Extraordinary Methods In Architecture | Super Habitats 2080

Course Summary

The unprecedented growth of the urban population and climate change have underscored the urgency of new design research that responds to the ever-increasing demand for innovative and sustainable housing solutions. The work resulted in this area is at once exciting and overwhelming for its optimism, if justified, in its call for major shifts in both design approaches and construction techniques. Over the past decades architects and planners have been ruthless to reach innovative housing design that is responsive to economic, cultural, and sociopolitical conditions as well as environmentally sustainable.

The Super Habitats 2080 studio pursues this hypothesis in three ways, in particular, the studio looked at geometrical permutations, phenotypes, genetics, and other outcomes of evolutionary processes that have the potential to both define and imply form. The studio tackled the speculative design of the future house 2080 through the development of a new suburbia. Additionally, the studio examined how the application of modern building technology can contribute to future housing mass customization. Various techniques mastered in previous modules are used to extend the process as organizational principle to other aspects of the project (not only architectural style but also economics, engineering, structure, ecology, and sustainability).