
a specimen collection of human habitats and the people that reside alone in them
Since the 1950s, the number of people who live by themselves is growing exponentially. In the 10,000 year history of human civilization, this is the first documented period where large proportions of the population occupy their own, individual, dwelling. Today more than half of the residents of Manhattan live alone. The Watertight collection is an incomplete archive of infrastructure that supports single-occupant living in New York City.


The Process
As the depth information of the environment is collected, the software program Skanect converts the data points into a visual representation in digital form, known as a mesh. Once the mesh is complete, the specimen is prepared for archiving. A computative process, called

The Studio

The Condo

The Boarding House

The Single Resident Occupancy
Hotels repurposed as low-cost housing

The Suburbs

The Supportive Housing
Created by
Caitlin Robinson & Ziv Schneider
3D Printing
Laguardia Studio, NYU
Illustrations
Emily Bell Dinan
A Special Thank You
Tali Keren, Dalit Shalom, Nitzan Hermon, Shir David, Jes K Fan, Lior Zalmanson, Shalev Moran, Cara Francis, Kristin Lucas, Yotam Rozin, Bethany Tabor, David Sheinkopf, Katherine Dillon, and the people who have let us into their homes and allowed us to capture them: Alee, Amelia, Dalit, Emily, Jerry, Lamora, Margaret, Marc, Mei-Ling, Rob, Shir, Thelma and Vitaly
More Details – Contact
c8linrobinson@gmail.com



and the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, TISCH NYU


Made with the kind support of: