little pink houses for you and me....

So not to be post-post modern about this, I think one of the requirements of my vertical housing development is for the individual to feel a tangible sense of ownership of their home; it must be identifiable from the outside. In my vertical development I am shamelessly inserting the iconographic image of the traditional gable-roofed home. Ridiculous? Maybe. Ridiculous not to do this? Yes. The point must be expressed though.

In other developments I have been exploring tensegrity structure because it may be installed very quickly and the parts can be made on an assembly line. Areas on the ground surrounding the construction are also relatively undisturbed; particularly important in Detroit not for people or business (there really isn't much to be disturbed) but roadways. If you close a road in Detroit it's big business; if you tear down a home it's no big deal aparently. Viewing a tensile structure in the way that I am has the downfall of being difficult to work with in terms of obstructions from the structure itself, but space here really isn't an issue; the structure is inexpensive and so is the real estate.