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ARCH 502A: Adventures in the Artful Ordinary

Instructor: Hadrian Predock

Ordinary Warehouses, Extraordinary Worlds

This project speculates on how the ordinary architecture of the warehouse, through its scalar drifting and automation is evolving into a new form of urbanism- one where logistics, data, and fulfillment infrastructures radically reorganize the city. At the core of the project is the strategy of radical adjacencies in which ex-urban programs like schools, housing and urban farming are embedded within a mega mat building warehouse. The project explores the dystopian inevitability of warehouse-driven urbanism, questioning whether logistics can remain a passive backdrop or if it has already become the dominant spatial condition of contemporary life.