Level Up: A Post-Industrial Playscape

ARCH 672 Propositions 34

Render of kids playing in front of architectural building

Level Up responds to Ann Arbor’s immediate need for affordable multi-family housing. The project utilizes non-traditional housing aggregation, pulling ideas from more radical cooperative housing models and modifying them to fit the more family-friendly “cluster” – three single-family apartment units per floor arrayed around a common living space, dubbed the “mudroom,” established a model for shared living space that enables thresholds of privacy that are essential for families. Level Up’s attitude toward the cluster repeats in a logical progression of scale from units to building to site. Two clusters aggregate to form one building. Four buildings are placed across the…