FOUNDATION STUDIO III - ARCH 2020 - ELEMENTS OF HOUSING - Spring 2020 - Instructor (Lecturer): Nick Brinen
Elements of Housing is a foundation studio that introduces fundamental concepts, strategies, and disciplines associated with the design of domestic space, from the dwelling unit to the aggregation of domestic spaces into coherent urban blocks. Applied case studies, lectures, and workshops will build a foundation for a series of interrelated design exercises that construct hypotheses about new spatial, formal, and experiential typologies of domesticity that reshape and respond to changing conventions of life in the mid-sized city.
As emergent models of urban development in North America continue to depart from the traditional compact city of fabric, the agency of architects diversifies and expands. New dispersed models of urbanity challenge the traditional post World War II urban/sub-urban dichotomy. They are driven not by traditional core-periphery relationships, but instead come to define more complex systems defined by multinodal global economic systems, extensive mobility networks, and complex systems of resource extraction. As such, the moment is opportune to redefine the role of the urban project within this framework.
Student Work: Alex Pirouz, Abdure Hussien, Julia de Oliveira, Lucy Hu, Andrea Alfaro, John Bono, Andrea Alfaro