Evolving Community

Abstract

Establishing a residence is an ongoing event for most. Individuals will have multiple spaces that they inhabit during their lifetime. They move from one location to another due to a variety of different influences and occurrences. In making objects adaptable they can become bland and begin to lack character or an identifiable identity different from that of another. How can an adaptable housing unit be created as to where each unit is distinctly different from the rest. Does this individuality lie in material use, unit shape and size? Does a modular building or prefabricated building lie in the answer? In an urban environment where land comes at a premium how do you make these units so that they can interact with one another and the existing infrastructure of the city? Intrinstly a mobile lifestyle contradicts community. People want a sense of permance as ~ell as that ability and freedom to move as they want or need to. How can a sense of community be instilled into those of a nomiadic lifestyle?