PROJECTS
Resonance: A Community Space
Movements, Maps, Mail
This studio is driven by physical processes that encourage its students to increase their sensitivity to site, community, and program, and works through prompting them to develop robust narratives about interventions on an existing building for an established client; the United States Postal Service.
Students began by tracing movement at two indexical extremes:
1. global logistics — how do we begin to understand the movements, coordinations, and energies that exist beyond the reach of our immediate perception, leaving their lasting marks across the globe?
2. granular attributes of site — what tools and methods can we use to trace, catalogue, and increase our perception to produce intimate readings of existing immediate conditions?
This narrative research frame positions and builds up each student’s perceptions and sensitivities conditioning the redesign of an existing USPS in East Village, Detroit, both in terms of its physical architectural make-up and through bringing programmatic additions which grapple with ecological anxieties and impacts to the fore.