"The Cloud" (Housing Project)

"The Cloud" (Housing Project)

January 12, 2019

ARCH 672 System studio, University of Michigan, 2019

Team work Collaborator: Nora Begin, Zhenya Li

Project Location: Eastern Market, Detroit


For system' s housing project, we proposed an elevated massing above historical site. The idea of “cloud” was trying to create a life in the sky, a soft, porous and mysterious cloud above the public plaza at the ground. The facade was also designed on the idea of cloud, which made by three layers of opaque polycarbonate panels to blur the massing boundary, bring the ambiguity of the scale and dematerialization of the envelope.


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