MUD 722 - WINTER 2025
STUDENTS
David Vega, Nihkil Rakesh
PROFESSOR
Cyrus Peñarroyo
PERMADetroit re-imagines the Uof M's UMCI innovation district development as a living computational ecology, where cooperative technologies evolve from platforms of exchange into infrastructures of socio-ecological regeneration in downtown Detroit. Organized through courtyard clusters linking labs, housing, and public space, the project proposes mutually beneficial relationships between research, community, and landscape.
Here, lab economies are envisioned as civic engines—subsidizing public amenities, housing, and institutions through shared resource ecologies. By coupling adaptive reuse, regenerative material systems, and emergent building codes, the proposal treats construction itself as innovation: a framework for care, reciprocity, and resilient urban life shaped through collective growth.