Adare Brown

CV

Architectural work: 

1. Pacific Mews
   
2. Ask
   
3. Addressing an Urban Corridor
   
4. River Street Studio
   
5. Reed Source
   
6. Convent in the San Joaquin Valley
   
7. Housing on the Gowanus Canal
   
8. Liquid Living
   
9. Trojan House
   
10. Salt House
    
11. Anti-Poche House
    
12. Curtain House
    

Image making:

1. Letters
   
2. Template
   
3. In the garden
4. Still life 2
   
5. Cindy
   
6. Clock tick 
   
7. Harder nails
   
8. Manray
   
9. Pershing
   
10. Daydreamer
    

Free Stuff:

1. Patterns
   
   

Housing on the Gowanus Canal 2020
Independent Projects
Yale School of Architecture
Critic: Miriam Peterson



This proposal for the Gowanus Canal finds potential in integrating multi-family housing and infrastructure development to advance climate mitigation on city-owned land. Where many proposals for preventing flooding along canals contract and ‘armor’ the waterway, this proposal expands and connects the canal into adjacent streets, regaining the absorptive and filtering capacities of the historic marsh on the site. The figure of the original canal is inscribed by durable live-work apartments above.

Here, the residents and the wetland are reciprocal stewards of one other. Contemporary residential development along the Gowanus presents the canal as a picturesque amenity, even though the canal is Superfund site plagued by chronic combined sewage outflow. This proposal allows the canal to testify to the city’s historical and ongoing metabolic processes. Contrasting the dominant mode of development, this housing project foregrounds the inextricable link between urban dwellers and urbanized land to foreground their mutual dependency.