A UNIVERSAL BODY; for living in

The womb is a universal vessel; the organ that first provides, nourishes and shelters human life.

Viewing the city as a single grotesque body, my major project speculates a new universality through a model of Universal Basic Housing. It forms new social conditions both architectural and human, with an infinitely diverse provision of domestic space.

I investigate through history in search for an alternate universality.

What are the alternate trajectories that hold for the city if history was erased up to Pre Neolithic times? How would this affect housing?

What would it be to abolish the social welfare program and provide basic housing and household needs to the population?

A single grotesque body which is purely internalized and composed of entirely the domestic space. The body is strange but familiar. Romanticized. It is infinitely diverse, the new urban organs provide different possibilities and permeation of social conditions. It enables the occupants to participate in public life, idiosyncratic behaviour in its function.

The Universal body is the transformation of architecture to a new relevance, an alternate universality which rebuilds the city, succeeded by the making of architecture that enables rather than exists.

It is a body for living in.