DO[NATION] speculates the future of cities and architecture by critiquing the exasperating rate of overconsumption and overproduction of everyday objects in the world. It imagines the start of a community that counteracts the single-use of objects and their frivolous discard once they have been exhausted of their utility value. The thesis explores a new form of engagement with domestic waste through the lens of communal living, collaborative conservation, and conscious (deliberative) consumption and resue.
Excess, Collection, Reuse and Intentional Communities are themes that this project utilizes in making donated domestic waste seem desirable for usage again. Investigating the donation center model through these lenses, the results culminated in viewing the donation center as an intentional community based on a system of logistics that deals with excess through collections and encourages the reuse of donated goods.
The logistics of flows and networks act as the literal and figurative infrastructures of the community. It is physically embodied by a machine. The machine works as a function, it inputs donated objects that can come from the centers or the same community, and outputs domestic spaces.
In collaboration with Isabella Calidonio Stechmann
This project was awarded a Citation in Excellence in Thesis Design in 2020
You may also read about it at Archinect Magazine and Suckerpunch
Excess, Collection, Reuse and Intentional Communities are themes that this project utilizes in making donated domestic waste seem desirable for usage again. Investigating the donation center model through these lenses, the results culminated in viewing the donation center as an intentional community based on a system of logistics that deals with excess through collections and encourages the reuse of donated goods.
The logistics of flows and networks act as the literal and figurative infrastructures of the community. It is physically embodied by a machine. The machine works as a function, it inputs donated objects that can come from the centers or the same community, and outputs domestic spaces.
In collaboration with Isabella Calidonio Stechmann
This project was awarded a Citation in Excellence in Thesis Design in 2020
You may also read about it at Archinect Magazine and Suckerpunch