The Project is located in 230 River Street, Troy, NY. In order to respond to the situation of increasing population of incoming students in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institue (RPI), school administrators request to design a new apartment building for student livings. The administrators consider making it a place for connecting incoming RPI students from all around the world and the local citizens from Troy. At the same time, they want to bone up everyone with the Hudson River, the mother river of New York, through this building more closely. Therefore, the design language, “interaction”, will be the focus throughout the whole design process, which includes the interaction between students and local citizens, the interaction between students and the Hudson River, and the interaction between local citizens and the Hudson River.

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