Point, Line, and Surface reframes adaptive reuse as a tool for urban imagination and cultural regeneration in Detroit. Drawing from the speculative vision of Detroit 1990: An Urban Design Concept for the Inner City, the project explores how elemental architectural gestures—point, line, surface—can catalyze new patterns of inhabitation, exchange, and collective identity. Developed through an independent, site-driven inquiry, the design transforms a vacant industrial block into a layered civic landscape where circulation paths, market structures, and material interventions foster both continuity and reinvention. Rooted in Detroit’s complex history yet inspired by its utopic possibilities, Point, Line, and Surface proposes architecture as an active medium for shaping more for self-sustaining urban futures.
Instructor: Tom Hartman
Studio: Spring 2024 (Undergrad)