Housing as an Ecology of Care: From Blank Type to Dwelling

Harvard GSD

This studio explores housing as an ecology of care, a framework that understands architecture as a relational practice embedded in networks of interdependence among people, species, systems, and time. In this view, a multi-story residential building is a place to live as well as to heal, connect, and coexist—a dwelling for human and nonhuman life.We will apply this lens to the transformation of an existing department store, the GALERIA Berlin Hermannplatz, an example of a building type that…