader dialogue among six regional architecture firms and public officials, each addressing the critical need for thoughtful, responsive housing solutions in the American South.
Collaborators. Harrison Boru, Emma DeMario, Eric Wang, Tucker Wascome, Jennifer White
Organizer: Kris Palagi, AIA – Associate Professor, LSU School of Architecture
