Affordable Housing Supply

On Nov. 15th and 16th, 2024, the J Max Bond Center for Urban Futures hosted ARCH @ 60: Bridging Past Visions and Present Realities, a symposium that brought together practitioners, advocates, and academics to reflect of the legacy of the Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH)

Currently, most air rights transfers are used to create a distinctly financial style of building, the super-tall. This project proposes a smaller scale approach, unlocking air rights above existing residential development, adding 2-4 stories to create a higher, yet still contextually relevant, density.

Max Bond Jr.’s own years of professional practice dedicated to the building of the then young Ghanian country in the 1960s served as a fruitful and inspiring model for this collaboration. The three organizations responsible for this work established an agreement to work collaboratively on the research and creation of a comprehensive and sustainable development strategy for Accra.