This studio explores new models of collective, affordable housing through two frameworks: Adaptive P/Re-use and Under New Ownership. Adaptive P/Re-use asks how we can design housing grounded in re-use—embracing the recirculation of materials, buildings, social structures, and environments as necessary. It also introduces pre-use, the idea that future adaptation, transformation, assembly, and disassembly—along with evolving social and ecological contexts—must be integral to design. Under New Ownership questions the dominance of real property systems and the commodification of housing that treat housing as a speculative asset rather than a human necessity. Under New Ownership asks to reimagine property and ownership by investigating forgotten, existing, and potential models—collective, shared, democratic, communal, public, and hybrid. These non-speculative approaches aim to provide long-term, affordable homes while creating a foundation for innovative and equitable housing design that responds to social and environmental realities.
