This is an adaptive-reuse project of a typical parking structure into a new type of innovative housing development. 810 Fulton Street West (Fulton and Straight) is the site of an existing parking ramp (specification dealing with the existing parking structure will be in this color and serif font) with nearly 100 parking spaces as well as retail on the ground floor. The developer is interested in adaptive-reuse as revenue from its current main use (parking personal automobiles) is no longer viable due to societal and market shifts.

The Parking Ramp Village project has a number of goals and objectives. As a speculative prototype for a future housing solution, the project acts as a tool in the Designer’s larger quest to bring light to greater social issues. Although this report approaches the concept from a technical, systems integration methodology and aesthetic, the Designer accepts that not all performative issues are resolved. The main goal of Parking Ramp Village is to contemplate the nature of population shifts and challenge the short-sighted, profit driven system of property ownership and development. As a space, the Village aims to be vibrant and lively. The attempt has been made to turn cold and dark into warm and welcoming.