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Connection/Disconnection

As the boundary between work and home disappears; issues with loneliness and physical and/or social isolation are rising. Moreover, in an increasingly digitally connected environment, people can escape from their surroundings via their phones which amplifies this sense of distance from the physical. Our primary focus was to create a new type of live/work unit which addresses contemporary modes of individual production and the omnipresence of digitally connected life in urban America.

We chose to take on an extreme case with our community by providing housing for social media influencers and content creators. This work is characterized by long hours spent in isolation planning, capturing, and editing content. This allowed us to tackle issues that we feel are neglected in housing and should be addressed in terms of how technology has changed the way we live, especially how the meaning of public and private space has been transformed in the Information Age. Our overarching concept was to design a building that connects people to one another physically as well as encouraging occasional disconnection from the digital environment.