Materialities of Care

The Nest

Location : Fremont, California

Professor : Adam Marcus

Student Team : Aditya Kosman, Skyler Cheng

The project “Nests” intertwines residential space for hummingbirds, carpenter bees, and humans. The studio explores the use of rammed earth as the main material in order to generate strategies for

“Nests” lies in the suburban neighborhood of Fremont by Alameda creek, it connects two streets while surrounded by fenced single-family homes. The aim of this project is to create a connection and a shared space through this interspecies residential space and to encourage the co-habitation between humans and non-humans. The typology of this project is essentially a reversed and twisted dingbat, transforming the isolated units into a socially and environmentally connected multi-living space. The project introduces a single room occupancy typology in response to the site designed for