The city grows and we crowd into it, growing ever closer together. We look for a home, but find little deserving of that name. We pay our deposit and an architect retreats to the studio, designing an average apartment building for the average consumer.  We feel little connection to this place, so our roots are shallow. Our urban life becomes a study in involuntary compromise – we reshape our lives to fit the box we live in. 

This is not the only way.

Instead, we can imagine a system of dynamic feedback: we tell the architect about our lives, and we see our home grow in response. We engage with cutting edge technologies – parametric design, large-scale data collection, immersive 3D representation – not for their own sake, but in our service. We engage in productive dialogue – with the architect, with our new neighbours, and with ourselves – about our housing needs and desires. We make compromises, but voluntary, informed compromises.  We grow a community, and plant our roots deeply. 

Your High-rise Home is a prototype of this system – a schematic design process incorporating direct, individual feedback from residents at all stages, to increase choice and communal identity in high density housing.

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