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Current living conditions are often challenged by inflexible and non-adaptive economic principles, traditional marketing schemes, outdated masterplans, and inadequate zoning regulations.

The Tic Tac Toe studio investigated the urban conditions through the lenses of how we live in the urban context - from the unit to the street to the neighborhood. Demographic changes, new ways of working and living, and a desire for more active and cultural urban space requires differentiated and inclusive approaches to the planning and design of contemporary housing.

This studio offered the opportunity to develop and test alternative concepts for housing through the creation of environments that question normative urban routines and housing typologies.

Student teams of three explicitly explored how novel programmatic urban elements and their aggregations may contribute to vibrant and resilient housing qualities.

The ten-acre site around the historic Fisher Body Plant #21 in Detroit resembled an ideal testing ground for urban, architectural and social interdependencies in a larger scale.