Metacourses

Following the example of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates, this studio will scavenge San Francisco for scraps—private urban voids to be appropriated and reimagined for public use. If a lot cannot be monetized as “real” estate, what alternate forms of domesticity might slip into the cracks? By cataloging, documenting, and designing in between found conditions of the city, students will project urban fictions—a collective archipelago of residual vacant properties turned common domestic space. The research studio format will enable students to identify typological opportunities in gaps of the urban fabric, into which to propose a network of architectural-scale interventions that seek to externalize domesticity from wash facilities to collective kitchens.