Advanced Public Tenement (APT) is project examining the future of low-income public housing programs developed by governments with rising population growth, used to house guest workers, displaced residents, or recent immigrants. This project will be guided through research into a variety of disciplines such as, science fiction, radical architecture, economics, sociology, ecology, and urbanism, in order to investigate the potential forms that low-income housing will take 150 years from the present moment.  

APT will be realized as a fully functional and full-scale apartment building designed by Heman Chong and Anthony Marcellini, placed at the outskirts of the urban center of a city. The location of the building is chosen by considering that future sites of low-income housing, which will likely be placed at the edges of the city. The architecture, material, and construction methods of this building will reflect speculations about the forms that public housing units might take 150 years into the future.  

The APT building will function as a temporary (with the possibility of it being permanent) live-in residency space for artists, architects, urban planners, economists, sociologists, as well as selected local individuals and/or families who express interest in these concerns and who agree to live in the building. The goal of the project is to create a think-tank like environment to consider and advance these ideas. The result of this think-tank will be a series of publications, videos, audio works, computer and actual models, lectures etc…to further this discussion on the future of affordable housing and urban space.