Client Woodbury University
Instructor Joshua Stein
Location Los Angeles, CA | Gardena + Koreatown
Program Residential; Mobile Homes
*B.Arch Degree Project
We have a problem of housing people that is a result of slow and brittle housing infrastructure. This infrastructure doesn’t properly engage the stakeholders and agents, and also makes the mistake of linking land ownership to home ownership. Homeownership is critical to people having agency over their environments, and is also a thing we can continue to make for as long as we need it. We can’t make additional terrain, which is a limited resource that we need to share as a society.
By having a part in the process, people gain agency, which leaves an impact on the environment. This accumulates into community, which can emerge at many different scales; the community of the family, the neighborhood, the town or city, and so on. These manifest as the rules, regulations, and culture that act as a structural matrix for how we live.
