De/Motown

What if Detroit, with it’s depopulated suburban neighborhoods and decaying infrastructure, were to contract, intentionally, into a series of nodes, built around existing areas of massive bulk — factories, business districts, mega-malls? We explore how urban living might look if the Detroit population were to reoccupy the skyscraper graveyard of the central business district. Stacking industrial, commercial, residential, and agricultural functions into these towers and connecting them at multiple levels with viaducts. The motor city ceases to need cars in this ultra-dense urban center.

This project won first place in the ThinkSpace “Urban Borders” competition sponsored by the Zagreb Society of Architects .