In recent years, gathering spaces like these have emerged in nearly every city, becoming key sites for in-person community-building in our isolated digital age. But the design of College Hill’s gathering spaces inverts this logic entirely. Public housing residents become transparent to the state while simultaneously opaque to the public." Public housing residents become transparent to the state while simultaneously opaque to the public. " Residents gathering in the courtyard are observable from surrounding management windows and security stations positioned to overlook the space.