STUDENT
Krzysztof Lower
PROFESSORS
Adam Fure, Tess Clancy
This intergenerational housing scheme for a sprawling suburban neighborhood stitches together youths’ delight in fashion and thrifting and elders’ devotion to mending and craft arts. Patchwork interventions are modest and humble to the existing fabric of the neighborhood, somewhere between an ADU and a spare bedroom. Collective, enclosed spaces emerge between patchwork dwellings, and existing commercial structures adapt to the textile scheme affording common labor spaces, a display gallery, and retail storefronts. Both literal and figurative, the textile scheme takes the form of quilted partitions, building insulation, and entrepreneurial opportunities; as well as historical record, cultural education, and intergenerational values.