To provide a framework for these explorations, the studio considered a R&D living hub for the Cornell NYCTech Campus which was under construction on Roosevelt Island. The building would house a rotating class of 12-15 graduate students who would develop a single collective project. Therefore the building must be part dormitory and part start-up. The program included housing; work, production, and meeting spaces; an auditorium, gallery, and cafe; in addition to the requisite service spaces for the building to function.

The gooey enfilade operates as its name implies. The traditional enfilade room condition is rendered "gooey" at the threshold between each room, and the door is extended into a stretched, curving connection. By simply stretching these spaces apart, pushing them together, adjusting scale and rotation of the rooms and placement of connectors, the gooey enfilade provides spaces with a clear sense of hierarchy through size and visual accessibility. In addition, grouping takes place through the number and placement of the connectors, relative location, and similar size.

As a strategy that can be executed in both plan and section, the gooey enfilade separates the traditional enfilade into a series of spaces containing "blocks" of program that hold relative value to adjacent spaces through their connectors. This allows some programs which benefit from a free plan to be provided with large, open spaces in the enfilade, while the more private programs may be compressed and stretched to emulate the privacy of a terminal room condition. Thus the gooey enfilade adopts and controls the strengths of both the terminal and free plan strategies.