The world has been turned upside down via a global pandemic, lack of affordable space, inflation, new attitudes about work and life, etc. As a result, the architectural pieces have been shaken-up and spilled back onto the table as a new set of considerations. This now includes questions about what housing is, how it’s organized, what we can share, and how we might work and live in the same spaces both as individuals and as collectives. Parallel to the spatial effects of a global post-pandemic era, are the extreme and unbalanced market conditions which no longer accommodate the workforce, and even more urgently, those who have been systematically disadvantaged and marginalized. As a result, housing has returned to the center of architecture as a rich speculative site. NOW seems to be the time to reconsider housing as an experiment in living.
Undirected
Henry Bell and Kelly Dinh (co-designers)
Co-dividual Housing
