When we were approached by the Crystal Bridges Museum to do a housing prototype for the ‘Architecture at Home’ exhibit we thought about the lessons learned from our exploration into building typologies. We have learned that building typologies are only one piece of a complex puzzle, and our goal for the exhibit turned to exposing the complex Housing System.
Concurrently with the ‘prototype’ we developed collages and an interactive website www.storiesabouthousing.com representing the housing system with its basic subsystems—land acquisition, financing, permitting, and construction—and what we envision a more flexible housing system should be.
Our goal with this living journal is to engage with and learn from people’s stories about housing.