Project Description
This project is a formal, spatial, and typological investigation into affordable housing in Milwaukee. Starting from the premise that affordable housing requires local solutions not only institutionally but also formally, spatially, and typologically, this project will document the contemporary state of housing in Milwaukee via archival and public records research, site visits, mapping, interviews, field measurements, and drawing, in an effort to identify viable affordable housing strategies and typologies for the present and future of the city.
Tasks and Responsibilites
Student tasks include:
1. Research: Explore and catalog (in the forms of maps, diagrams, and timelines) current and historic zoning data that influence housing development in Milwaukee. Working from a neighborhood map of Milwaukee and using Google Earth and GIS tools, identify a research radius for in-person site visits, additional research, and documentation.
2. Travel & site visits: Once a research radius has been identified, visit several neighborhoods around the city to obtain photographic documentation of the housing stock in place with the goal to create the beginnings of a catalog of Milwaukee housing typologies that includes diagrammatic drawings (plans and elevations), with the goal of creating a taxonomy of these typologies.
3. Further research & production: Once a preliminary taxonomy has been identified, create plans, sections, and elevations of paradigmatic examples of each typology either by assembling and redrawing existing plans or taking field measurements and creating measured drawings.