2G2/3G5 - ARCH 562 - WINTER 2025
Rejoin
The REJOIN studio will work on ten distinct lots that frame the Fisher Body Plant 21 in Milwaukee Junction, Detroit to create a new, foundational urbanism for this redeveloping neighborhood. It will address three themes critical to contemporary housing needs: affordable/attainable and equitable housing, changing demographics and evolving family and household formations, and the restructuring of domestic economics and transit to combat climate change. The studio will join the consideration of housing typologies to overcome the current segmentation of options based on age, income, and household structure with collective living programming at the building and urban scale, and construction methods and materials (e.g. timber) to reduce the carbon footprint of new buildings, while developing programming that delivers a greater mix of neighborhood amenities and collective life. We will use an improvisational approach from a given set of prompts to negotiate the relationship among these components and the larger urban scenario produced by the collective of individual studio projects.