Critic: Marc Tsurumaki
In Collaboration With Michael Hoehn
The Universal Assembly Engine is a self-proliferating colony, embodying an operational and ownership model in which residents are workers, and workers are residents.
Our project proposes a new way of life, made possible through the reimagining of conventional modes of circulation. The typical domestic unit becomes vertically distributed. A single tower contains 6 dwelling spaces, a study, a dining area, a kitchen, bathroom, lounge, and storage space.
Inhabitation produces form. Therefore, form follows life. The arrangement of program is then arrayed horizontally and as the needs of the occupants change, so do the towers.
The inherent scarcity of spaces creates a need for movement. Spatial efficiency generates circulational excess.
A symbiotic relationship between people and structure must be assumed as both the building and its inhabitants are subjects and objects simultaneously. One cannot exist without the other. As one grows, so does the other. Over time the project will grow from the central factory reproducing itself endlessly, consuming the city, thereby reengineering everyday life indefinitely.
