With a special emphasis on improving the economy of  individual households in parallel to creating optimal conditions for nurturing citywide innovation, this design hypothesis addresses the spatial dilemma between city development and lack of tenure security.  Aiming towards the creation of a precedent framework that hopefully proves the resettlement of the dwellers as something avoidable, the project highlights the great relevance of maintaining income-generating activities as well as the social bonds between slum dwellers. Via three primary objectives of boosting economic growth, minimizing forced migration, and empowering the urban poor simultaneously, Kobylakiewicz proposes both systematic and self-made expansions that cater to carefully fostered  places of interaction, offering informal pathways, private patios, open air plazas, office landings, and merkatos that stimulate encounters between social, dwelling, and economic realms.

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