[ ONE SIZE FITS FEW ]
RE: Housing Detroit
Student Show 2020 Exhibition Nomination - Fall 2019 System Studio
Affordability and community can be enhanced through shared living, but must be done while carefully considering the potential collapse of individuality and identity. Quality, intimacy, and individuality can be lost through the assumption that everyone’s ideal housing conditions are the same. In carefully considering the positive and negative effects of sharing, One Size Fits Few contains a spectrum of sharing. A variety of unit types and sharing opportunities accommodate people’s wide range of living preferences, while still benefiting from sharing.
The motive for proposing a living typology which fosters variations in sharing is driven by two main observations. First, the site is full of living, playing, learning, and countlesss individual in the neighborhood. Second, we are critiquing traditional housing which categorizes communities through building typologies - “townhouses,“ “single family home,“ “cooperative housing.“ ONE SIZE FITS FEW celebrates difference and collectivism.
The interior atmosphere should align with the facade scheme that represents a clean and elegant visual intention. The living culture signifies a vibrant neighborhood atmosphere, embracing a warm and comfortable living condition that caters single-family.
