Homewood Commons

Feb 1

Written By Tracy Meng

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN

Project Overview

Role: Project Designer, Architectural Designer

Type: Academic work, course work, individual work, architecture

Team member: Elise Wang

Program: Social housing, Participatory design

Site: Homewood, Pittsburgh, PA

Timeline: September 2021 - December 2021

Description

Through adaptive reuse of vacant buildings and existing materials, we aim to repair and care for the existing underutilized buildings to establish an open-participatory and temporal framework.

***Ikea Manual: New attached to Existing***

Main Concepts

Labor vs. Materials vs. Time

Day in the life of Simone

***Narration of a Typical Homewood Resident***

Commoning

Under the broader framework of commoning, we propose a cooperative ownership model for both the housing and the land. We looked at the housing component of the system that reimagines the social relations of collective living and working

Tracy Meng