The social impacts of new and unpleasant environments are inescapable for most urban dwellers who relocate to the city for work. As conditions in the city become more tense, it is evident that people need spaces to create organic and welcomed interactions, rather than being forced to face their neighbors in wasted spaces appropriated as ‘public space’. Exploring how to reinstate the sense of community and social life in these scenarios, “Respite: A Breathing Space in a City of Acrimony” focuses on the creation of buffer zones that may enable peaceful and spontaneous interactions within a city of increasing acrimony. Through open spaces implemented in ranging scales, the project proposes housing that is intertwined with public spaces which are formally designed with the inhabitants’ best interests at heart, both responding to different site conditions as well as accommodating for different user groups that enhance neighborhoods and communal life.

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