Inhabiting Linearity

Mixed-Use Apartment Housing

Woodbury University | Studio 3A | Instructor: Louis Molina | Venice Beach, California | Fall 2020

For the fall semester of 2020 the studio considers the impact of climate change and social justice on the design of affordable housing in Venice, California. This studio explores the means by which the commons, an historically redolent concept of community, may activate both the social and climatological space of housing. As much of a place as a unifying concept, the commons describes both the spaces and ideas we hold in common. How might we reconstruct the commons in an era of climate injustice and economic disparity? The first assignment of this studio involved developing a dwelling space inspired by a nest from nature. I decided to do mine on mud dauber wasps, and as a result from my research, I explored themes of linearity, clustering and agglomeration, and how one can inhabit these spaces and circulate through them. This caused myself to explore a series of apertures and how I can use this method to frame views and direct light into a space.