3G2 - ARCH 412 - FALL 2025
STUDENT
Cassie Halszynski
PROFESSORS
Adam Fure, Tess Clancy
The Orchard is a collective housing project developed from a language of fragmented compound shapes. Its form reimagines the meaning of privacy within community through shifting fields of vision and circulation—as a result of the piloti, trees, and curtains. Embedded in the culture of Michigan’s apple orchards, the growing and processing of apples is downscaled and placed within an urban context. The orientation of the site situates the marketplace on the commercial avenue, creating a public entrance to the orchard as both a private community and public park, maintaining residential privacy through elevation while fostering connection through transparent circulation.