Rock N' Roll

Rock N' Roll

“Rock n Roll” by Sara Kaplan, Keily Sarica, and Ellie Wiygul (all BA ‘26), completed for Claus Benjamin Freyinger’s 2025-2026 Senior Undergraduate Studio.

The studio focused on the adaptive re-use of commercial buildings for newly designed co-living arrangements. The intended program: a 60,000-square-foot cooperative living dormitory and learning facility for an art school.

“Rock n Roll” is organized into three zones: high-density living, mid-density living and art/studio space, with communal programs suspended between them in section.

Density becomes both a formal and social ambition, shaping the structure’s circulation and collective life. The scheme transitions from a dense, rigid residential mass aligned to the grid into increasingly open creative work environments. Between these zones, a constructed interior landscape takes shape as a canyon of dirt and rock exposed to light, creating an environmental ecology within the building that supports both living and working.

The structural and sectional system proposes a tectonic logic that is openly machine-like, unconventional in its resolution and legible as a mechanism.