The 4th year “Urban Dwellings” studio is continuation of the Architectural Studio sequence with major emphasis on program analysis and design of urban building(s) and urban spaces with culture, context and precedent as major form determinants. The proposed site for this studio is located in the post-industrial area of Brooklyn Red Hook within the New York City metropolitan area. With a long history of changes and transformations, from a glorious pasty of industrial development to a rapid decline that made it, according to Life, the “worst” neighborhoods in the United States, Red Hook in Brooklyn clearly represents the high complexity of contemporary environmental and social transformations happening in consolidated urban environments. The Studio proposes to explore new housing typologies by developing hybrid urban and architectural thresholds from the ground up. Hybrid housing and infrastructural systems will act as catalysts for collective engagements, human well-being and community making, while re-defining the mix-used housing block as the basic unit through which to promote new forms of sustainable urban development in cities’ post-industrial and low-income areas.