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Sponge Urbanism

LOCATION

Detroit, Michigan

YEAR

2011

YEAR

2011

OVERVIEW

Conceived as a “minor” plan, Sponge Urbanism transforms the platted organization of Detroit into a multidirectional one that interrelates a lower density of building with an expanded field of land use. Extending the practices that residents already use to manage their transforming landscape and urban conditions, the plan is an open document that can be adapted in pieces by individual actors. Drawing techniques and diagrams combine to construct a view that, while impossible, makes visible the sponge-like order.

(With SCHAUM/SHIEH)

Conceived as a “minor” plan, Sponge Urbanism transforms the platted organization of Detroit into a multidirectional one that interrelates a lower density of building with an expanded field of land use. Extending the practices that residents already use to manage their transforming landscape and urban conditions, the plan is an open document that can be adapted in pieces by individual actors. Drawing techniques and diagrams combine to construct a view that, while impossible, makes visible the sponge-like order.

(With SCHAUM/SHIEH)

Conceived as a “minor” plan, Sponge Urbanism transforms the platted organization of Detroit into a multidirectional one that interrelates a lower density of building with an expanded field of land use. Extending the practices that residents already use to manage their transforming landscape and urban conditions, the plan is an open document that can be adapted in pieces by individual actors. Drawing techniques and diagrams combine to construct a view that, while impossible, makes visible the sponge-like order.

(With SCHAUM/SHIEH)

Conceived as a “minor” plan, Sponge Urbanism transforms the platted organization of Detroit into a multidirectional one that interrelates a lower density of building with an expanded field of land use. Extending the practices that residents already use to manage their transforming landscape and urban conditions, the plan is an open document that can be adapted in pieces by individual actors. Drawing techniques and diagrams combine to construct a view that, while impossible, makes visible the sponge-like order.

(With SCHAUM/SHIEH)

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder. eds. Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2021): 200, 204.

Inscriptions; Invited Group Exhibition, Druker Design Gallery, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA, 2018.

Rosalyne Shieh and Troy Schaum, “Sponge Urbanism,” Architecture is All Over, Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter, eds. (Columbia University Press, 2017): 136–148.

Cities Methodologies 2012, Exhibition, Slade Gallery, University College London, London UK, 2012.

Project Team

Troy Schaum
Rosalyne Shieh

Project Team

Troy Schaum
Rosalyne Shieh

Project Team

Troy Schaum
Rosalyne Shieh