This project explores how forms of visual representation can be speculative and generate design; it investigates how applying abstraction in architecture, in this case, Victorian architecture in San Francisco, can transform ordinary housing into something that challenges our perception of the familiar. Pixtorian Housing digitally processes Victorian architecture through the lense of a video game – pixels, voxels, grids – to create a larger housing project that mixes different forms of living: coliving, cohousing, and family units. Through digital processing, part-to-whole ambiguities, and exploring degrees of resolution, this new form of living within San Francisco redefines the urban fabric.
Pixtorian Housing
