2G2/3G5 - ARCH 562 - WINTER 2025
STUDENTS
Danah Owaida, Jordan Lindberg
PROFESSOR
Laura Peterson
Situated along Detroit’s Riverfront near Belle Isle, the project aims to imagine housing for larger groups of people with familial bonds, and how we can foster care for pollinators and other fauna. We designed schemes for three-to-five bedroom single family units to explore how a dense housing collective could function while still considering exterior space and atmosphere. The design revolves around a long boardwalk that offers a direct sightline from the street right into the Detroit River, as a way to signal publicness and return the riverfront back to Detroiters as a third space. Envisioned with the involvement of Bees in the D—a Detroit non-profit centered around urban beekeeping— we considered how we can embed beekeeping and care for pollinators into site considerations. We wield landscaping as an architecture, with pollinator flora creating architectural conditions of varying degrees of privacy, while simultaneously serving non-human earthlings.