Term: Fall 2019
Professor: Maged Guerguis
Program: Residential, Community Planning
Site: Oak Ridge, TN
Professor: Maged Guerguis
Program: Residential, Community Planning
Site: Oak Ridge, TN
The 21st century holds a plethora of opportunities to improve multiple aspects of design across the globe. A major focus in architecture today is sustainability and LEED certification, but Super Habitats 2080 seeks to dothis and much more. Copy-paste, cookie cutter design can be seen permeating neighborhoods throughout the US. To address this, the Super Habitats 2080 project sought to merge technologies in architecture and genetics to maintain interest in sustainable design and efficient construction all while preventing saturation of the housing industry with repetative architecture.
60 years ago, architects created some of the most influential works of the 20th century in an attempt to look forward 60 years in the future. With Super Habitats 2080, we attempt to look forward another 60 years from 2020 to change the way people think about the typical neighborhood. Rather than reinventing the well, architectural precedents, influential to the 20th century, were used to determine the first of many iterations that would make up a genealogy for housing design. This genealogy would eventually become the super habitat of 2080.
60 years ago, architects created some of the most influential works of the 20th century in an attempt to look forward 60 years in the future. With Super Habitats 2080, we attempt to look forward another 60 years from 2020 to change the way people think about the typical neighborhood. Rather than reinventing the well, architectural precedents, influential to the 20th century, were used to determine the first of many iterations that would make up a genealogy for housing design. This genealogy would eventually become the super habitat of 2080.
