Author(s): Heather Ligler
Rowhouse Redux, an undergraduate design and research studio, focused on engaging the logic of housing typologies and their urban implications toward regenerative design proposals for the refabrication of an existing block of row houses in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A primary basis of the studio was a motivation to learn to think computationally to develop resourceful, affordable housing models through the imaginative transformation of building stock in lieu of demolition, while a secondary interest was to investigate how a framework of analysis-synthesis feedback loops would reinforce a move from linear to circular design processes in the studio. The computational thinking embraced by the studio is derived from the shape grammar discourse and its emphasis on spatial relationships as procedural generators for rule-based design.
Volume Editors
Reed Kroloff & Francisco J. RodrÃguez-Suárez
ISBN
978-1-944214-52-4