Advanced Option Studio: The Elastic House — Prototypical Housing for the Perforated City
This studio directs attention to the design of urban house prototypes as multi-scalar instruments. We treat the house not merely as a shelter, but as a site for disciplinary experimentation capable of reimagining how we might live within the idiosyncratic landscapes of the perforated city.
Brother Nature Farms, North Corktown, Detroit.
The thinned residential neighborhoods ringing Detroit's urban core reveal a condition of perforated urbanism, a state in which the void is reimagined as an active participant rather than a site of absence. The "void" becomes a platform for ecological performance, shared infrastructure, and communal agency.
This studio directs attention to the design of urban house prototypes as multi-scalar instruments. We treat the house not merely as a shelter, but as a site for disciplinary experimentation capable of reimagining how we might live within the idiosyncratic landscapes of the perforated city.