6th Street House

Led by Professor Mike Christenson, this studio course dissected Morphosis’ 6th Street House. It presented the project in a vacuum: no site or other physical boundaries were given.

In the studio, students were tasked with deconstructing the tangible oeuvre that, in essence, gave origin to this project. A series of industrial remains, reused as residential artifacts, were iterated upon as drawings, models, collages, imprints. Students were then tasked with exchanging work with one another, and thus beginning a new process of iteration: an addition here, a subtraction there. This investigation gave form to a personal study in thresholds, experience, boundaries, and memory.

My analysis of the 6th Street House yielded 126 models. My work for this studio was published in Professor Christenson’s 2015 book “Beginning Design Technology”.