Let's Invite the Neighborhood!

From Wikipedia: The settlement movement was a reformist social movement, beginning in the 1880s and peaking around the 1920s in England and the US, with a goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community. Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of their low-income neighbors.

During this project, the design team created a conceptual space that blurred inside and outside, private space and public space, and old and new.

Existing Building: