There is a common misconception that offsite construction, due to its association with modular design, must be repetitive. The Stack demonstrates its versatility. A total of twenty-eight apartments—a mix of studios, 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms, 20% of them affordable units—were designed to optimize the site’s geometry. In many cases, units and rooms spanned multiple modular sections. Rather than compromising the architecture to the module, we adjusted the modules to fit the optimized apartment layouts.

The Stack relates to the neighborhood through scale and rhythm while still expressing its modular design. The pushing and pulling of the façade celebrates the project’s building logic and echoes the texture of the adjacent buildings. Because the boxes are independently structured, the “push and pull” is already built into their construction logic. This approach takes advantage of an inherent aspect of modular construction, creating a strong relationship to the context without literally mimicking its neighbors.