Nicole Tooley

“The Conservation Co-Op”

This cooperative house uses sight as a way to prompt spontaneous conversation among its eight house members. Designed in conversation with Johnston Marklee’s Vault House, but for a reimagined program and mid-density urban site in northern North America, this co-op adopts the language of a vista as a tool to draw inhabitants towards the frame’s subject. While Vault House prioritizes a singular exterior vista that creates a unique relationship between inhabitants and site, this project imagines bringing the vista to the inside—creating opportunities for interactions between fellow housemates.