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URBAN COLLECTIVE ⁴ : Making Collectivity Operational to Empower Inhabitants, Reduce Housing Costs, Design Adequate Dwellings, and Create Common Spaces
Urban Collective ⁴ seeks to claim, design, manage, and expand affordable housing within a framework of four intertwined collective domains: First, the collective committee acts as a democratic decision-making body…
THESIS IMAGE_Wu, Boyuan (Ken)
OPEN-SOURCE HOUSING: A Transformative Circular Model for Co-creating Decommodified, Incremental Affordable Dwellings.
Open-source housing proposes a transformative model for affordable and sustainable housing delivery. Inspired by existing models of open-source design and production – such as WikiHouse – Open-Source Housing goes beyond…
THESIS IMAGE_Long, Alec
URBSTEADING: A Machine for De-growth
Modern society chases endless growth despite our planet’s finite resources. Degrowth is a concept that radically reimagines society, addressing climate change, capitalism, and human rights through a community-based sustainable lifestyle….
THESIS IMAGE_Liu, Yiqin (Cara)
COMMONING METABOLISM: Spatial Resources, Metabolist Infrastructures, and Affordable Housing as a Collective Commons
Commoning Metabolism combines a contemporary interpretation of the metabolist approach with a restructuring of existing forms of property to increase housing affordability and accessibility by defining infrastructure and spatial resources…
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LEVERAGING SUSTAINABILITY: A Tax Incentive Framework to Reduce Consumption of Resources for Transforming Buildings Into Ecological and Affordable Housing
Leveraging Sustainability envisions a tax incentive framework for renovating, expanding and adapting existing buildings in a more environmentally and socially responsible manner. The incentives are addressing three major aspects when…
THESIS IMAGE_Gong, Ran (Jeremy)
CSR [4W]: Co-operative Stewardship Residences for the Workforce
This project explores an alternative take on what the business world refers to as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Addressing CSR from the perspective of adequate and affordable housing for the…
THESIS IMAGE_Fridman, Igor
BUILDING FAST AND SLOW: The Role of Labor Rights & the Human Body in the Design and Construction of Housing
Building Fast and Slow looks at the trade workers involved in the construction of architecture and attempts to draw a connection between design and the labor it produces. The investigation…
THESIS IMAGE_Chen, Honghu
BEYOND TRADITIONAL TIES: Affordable, Flexible, and Inclusive Dwelling Arrangements for a Multitude of Familial Setups
Beyond Traditional Ties focuses on how social setups beyond the nuclear family can foster innovative forms of ownership and living frameworks to move beyond conventional family housing. Drawing from traditions…
THESIS IMAGE_Cao, Yuqi
SEED: From Vacancy to Subscription-Based Affordable Living
SEED [Subscription-based Elastic Endless Dwelling] explores a subscription-based housing model that adaptively reuses vacant office and commercial spaces to transform them into long-term affordable housing. Inspired by models of subscription-based…
THESIS IMAGE_Bolourchidazech, Amir
PRACTOPIA: An Urban Community Land Trust for Forward-looking, Self-sustaining & Resilient Collective Living Environments.
Practopia proposes a concept of urban transformation that is both pragmatic and reminicent of utopian ideas of collective living. Located in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, Practopia seeks to introduce new affordable…