Queer Identity Towards Mutualism
A design for a collective in South Beach, Miami, utilizes programmatic organization as a tool to shape social interaction. By choreographing a mix of units, workspaces, communal kitchens, and shared terraces, the design arranges a queer economy of care that fosters both transparency and everyday negotiation. Drawing on Michael Warner’s framing that “queer struggles aim not just at inclusion but at a rethinking of the world’s arrangements,” the architecture opposes rainbow capitalism by physically fostering interdependence. Cross-laminated timber construction anchors this new social framework in sustainable material logic, connecting it to Florida’s native pine forests.
Arc 509 | Individual Project | Fall 2023
