Living Systems

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Individual Project | Spring 2021 | Adv. Des. II

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Living systems are defined as ecologies of interacting living and non-living entities that symbiotically sustain life and energy flows. Perpetual flows of air, light, and matter sustain an organism’s basic needs for living. To provide and expand on basic human needs, communities rely on their ability to access basic resources (air, water, food, shelter), however current cities do not provide adequate access to these resources for all populates. Transferring and sharing energy and resources between buildings is one way to begin to address problems in urban contexts.

The subject of geography is used to understand “living systems” as layered systems of parts and wholes. Through this understanding of parts to-whole relationships, this project proposes a domestic housing system where space is compressed, and reorganized to facilitate adjacencies for system optimization and sharing.

This system is then situated near Los Angeles’s Perishing Square to provide closeness to transportation routes and more resources not locally provided.