Single Family Skyscraper
Daniel Haidermota
The nuclear families wanted an urban suburban home. They wanted a big garden and a fence (maybe a boundary wall too). We looked around but there was no space. So we looked up. A vertical villa in a hyperdense city. For a garden and for...well who knows what else they had in mind.
How many floors? At least four hundred, maybe two thousand and two. How many houses? Too many, they all wanted one. And soon enough, the suburbs wanted some too.
With sincere and lawful intentions we accidentally stretched the rules for house quite thin. So thin in fact that the house, in its entirety, needed to be drawn as a single line. The meaning of line was stretched, if not broken. At once, line had become a representation of plane, surface, volume and building.