Lecturer
Boston, Ma
ARCH7140: Master's Degree Project ("Home Makeover")Spring 2022ARCH7130: Master's Research Studio ("Home Makeover")Fall 2021Studio Description:Housing needs a makeover. In the United States, single-family homes: comprise nearly 70% of the housing stock, account for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, cost $31,000 more than they did at the start of the year, result in average daily commutes of nearly an hour, and are a poor fit for non-nuclear families. Cohousing, in which resources and spaces are shared by multiple households, has the potential to address these challenges by reducing consumption (on the building and personal scale), fostering community, and privileging affordability. One of the biggest barriers in designing it, is that we’re too close to our existing housing to imagine new possibilities. After all, we literally live in it.To overcome this, we’ll undertake a series of design exercises to draw-out these latent potentials via cohousing proposals that respond to the urgent issues of today. We’ll borrow from our disciplinary neighbors (aka inspired housing projects), remix canonical housing projects into shared dreams, reimagine the rooms of the existing house to uncover their hidden lives, learn about the broader context of housing through research and interviews with experts, and more. Narrative and representation will play key roles in the design inquiry.-ARCH2140: Undergraduate Housing Studio ("Urban Walk-Up Housing")Spring 2020 & Spring 2021Housing studio coordinated by Tim Love & Paxton Sheldahl
