ARCH 672 Propositions 34

Living in EARTH

Xuetong Zhai and Ke Xu
Michael Kennedy
The project, located in a low residential area at the corner of Ash Street and 14th street in Detroit, is planned to develop a commercial street and eco corridors near the site in the future. Led by the site conditions, we explore the spatial relationship between mothership and satellite, work and life by playing with the combination of pattern language to create both privacy and connectivity in a community. By digging the rammed earth locally as our core material, we designed a sunken garden for the Ash street green corridor. As well as wall thickness change in section, the intimacy…