Video of shows iconic skeleton of the model building as it grows for the MASTERcrit 2017.

The aim of MASTERcrit 2017 was to rethink concepts of collectivity for new housing strategies. To this end students explored themes surrounding intimacy and privacy between the individuals and the communal, between mine, yours and ours, between retreat and engagement, between personal tastes and shared aesthetics.

What is shared and what is separated? Garden, roof, balcony, bathroom, kitchen, recreation, bedroom, etc. These new logistics of sharing also need to acknowledge the role of software in the transformation of urban infrastructures.

As a case study to test these ideas the workshop took on Mies van der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive apartments (860/880 Lakeshore Drive) in Chicago. The buildings were “unmade” and “erased” in order to then reassemble or “unbecome” new architectural proposals for future housing. Through models and drawings students proposed new relational organizations within the iconic skeleton of the building as well as on its immediate site.