Idea by
Diana Cristobal Olave, Maria Esnaola Cano, Alicia Hernanz Perez, Gonzalo J Lopez Garrido, Alfonso Simelio Jurado and Tania Oramas Dorta.
Knitknot architecture
http://www.knitknotarchitecture.com
Call for ideas 2019
The Millennials’ Suburbia
The Millennials’ Suburbia
- Systemic changes
Since 1945, the suburbs have been a contested site of struggle within architecture debates. What once was a typology for returning veterans that reinforced racial segregation and conjured visions of traditional family life and idyllic domesticity, also became the site for counter-normative design experiments. Nowadays, almost 50 years after Scott Brown and Venturi’s controversial studio “Learning from Levittown,” the suburbs are again in the forefront of architectural debates—albeit for a very different reason. In the United States, the housing bubble is radically shifting the domestic dreams of the millennial generation, and redirecting them again to the suburbia. In Europe, the suburbs reproduce the serious challenges that European integration face nowadays: from the refugee and migrant crisis to youth unemployment. This project looks at the spatial outcomes of these systemic economic and social changes, reimagining a new form of collectivity that emerges out of economic necessity.
The Millennials’ Suburbia
The Millennials’ Suburbia
- Systemic changes
Since 1945, the suburbs have been a contested site of struggle within architecture debates. What once was a typology for returning veterans that reinforced racial segregation and conjured visions of traditional family life and idyllic domesticity, also became the site for counter-normative design experiments. Nowadays, almost 50 years after Scott Brown and Venturi’s controversial studio “Learning from Levittown,” the suburbs are again in the forefront of architectural debates—albeit for a very different reason. In the United States, the housing bubble is radically shifting the domestic dreams of the millennial generation, and redirecting them again to the suburbia. In Europe, the suburbs reproduce the serious challenges that European integration face nowadays: from the refugee and migrant crisis to youth unemployment. This project looks at the spatial outcomes of these systemic economic and social changes, reimagining a new form of collectivity that emerges out of economic necessity.