“HI - LO (life affirming Housing in Detroit)” 

Detroit is experiencing an unparalleled housing demand, creating opportunities to develop new residential models for an increasingly diverse population. Only innovative and forward-looking housing typologies and planning tools can address the changing demands on the living environment.

Housing, however, experiences new opportunities by innovative urban codes, new adaptive economic principles and marketing schemes, creative masterplans and zoning regulations.

HI-LO studio looks at new opportunities of applying the principles of the ‘Form-Based-Code’ in the Brush Park Neighborhood in Detroit. Working within a vibrant urban context, the studio explores urban density through the lenses of diversity and domesticity. Demographic changes, new ways of working and living, and a desire for active, green urban space require differentiated and inclusive approaches to the planning and design of contemporary housing.

This studio takes the opportunity to develop and test alternative concepts for housing through the creation of environments that question normative urban routines and housing typologies.

The projects react to new and emerging structures of habitation, explore a variety of innovative housing models and suggest catalytic, inclusive, and transformative urban spaces.