Co-Op Interieur
Automative Living Mechanism
Site: Port 106 Industrial Center, Seattle, MA
Automative Living Mechanism
Site: Port 106 Industrial Center, Seattle, MA
Instructor: Carlos Jimenez
Rice Graduate Thesis
Today, our city is developed based on a clear distinction between workplace and housing. This dichotomy reinforces the framework of the 9-5 schedule, narrowing down the possibilities of how people live and work. At the same time, the increasingly sophisticated digital infrastructure has suggested an overlap between work and live. All kinds of social media and professional software has penetrated the barrier between the workplace and housing.
The distinction between the realm of working, living and leisure seems to collapse into common ground. While the boundary between work, live and leisure becomes more and more blurred and indistinguishable, cities continue to be developed around a clear distinction between workplace and housing. Under such a circumstance, new spatial composition and typology based on the increasingly ambiguous boundary is in demand.
Therefore, the thesis aims to propose a prototype for the abandoned warehouses to be converted to a mixed-use territory of collaborative living, within which work, live and leisure happens simultaneously. Situated specifically in the abandoned warehouses, the industrial building is re-adapted into a new urban infrastructure which encourages the nomadic and uprooted lifestyle, so as to facilitate the deterritorialization.
