Perry Street is a residential hypothetical project in one of Richard Meier's buildings in the West Village.

The concept of this project is based on the necessity for mobility and flexibility in a rapid fluctuating city such as New York within a residential, restricted context like this one.  Restricted because of the required program for each person that inhabits it, because of the existing immovable structure and also because of the big architect name that designed it. 

Within this context, this project also questions our necessity for privacy within our own homes when our private and personal lives are evermore public in other contexts, such as the virtual world.  It is an exploration of reversing this train of thought through the use of spaces and interior design resources that limits its privacy and therefore forces you to plug out of the virtual world and interact in the real world with its other inhabitants. As another way of making us conscious of our lack of interest in interacting with each other as opposed to making ourselves a virtual product and a part of the consumerism addiction we have, the apartment is sold with an instruction manual.  The instruction manual tells you how to use your movable and rotating partitions on one hand, but it more importantly gives you six easy steps to relearning how to enjoy a home experience.  

In order to acheive flexible and mobile spaces that meets not only the needs of the hypothetical, multi-generational family that will inhabit the apartment immediately, but also the needs of future tenants, a central core for plumbing and the immovable structure was created.  From there, partitions, furniture and other volumes move, slide and rotate to create a great amount of layout and distribution options for each of the spaces of the dwelling.  The distribution options can be seen in the plans below.