Multi-generational Housing
During class this week I couldn't help but think of multi-generational housing. It is a type of missing middle housing– housing that is more affordable than market rate housing but is typically not produced or readily available. I started to think of how this type of housing is not usually ‘designed’ by professionals. It is just molded/created by the family. This relates back to Walter Segal’s DIY housing that we discussed in class last week. Unless we start designing for multi-generational households, which probably wouldn't be affordable for these families anyway, this type of housing would benefit from having a kind of updated DIY kit that is designed to allow these families to continue to expand their home as needed.
That’s a great point, and a great callback to some of the topics we covered in Dustin’s studio last semester for the Poe Mill site. I think a lot of those middle housing typologies like you said are closer to what we’d consider tactical instead of strategic. Everyday life and people who aren’t architects can still shape architecture. And because it may not be affordable, architect’s efforts to address those typologies should be systemic rather than custom (unless we consider mass customization, which is a whole other tangent).
ReplyDeleteKayla, this is a really interesting point. I like that you brought up Walter Segal's DIY housing project. I wonder if there's a way to incorporate the ideas that we discussed with SANAA's Moriyama house with a DIY multi-generational housing. In other words, could boxes of individual programs be added over time as needed?
ReplyDeleteKayla, I love the idea of DIY multi generational housing and think it should be as strategy we use in the future as architects to provide housing for all.
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