Architecture has long privileged the pedestrian, defining a normative body while excluding others. As cities face ecological and social transformation, this thesis asserts: the future is wheeled. Rooted in Donna Haraway’s cyborg theory, it centers users who glide, roll, and carve—extending their bodies through wheels. This vision takes form in a radical DMV-skatepark hybrid under a Los Angeles freeway, where ADA-informed concrete slabs undulate and embed “programmatic boxes” to guide movement like a marble run. Universal design isn’t corrective—it’s the foundation. Architecture must now respond to motion, sensation, and the evolving ways humans inhabit space.
ARCHITECTURE ON WHEELS
