SO-IL: In Depth: Urban Domesticities Today [Paperback]

The award-winning Brooklyn architecture studio challenging the status quo of urban housing

For over a decade, Brooklyn-based architecture firm SOIL has been envisioning houses and other projects in between and adjacent to domestic spaces. Reflecting on the state of housing design today, often constrained by pressures of production, SOIL approaches these projects with generous experimentation. They adapt and adjust the architectural and physical body languages of domesticity while operating through the framing and occupation of liminal spaces. The projects featured in In Depthrepresent SO-ILs attempt to hack the codes, cores, courts and corridors; to stretch and inhabit inefficiencies; to turn the old stones and bring fragments of buried treasures from the past into the present; to question if housing for all should be the yardstick for the shelters of our souls; and to ask the future generations what kind of home we should design for them.

SO-ILs impressive talent is to limbo beneath the bureaucracy, stretching loopholes and exploiting zoning quirks, to carve out space for architecture.The book redefines domesticity as an active and shared experience and examines how architects can address pressing urban challenges such as affordability, density, and sustainability.