Name: Chloe Kaplan Kristensen
Thesis Advisor: Ryan Tyler Martinez
Thesis Statement:
Dwelling In Between explores how architectural interventions can blur the boundary between private domestic life and the public realm. By extending the intimacy, care, and everyday life of the home into urban space, this thesis redefines dwelling as a collective condition shaped by rituals rather than enclosure. Operating between house and city, the project proposes new typologies that test how materiality, scale, and spatial organization can cultivate environments of shared belonging within an increasingly fragmented urban context. In doing so, the thesis positions home as a spatial idea that extends beyond the individual dwelling, reframing public space as a form of domestic infrastructure that supports collective health and wellbeing.
